The role of light in the plants world

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The ecological hazard of artificial lighting in greenhouses

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The level of phyA in Pharbitis nil Chois during the photoperiodic flower induction

The aim of this work was to determine if there is any relationship between an endogenous phyA level and photoperiodic flower induction. The level of phyA was characterised with polyclonal antibodies directed to phyA from pea. At first it was detected that phyA level is predominant in cotyledons, whereas in roots and stems the concentration of labile phytochrome is rather low. So cotyledons were used for later experiments. In these cotyledons exposed to light illumination a rapid destruction of phyA has been observed. The loss of extractable phyA chromoprotein occurs already after 60 min of irradiation. <em>Pharbitis nil</em> is a short-day plant and a single 16-hours-long dark period is fully inductive. We assessed that phyA level is extremely low during a long inductive night and an immunodetectable phytochrome appears only after 24 hours of darkness. The obtained results suggest that labile phytochrome is not taking part in the direct control of the photoperiodic flower induction.

The effect of exogenous acetylcholine and other cholinergic agents on photoperiodic flower induction of Pharbitis nil

Exogenous acetylcholine (ACh), acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors, as well as agonists and antagonists of ACh receptors applied on the cotyledons of 5-day-old seedlings of <em>Pharbitis nil</em> during a 16-hour long inductive night or during a 12-hour long subinductive night, do not essentially influence the flower bud formation. Also the application of above mentioned substances to the seedlings growing under the conditions of 72 hours of darkness, 24 hours of light and then 24 hours of darkness does not influence in an essential way flowering of <em>P. nil</em>. On the other hand, applying these substances on the cotyledons of <em>P. nil</em> during 24-hour-long inductive night, preceded by 72 hours of darkness and then 24 hours of light of lowered intensity finished by 15-minute-long impulse of far red light which inhibit flowering, caused the reversion of the effect of far red light irradiation and stimulated the flowering. The obtained results suggest that endogenous system ACh/AChE could participate in the mechanism of a phytochrome controlled flowering of short day plants.

Ethylene in the control of photoperiodic flower induction in Pharbitis nil Chois.

The content of endogenous ethylene in the seedlings of <em>Pharbitis nil</em> subjected to 16-hour long inductive night is low during the first half of a dark period, then it increases considerably in the second half of the night. Ethrel, the compound releasing ethylene, applied to the cotyledons of the seedlings, increases the amount of endogenous ethylene in them and at the same time inhibits the flowering, especially when ethrel was applied during the first half of an inductive night, when the content of endogenous ethylene in the seedlings is low. The auxin, inhibiting the flowering of <em>Pharbitis</em>, causes at the same time the increase in the production of endogenous ethylene. PCIB, an inhibitor of auxin action reverses the inhibiting influence of ethrel on flowering. On the other hand the combined application of ethrel and TIBA, the inhibitor of auxin polar transport, causes the increase of the flowering inhibition. CoCl₂, the inhibitor of ethylene biosynthesis, and AgNO₃, the inhibitor of ethylene action, reverse partly the inhibiting influence of auxin. It suggests that ethylene could take part in auxininhibition of flowering. The all obtained results seem to suggest the participation of ethylene in the control of the flower photoperiodic induction.

Labile phytochrome and photoperiodic flower induction in Pharbitis nil Chois. The irreversible phytochrome hypothesis

Seedlings of <i>Pharbitis nil</i> cultivated under non-inductive conditions of white light were subjected to generative induction applying one 16-hour-long period of inductive night. During the eighth hour the night was interrupted with 1 min of red light pulse which completely inhibited the flowering. Treating the plants with KCN blocked the inhibiting effect of red light. Because KCN lowers considerably the rate of destruction of labile Pfd in some plant systems, it seems probable that red light night-break irradiation (without KCN), which blocked the flowering, leads also to the accumulation of unknown Pfd destruction products (irreversible phytochrome). It also suggests that it is not the labile PfrI itself but the products of its irreversible transformation that could be active in the photoperiodic control of flowering.