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The advent of inexpensive and sensitive gas chromatographs made highly replicated trace analyses of low molecular mass hydrocarbons routine widely available. Since 1959 when Huelin and Kennet [1] used gas chromatography to detect ethylene from apples, a wealth of ethylene emission data helped dispelled misgivings about categorising ethylene as one of the principal endogenous plant hormones. Implicit in this view of ethylene as a major hormone is the assumption that ethylene production is an inextricable feature of aerobic plant metabolism. A second widespread belief is that the penultimate step in ethylene biosynthesis, catalyzed by the enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid synthase (ACC synthase) determines the rate of ethylene production rather than the final step in which ACC is converted to ethylene by the enzyme ACC oxidase. This view is based on the realization that while ACC oxidase is a relatively stable enzyme and seemingly present in amounts that exceed those needed to oxidise available endogenous ACC, ACC synthase transcripts, and enzyme, are unstable and thus require continued re-synthesis [2]. A third, widely-held view is that ethylene-promoted underwater elongation of submerged shoots is an obligate adaptive feature that allows aquatic and amphibious species to regain their position at or near-to the water surface and, thus, to survive submergence [3, 4, 5].
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Jackson, B., Summers, J.E., Voesenek, L.A.C.J. (1997). Potamogeton Pectinatus: A Vascular Plant that Makes No Ethylene. In: Kanellis, A.K., Chang, C., Kende, H., Grierson, D. (eds) Biology and Biotechnology of the Plant Hormone Ethylene. NATO ASI Series, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5546-5_29
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