The response in vitro of thin cell layers, excised from different stem regions of Nicotiana tabacum cv. Maryland Mammoth plants at various developmental stages, was studied under different photoperiodic treatments. The aim was to determine at which stage of plant development, and in which region of the stem, the absolute short‐day requirement, indispensable for the induction of the flowering process in this genotype, becomes quantitative and whether it remains short‐day. The explants were cultured on a medium suitable for flower neoformation, and were exposed for 30 days to the following treatments: continuous darkness, 8 h light/16 h dark per day, 16 h light/8 h dark per day, and continuous light. The first flowers on explants were observed from plants that were still in the vegetative state, but whose apex showed an accelerated production of axillary vegetative buds, as observed histologically. These explants were excised from the first 10 internodes below the first node with a leaf ≥ 5 cm in length (apical site), and produced flowers only under short‐day treatment. When the apical dome initiated the organization of the terminal flower, the apical site explants developed flowers under both short‐day and long‐day treatments. At the same stage, explants from the 15th to the 20th internode below the first leaf ≥ 5 cm in length also formed flowers, but only under short‐day. When the plant showed a complete inflorescence, flowers were also present on explants from the most basal stem internodes and from the inflorescence branches. At this stage, flower neoformation occurred under all treatments; however, under short‐day the number of explants showing flowers not associated with vegetative buds on the same sample greatly exceeded that observed under other treatments, as did the mean number of flowers per explant (except the basal regions). In conclusion, in the post‐inductive phases of the flowering process, the photoperiodic requirement of this genotype is always short‐day. The superficial tissues of the stem require either absolute or quantitative short‐day treatment, depending on their position on the stem and the stage of evolution of the flowering process in the terminal apex.

Transition from absolute to quantitative short-day control in Nicotiana tabacum cv. Maryland Mammoth / Altamura, Maria Maddalena; Tomassi, Marisa. - In: PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM. - ISSN 0031-9317. - 91:2(1994), pp. 276-284. [10.1111/j.1399-3054.1994.tb00431.x]

Transition from absolute to quantitative short-day control in Nicotiana tabacum cv. Maryland Mammoth

Altamura, Maria Maddalena
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1994

Abstract

The response in vitro of thin cell layers, excised from different stem regions of Nicotiana tabacum cv. Maryland Mammoth plants at various developmental stages, was studied under different photoperiodic treatments. The aim was to determine at which stage of plant development, and in which region of the stem, the absolute short‐day requirement, indispensable for the induction of the flowering process in this genotype, becomes quantitative and whether it remains short‐day. The explants were cultured on a medium suitable for flower neoformation, and were exposed for 30 days to the following treatments: continuous darkness, 8 h light/16 h dark per day, 16 h light/8 h dark per day, and continuous light. The first flowers on explants were observed from plants that were still in the vegetative state, but whose apex showed an accelerated production of axillary vegetative buds, as observed histologically. These explants were excised from the first 10 internodes below the first node with a leaf ≥ 5 cm in length (apical site), and produced flowers only under short‐day treatment. When the apical dome initiated the organization of the terminal flower, the apical site explants developed flowers under both short‐day and long‐day treatments. At the same stage, explants from the 15th to the 20th internode below the first leaf ≥ 5 cm in length also formed flowers, but only under short‐day. When the plant showed a complete inflorescence, flowers were also present on explants from the most basal stem internodes and from the inflorescence branches. At this stage, flower neoformation occurred under all treatments; however, under short‐day the number of explants showing flowers not associated with vegetative buds on the same sample greatly exceeded that observed under other treatments, as did the mean number of flowers per explant (except the basal regions). In conclusion, in the post‐inductive phases of the flowering process, the photoperiodic requirement of this genotype is always short‐day. The superficial tissues of the stem require either absolute or quantitative short‐day treatment, depending on their position on the stem and the stage of evolution of the flowering process in the terminal apex.
1994
Flower neoformation; flowering process; Nicotiana tabacum cv. Maryland Mammoth: photoperiodic requirement; short‐day control ;thin cell layers; tobacco
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Transition from absolute to quantitative short-day control in Nicotiana tabacum cv. Maryland Mammoth / Altamura, Maria Maddalena; Tomassi, Marisa. - In: PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM. - ISSN 0031-9317. - 91:2(1994), pp. 276-284. [10.1111/j.1399-3054.1994.tb00431.x]
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