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Burst of ethylene upon horizontal placement of tomato seedlings
1Biology Department, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri 63130, USA.
Plant Physiology
|January 1, 1984
Abstract:
Seedlings of Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv Rutgers emit a pulse of ethylene during the first 2 to 4 minutes following horizontal placement. Because this burst appears too rapid and brief to be mediated by increase in net activity of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid synthase, it might result form accelerated transformation of vacuolar 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid to ethylene.