Abstract
The effect of red (R) and R/far-red (FR) lights on endogenous gibberellin (GA) and abscisic acid (ABA) content was first investigated during the germination of photoblastic black-hulled weedy rice (PBWR) seeds. The R light-treated PBWR seeds germinated after 36–48 h and germination was increased to 63% at 72 h. However, the FR light-treated seeds after R light treatment, suppressed the R light effect showing only 11% germination even at 72 h after the light treatment. The PBWR seed treated with R light rapidly increased the endogenous level of GA1 to about 200 times at 12 h before seed germination as compared with R/FR (control) which suppressed the effect of R light. The contents of other GAs like GA12, GA53, GA19, GA20, and GA8 were not affected by the R light irradiation. These results showed that the major biosynthetic pathway of GAs in PBWR seeds is the early 13-hydroxylation pathway leading to GA1, which was suggested to be physiologically active in the PBWR seed germination. The decrease in the level of ABA in the R light-treated seeds was greater than the R/FR light-treated seeds, indicating that the balance of endogenous GA1 and ABA is responsible for the induction of germination in the PBWR seed.
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