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1Department of Biology and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024.
Abstract:
Ethylene treatment of carrot roots elicits a developmental program encompassing an increase in respiration rate and changes in gene expression. Both phenomena are potentiated when ethylene is administered in O(2). Our previous studies showed that both respiration and a number of ethylene specific mRNAs increase together in response to ethylene through some 21 hours, whereas thereafter respiration continues to rise, while the level of induced mRNAs drops. Herein we ask whether an experimentally effected drop in the respiration rate within the first 21 hours caused by the withdrawal of ethylene, or substitution of air for O(2) in the continued presence of ethylene, is linked to a drop in the level of ethylene-induced mRNA. Quantitative estimation of two ethylene evoked mRNAs by dot blot hybridization with appropriate cDNA clones has shown that under the specified treatment the induced mRNA levels remain constant while the respiration rate drops, suggesting that gene expression, as reflected in induced mRNA levels, and respiration rate are separately regulated facets of the ethylene response.
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