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Abstract
Pricking one cotyledon of young Bidens pilosus plants induces rapid inhibition of hypocotyl growth, essentially in its middle portion. Analysis of soluble peroxidases indicates rapid changes (increase of activity) in basic isoenzymes followed by more progressive enhancement of the acidic ones. Pretreatment of the plants with lithium prevents the inhibition of elongation due to pricking as well as the peroxidase changes. The phenomenon is similar to the previously described thigmomorphogenetic process in Bryonia dioica.Entities:
Year: 1981 PMID: 16661885 PMCID: PMC425885 DOI: 10.1104/pp.68.1.41
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Plant Physiol ISSN: 0032-0889 Impact factor: 8.340