Dose-Response Analysis of Factors Involved in Germination and Secondary Dormancy of Seeds of Sisymbrium officinale
Dose-Response Analysis of Factors Involved in Germination and Secondary Dormancy of Seeds of Sisymbrium officinale
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铁合花种子萌发及二次休眠相关因素的剂量反应分析
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The germination of seeds of Sisymbrium officinale is lightand nitrate dependent. A close interaction between the effects of light and nitrate on germination has been reported previously (HWM Hilhorst, CM Karssen [1988] Plant Physiol 86: 591-597). In this study, a detailed dose-response analysis of the light-induced germination during induction of secondary dormancy is presented. Germination in water dropped from 90 to 0% after a dark incubation of 150C of approximately 160 hours. In the presence of 25 millimolar KNO3, the decrease in germination level was delayed. At 24-hour intervals fluence-response curves were obtained in the presence of 25 millimolar KNO3. With increasing length of the preincubation period, fluence-response curves shifted along the abscissa to the right. After 120 hours the maximal germination level started to decline. The fluence-response curves were simulated by using formulations from receptor occupancy theory for a simple bimolecular reaction in which the reaction partners were Pfr and its tentative receptor X. A good simulation was obtained when cooperativity of the binding of Pfr to X was assumed. The experimental curve parameters could then be interpreted as binding parameters. The involvement of light in the seed germination of many wild species has been known for a long time. Since the majority of the species studied show reversibility of the light induction by far-red irradiation, there is little doubt that phytochrome is involved. The active form of phytochrome, Pfr, is assumed to trigger germination of light-requiring seeds and possibly also of light-independent seeds. The levels of preexisting Pfr in these seeds may be higher than the threshold for germination (5). Induction of secondary dormancy is characterized by a loss of sensitivity to environmental factors (16). The declining response to R' after prolonged dark incubation of seeds of 'Abbreviations: R, red light (660 nm); LFR, low fluence response; P,O,, total level ofphytochrome; m, log-fluence value for half-maximal germination; B, slope of log-dose probit line; KD, dissociation constant; Rmax, maximal response; ke, proportionality constant between the response and the receptor occupancy; [XIT, total level of [X] = [X] + [Pfr X]; F, photon fluence (mol m-2); n, Hill coefficient. 1090 Rumex crispus and Portulaca oleracea was compatible with a model in which germination is initiated after attainment of a certain level of interaction between Pfr and a phytochrome receptor, X (9). According to this model, the decreasing germination response during induction of dormancy was the result of declining levels of active receptors X, while the P,ot and the Pfr decay rate remained constant. However, in a subsequent study it was concluded that the declining response to R of R. crispus seeds upon dark incubation was the result of changes in the level of PfrX required for 50% germination. This level depended on several unknown factors but not on the level ofX or P0to (8). A model based on indications that the phytochrome molecule is a dimer (23) could explain biphasic fluence-response curves, which were observed after sensitization treatments of lettuce seeds ( 1, 2). This model assumed the existence of two different active phytochrome-receptor complexes, Pr:Pfr-X and Pfr:Pfr-X, which were responsible for the very low fluence response and the LFR, respectively. Implications were that the level ofX was about lO-' P:P,0,. Moreover, occupation of less than 40% ofX was sufficient to maximize the LFR. Germination ofSisymbrium officinale seeds has an absolute requirement for light and nitrate (11, 17). Detailed studies have shown a strong interaction between light and nitrate (12). These studies were performed on seeds that possessed a degree ofdormancy established by a fixed preincubation time at 15°C. The aim of the present study was to monitor the response to R during induction of secondary dormancy and to give changes in the response a physicochemical meaning, with respect to the interaction between phytochrome and its receptor. MATERIALS AND METHODS