caa a22 4500 463159519 CHVBK 20180406164743.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10535-007-0016-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10535-007-0016-x Kinetin regulates plant growth and biochemical changes during maturation and senescence of leaves, flowers, and pods of Cajanus cajan L [Elektronische Daten] [D. Mukherjee, R. Kumar] Aspects of plant growth such as height, branch number, leaf number, leaf area, pod area, 100-seed mass, etc., were correlated with biochemical changes such as contents of chlorophyll (Chl), proteins, DNA, and RNA, and protease activity during development and senescent phases in leaves, flowers, and pods of Cajanus cajan L. cv. UPAS-120 after treatments with kinetin (Kn). A significant increase was noticed in branch number, leaf number, leaf area, and seed mass while other growth processes registered a small increase after Kn application. Effectiveness of 5 µM Kn was also noticed in minimizing the loss of Chls, proteins, and nucleic acids as well as reducing the protease activity during maturity and senescence. Chl a/b ratio maintained a high value up to 30-d followed by a decline in leaves while flowers registered much lower ratio at 20-d-age. Pods were unique in having relatively lower ratio of Chl a/b in comparison to leaves. Institute of Experimental Botany, ASCR, 2007 chlorophylls nationallicence DNA nationallicence growth parameters nationallicence protease activity nationallicence proteins nationallicence RNA nationallicence BA : benzyladenine nationallicence Chl : chlorophyll nationallicence CK : cytokinin nationallicence Kn : kinetin (Kn0, Kn1, Kn2, and Kn3-kinetin 0, 5, 50 and 500 µM, respectively) nationallicence Mukherjee D. Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, 136119, Kurukshetra, India aut Kumar R. Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, 136119, Kurukshetra, India aut Biologia Plantarum Springer Netherlands 51/1(2007-03-01), 80-85 0006-3134 51:1<80 2007 51 10535 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10535-007-0016-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10535-007-0016-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mukherjee D. Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, 136119, Kurukshetra, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kumar R. Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, 136119, Kurukshetra, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biologia Plantarum Springer Netherlands 51/1(2007-03-01), 80-85 0006-3134 51:1<80 2007 51 10535 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer