Activities of nucleases in senescing daylily petals
2000
Panavas, T. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Etats Unis). Department of Biology) | LeVangie, R. | Mistler, J. | Reid, P.D. | Rubinstein, B.
The activity of nucleases during organ death was investigated using daylily petals (Hemerocallis hybrid cv. Stella d'Oro), in which the processes associated with senescence are rapid and clearly ordered. The number of nuclei with fragmented DNA as well as activities of various nucleases increase before certain other events that are related to senescence. Furthermore, DNA breakage and activities of nucleases occur earlier when senescence is accelerated by abscisic acid and occur later when senescence is retarded by cycloheximide. These results suggest that the activities of nucleases contribute to the senescence of daylily petals. Therefore, studying the regulation of nuclease gene expression may be useful for understanding components of the signal transduction system that leads to the death of these organs.
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