Growth, in Vivo Extensibility, and Tissue Tension in Developing Pea Internodes 1
AUTOR(ES)
Kutschera, Ulrich
RESUMO
The relationship between growth, in vivo extensibility, and tissue tension in the first 3 internodes of 5, 6, and 7 day-old pea plants (Pisum sativum L. cv Alaska), grown under continuous red light was investigated. The upper 15 millimeters of each internode was marked with ink and its elongation growth measured over the next subsequent 8 hours. In vivo extensibility was measured by stretching living tissue at constant force (creep test) in a custom-built extensiometer. Tissue tension was determined by (a) measuring the rate of expansion of the isolated cortical cylinder after adding water and the amount of contraction of the epidermis after peeling, and (b) by use of the `split section test.' A good correlation between rate of elongation growth, in vivo extensibility, and tissue tension was established. The epidermis peeled from the growing third internode of 7 day-old plants and measured immediately showed a plastic extensibility (Epl twice that of peels from nongrowing excised sections. This high Epl-value was lost on incubation of the sections in distilled water, and was subsequently restored by incubating the sections in auxin (indole-3-acetic acid). We conclude that the in situ growth of the internodes is a function of tissue-tension, which provides the driving force of organ growth, and the extensibility (Epl of the outer epidermal wall, which is in the growing plant in a `loosened' state. We furthermore suggest that in the intact plant auxin is causally involved in the wall loosening process in the epidermis.
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