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Plant Cell Reports 31: 253-270 (2012)

Beyond gibberellins and abscisic acid: how ethylene and jasmonates control seed germination

Ada Linkies*, Gerhard Leubner-Metzger
*corresponding author: ada.linkies@biologie.uni-freiburg.de

University of Freiburg, Faculty of Biology, Institute for Biology II, Botany / Plant Physiology, Schänzlestr. 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany, Web: 'The Seed Biology Place' http://www.seedbiology.de

Received: 27 September 2011; Revised: 13 October 2011; Accepted 13 October 2011; Published online 02 November 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-011-1180-1

Fig. 3. Ethylene biosynthesis pathway and gene expression regulation during Arabidopsis thaliana seed germination.

a Ethylene biosynthesis as discovered by (Yang and Hoffman 1984). Key step during seed germination is the conversion of ACC to ethylene via ACC oxidases (Linkies et al. 2009; Matilla and Matilla-Vázquez 2008).

b and c Relative transcript expression results obtained by eNorthern analyses of data from the BAR expression browser at www.bar.utoronto.ca (Toufighi et al. 2005) based on experiments for non-dormant, non-stratified after-ripened wild type seeds (Nakabayashi et al. 2005; Preston et al. 2009), cold-stratified wild type seeds (Yamauchi et al. 2004), ABA-treated wild-type and GA-treated ga1-3 seeds (RIKEN transcriptome sets). Shown are relative transcript abundance ratios based on seed imbibition time in the light (24h / 0h), ABA treatment (ABA / control at 24h), cold stratification (4ºC / 22ºC after 96h imbibition in darkness), and GA treatment (GA / control at 6h). Abbreviations: ACC= 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid, MTA= methylthioadenosine, MTR= methylthioribose, SAM= S-AdoMet.

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