Model for Variable Light Sensitivity in Imbibed Dark-Dormant Seeds

  • Duke S
  • Egley G
  • Reger B
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The level of light-induced germination of the seed of common purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) and curly dock (Rumex crispus L.) changes with dark incubation time prior to brief, low energy, red light treatment. The rate at which phytochrome-far red-absorbing form (Pfr) acts in the light-induced population of seeds was measured by quantitating per cent reversals of the red light effect with saturating far red light exposures at successive times after the red light exposure. A linear positive correlation was found between this rate and the final germination level. These results are compatible with a model involving changing levels, during dark incubation, of a component with which Pfr interacts. In this model, germination is initiated after attainment of a certain level of interaction between Pfr and this component. These findings also support the view that the Pfr to Pr decay rate constant and total phytochrome level are stable during dark incubation.

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Duke, S. O., Egley, G. H., & Reger, B. J. (1977). Model for Variable Light Sensitivity in Imbibed Dark-Dormant Seeds. Plant Physiology, 59(2), 244–249. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.59.2.244

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