Flowering involves a transition process from vegetative growth to reproductive development, in which a series of routine changes take place in the shoot apical meristems from metabolic pathway to external phenotype. E...Flowering involves a transition process from vegetative growth to reproductive development, in which a series of routine changes take place in the shoot apical meristems from metabolic pathway to external phenotype. Expression of the genes related to flowering is the foundation for achieving the transition. Environmental factors (such as vernalization and photoperiod) and the growth status of cell itself induce the expression of the specific genes. A lot of achievements have been made recently in gene control for the determination of flowering time. The article reviews some new advances of such researches related to our work and the interesting field.展开更多
Vernalization is an essential factor which affects the flowering development in cold_requiring plants. There is a key stage of nucleic acid and protein metabolism in the process of vernalization in winter wheat. To pr...Vernalization is an essential factor which affects the flowering development in cold_requiring plants. There is a key stage of nucleic acid and protein metabolism in the process of vernalization in winter wheat. To probe into the molecular determinants of vernalization , we examined mRNA populations in differently_treated plumules of winter wheat \%(Triticum aestivum \%L. \%cv\% Yanda 1817) using mRNA differential display. One vernalization_ related cDNA clone \%(VRC), VRC54\%, was identified and was only expressed at the key stage of 20 d vernalization, rather than at other stages of nonvernalization, 4 d vernalization and devernalization. Northern blot and sequence analysis indicated that \%VRC54\% was a novel vernalization_related clone found in higher plant which not only might play an important role in the floral induction in vernalization_requiring plants but also was different from the cold_acclimatized genes.展开更多
文摘Flowering involves a transition process from vegetative growth to reproductive development, in which a series of routine changes take place in the shoot apical meristems from metabolic pathway to external phenotype. Expression of the genes related to flowering is the foundation for achieving the transition. Environmental factors (such as vernalization and photoperiod) and the growth status of cell itself induce the expression of the specific genes. A lot of achievements have been made recently in gene control for the determination of flowering time. The article reviews some new advances of such researches related to our work and the interesting field.
文摘Vernalization is an essential factor which affects the flowering development in cold_requiring plants. There is a key stage of nucleic acid and protein metabolism in the process of vernalization in winter wheat. To probe into the molecular determinants of vernalization , we examined mRNA populations in differently_treated plumules of winter wheat \%(Triticum aestivum \%L. \%cv\% Yanda 1817) using mRNA differential display. One vernalization_ related cDNA clone \%(VRC), VRC54\%, was identified and was only expressed at the key stage of 20 d vernalization, rather than at other stages of nonvernalization, 4 d vernalization and devernalization. Northern blot and sequence analysis indicated that \%VRC54\% was a novel vernalization_related clone found in higher plant which not only might play an important role in the floral induction in vernalization_requiring plants but also was different from the cold_acclimatized genes.
