Abstract
Carbon-14 has been shown to be translocated to the root tips of flax seedlings when 14C-amitrole is applied to an expanded cotyledon. The herbicide causes inhibition of growth and modification in cellular structure in the root. These changes include an increase in vacuolation in cortical and root cap cells, precocious differentiation of vascular elements, and initiation of numerous root primordia. Severe ultrastructural damage was observed in some elongating cells, and changes in plastid structure. All modifications of root structure seem to be compatible with the theory that amitrole affects some step in nucleic acid metabolism.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Carbon-14 moved to flax seedling root tips after 14C-amitrole application to a cotyledon.
- Taxon
- flax
Linum usitatissimume0 - Organ / stage
- root tipse0
- Treatment
- 14C-amitrolee0
- Outcome
- Carbon-14e0
- Direction
- translocatede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Carbon-14 has been shown to be translocated to the root tips of flax seedlings when 14C-amitrole is applied to an expanded cotyledon.”
Claim · model-written summary
Amitrole inhibited flax root growth.
- Taxon
- FlaxLinum usitatissimumt0
- Treatment
- herbicidee0
- Outcome
- growthe0
- Direction
- inhibitione0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The herbicide causes inhibition of growth and modification in cellular structure in the root.”
t0“Flax”
Claim · model-written summary
Amitrole increased vacuolation in flax cortical and root cap cells.
- Taxon
- FlaxLinum usitatissimumt0
- Organ / stage
- cortical and root cap cellse0
- Outcome
- vacuolatione0
- Direction
- increasee0
Not reportedTreatmentComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“These changes include an increase in vacuolation in cortical and root cap cells, precocious differentiation of vascular elements, and initiation of numerous root primordia.”
t0“Flax”
Claim · model-written summary
Amitrole caused precocious differentiation of vascular elements.
- Taxon
- FlaxLinum usitatissimumt0
- Outcome
- precocious differentiation of vascular elementse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“These changes include an increase in vacuolation in cortical and root cap cells, precocious differentiation of vascular elements, and initiation of numerous root primordia.”
t0“Flax”
Claim · model-written summary
Amitrole initiated numerous root primordia.
- Taxon
- FlaxLinum usitatissimumt0
- Outcome
- initiation of numerous root primordiae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“These changes include an increase in vacuolation in cortical and root cap cells, precocious differentiation of vascular elements, and initiation of numerous root primordia.”
t0“Flax”
Claim · model-written summary
Severe ultrastructural damage appeared in some elongating root cells.
- Taxon
- FlaxLinum usitatissimumt0
- Organ / stage
- elongating cellse0
- Outcome
- Severe ultrastructural damagee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Severe ultrastructural damage was observed in some elongating cells, and changes in plastid structure.”
t0“Flax”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastid structure changed after amitrole exposure.
- Taxon
- FlaxLinum usitatissimumt0
- Outcome
- changes in plastid structuree0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Severe ultrastructural damage was observed in some elongating cells, and changes in plastid structure.”
t0“Flax”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors interpret root structural changes as compatible with amitrole affecting nucleic acid metabolism.
- Taxon
- FlaxLinum usitatissimumt0
- Outcome
- modifications of root structuree0
- Qualifier
- amitrole affects some step in nucleic acid metabolisme0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“All modifications of root structure seem to be compatible with the theory that amitrole affects some step in nucleic acid metabolism.”
t0“Flax”
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