Light, Temperature, and Anthocyanin Production

✍ Scribed by Rabino, Isaac (author);Mancinelli, Alberto L. (author)

• Book ID: 126249474
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 521 KB
• Volume: 81
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-0889
• DOI: 10.1104/pp.81.3.922

✦ Synopsis

Temperature affects the total amount, the time course, and the red/ far-red effectiveness ratio of light-dependent anthocyanin production in Brassica oleracea L. seedlings. Some of the effects of temperature on anthocyanin production in cabbage are in agreement with the predictions of a model proposed by JK Wall and CB Johnson (1983 Planta 159: 387-397) for the effects of temperature on the state of phytochrome and on the expression of phytochrome-mediated high irradiance responses, but others are not. The lack of a complete agreement between experi- mental results and model predictions might be due to factors related to the experimental system used or to limitations of the model or both.