Claim · model-written summary
Two hours of soaking increased root growth of excised rye embryos.
- Taxon
- Rye
Secale cerealee0 - Treatment
- Soaking the grain for as short a period as two hourse0
- Outcome
- growth of both roots and shootse0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Rye grains were soaked for various periods and the effect on the subsequent growth of the <it>excised</it> embryo (grown on sucrose agar) studied. Soaking the grain for as short a period as two hours produces increased growth of both roots and shoots in the excised embryo.”
Title
DE ROPP, R. S. HighWire Press Open Archive
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- Intervention effect Preliminary soaking increased lateral root production in light and darkness.
- Intervention effect Preliminary soaking increased anthocyanin production in etiolated embryos.
- Intervention effect Preliminary soaking accelerated tropic responses of excised embryos.
- Association Sugar concentration and soaking duration both affected embryo growth, without either simply controlling it.
- Mechanism The authors inferred that auxin and a regulator enter the embryo during soaking.