Abstract

Continuous treatment with spermidine or 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid stimulated ethylene production and ethylene-forming enzyme activity and accelerated chlorophyll breakdown in detached tobacco leaves. The treatments also induced the production of eleven major acidic pathogenesis-related proteins, which were also produced during the hypersensitive reaction to tobacco necrosis virus. A delay between the onset of the stimulated ethylene increase and the detection of PR-proteins was found; ethylene production was stimulated after a few hours of treatment, whereas one, three and all the eleven PR-proteins were detected by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of fluid extracts after 2, 4 and 6 days of treatments, respectively. The possible causal relationship between stimulation of ethylene production and PR-protein accumulation is discussed.

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