1. The technique of streak photography was modified to use seven parallel cameras, each focused on an individual root in a guide holding flowing nutrient. Streak photographs representing displacement of points on the longitudinal axis of the root were projected on the table of an image plane digitizer. The displacement data are collected on cards by an IBM 526 key punch and processed by an IBM 360-65 computer. All graphic data were plotted by an EAI line plotter having a resolution of 600 lines per inch. 2. Roots of corn held at a temperature of 25°, a pH of 5.6, with constant oxygen concentration and basic nutrient composition, were subjected to step changes in oxygen and auxin (3-indoleacetic acid, IAA) concentrations. When O2 was lowered the response of the root consisted of a large reduction in growth rate followed by a series of oscillations with a period of about 30-50 min. Step changes in IAA from 0-10(-8)M (or less) resulted in heavily dampened oscillatory responses as well as reduction in growth rate. 10(-7) M IAA, however, elicited the initial inhibition followed by full recovery of growth rate after a few hours.
List, Albert, Jr. (Douglass Coll., Rutgers U., New Brunswick, N. J.) Some observations on DNA content and cell and nuclear volume growth in the developing xylem cells of certain higher plants. Amer. Jour. Bot. 50(4): 320–329. Illus. 1963.—The developing metaxylem cells of Acorus calamus roots undergo an over‐all growth in cell and nuclear volume that may be expressed roughly as a constant ratio of relative growth rates. Within this over‐all growth picture, however, there is a periodicity of both nuclear and cell volume growth. Other plants such as Peltandra, Eleocharis, and Dennstaedtia undergo a similar volume growth. Marsilea tracheary elements have an increase in nuclear number per cell by simultaneous divisions. Arisaema metaxylem nuclei go through a series of DNA doublings correlated with nuclear volume doubling and cell volume increase, at least up to the 16‐ or 32‐ploid level. The cells display some tendency to fall into size classes, expressing a pulsation in growth. A fluctuating alternation or stepwise growth of cell and nucleus appears to describe the data more suitably than the allometric growth equation. In Zea, the cell and nuclear volumes for metaxylem cells fit a fluctuating envelope better than the straight line, and there is again the probability that cell volumes fall into size classes related to nuclear volume class. The DNA content of the nuclei was determined to fall into a frequency distribution having peaks at the 4‐, 8‐, 16‐, and 32‐ploid equivalent, agreeing with an earlier report for diploid maize. DNA content was highly correlated with nuclear volume in the over‐all growth of the metaxylem cells.
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