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The effect of abscisic acid (ABA) on uptake of potassium (86Bb+ or 42K+) by Avena sativa L. coleoptile sections was investigated. ABA lowered the potassium uptake rate within 30 min after its application and inhibition reached a maximum (ca. 75%) after 2 h. The inhibition of K+ uptake increased with ABA concentration over a range of 0.03 to 10 μg/ml ABA. At a higher K+ concentration (20 mM) the percentage inhibition decreased. The percentage inhibition of K+ uptake by ABA remained constant with external K+ varied from 0.04 to 1.0 mM. After a loading period in 20 mM K+ (86Rb+), apparent efflux of potassium was only slightly increased by ABA. Experiments in which growth was greatly reduced by mannitol or by omission of indole-3-acetic acid from the medium indicated there was no simple quantitative correspondence between ABA inhibition of coleoptile elongation and ABA inhibition of K+ uptake. Chloride uptake was also inhibited by ABA but to a smaller degree than was K+ uptake. No specificity for counterions was observed for K+ uptake. Uptake of 3,0-methylglucose and proline were inhibited by ABA to a much smaller extent (14 and 11%) than that of K+, a result which suggests that ABA acts on specific ion uptake mechanisms.
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Reed, Nm.R., Bonner, B.A. The effect of abscisic acid on the uptake of potassium and chloride into Avena coleoptile sections. Planta 116, 173–185 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00380651
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