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- Title
Axillary bud flowering after apical decapitation in Pharbitis in relation to photoinduction.
- Authors
Michiyuki Ono; Kimiyo Sage Ono; Koichiro Yamada; Masaru Yasui; Mitsuo Okazaki
- Abstract
The flowering response of axillary buds of seedlings of Pharbitis nil Choisy, cv. Violet, was examined in relation to the timing of apical bud removal (plumule including the first leaf or second leaf) before or after a flower-inductive 16-h dark period. When the apical bud was removed well before the dark period, flower buds formed on the axillary shoots that subsequently developed, but when removed just before, or after, the dark period, different results were observed depending on the timing of the apical bud removal and plant age. In the case of 8-day-old seedlings, fewer flower buds formed on the axillary shoots developing from the cotyledonary node when plumules were removed 20 to Oh before the dark period. When the apical bud was removed after the dark period, no flower buds formed. Using 14-day-old seedlings a similar reduction of flowering response was observed on the axillary shoots developing from the first leaf node when the apical bud was removed just after the dark period. To further elucidate the relationship between apical dominance and flowering, kinetin or JAA was applied to axillary buds or the cut site where the apical bud was located. Both chemicals influenced flowering, probably by modulating apical dominance which normally forces axillary buds to be dormant.
- Subjects
PLANT hormones; AUXIN; BOTANY; BUDS; CYTOKININS; PHOTOPERIODISM
- Publication
Physiologia Plantarum, 1993, Vol 87, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0031-9317
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1399-3054.1993.tb08782.x