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BIOLOGIA PLANTARUM
Volume 46, Issue 4, Pages 535-541Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024811527499
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Nicotiana tabacum; stomata
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The content of endogenous free abscisic acid (ABA) in the shoots of in vitro cultivated tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. White Burley) and its changes during ex vitro acclimation of these plants to the greenhouse or growth chamber were estimated. The content of free ABA significantly increased at the 1(st) and/or 2(nd) day after plant transfer from in vitro to ex vitro. The ABA content of plants covered with transparent foil to maintain higher relative humidity (RH), did not significantly differ from ABA content of plants cultivated under ambient RH. Transfer to fresh medium also transiently increased the content of endogenous ABA. The ABA content in plants, which had been acclimated for 1 week to ex vitro conditions, decreased to the content found in the in vitro plants. Acclimation to ex vitro conditions affected the stomata on adaxial and abaxial sides differently: stomata on the adaxial side were less open than those on the abaxial one. The exogenous application of 5 muM ABA increased transiently its endogenous concentration in shoots of in vitro plants more than ten fold, but after 1 week the concentration in the shoots decreased.
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