scholarly journals How Have Advances in Comparative Floral Development Influenced Our Understanding of Floral Evolution?

2015 ◽  
Vol 176 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverley J. Glover ◽  
Chiara A. Airoldi ◽  
Samuel F. Brockington ◽  
Mario Fernández-Mazuecos ◽  
Cecilia Martínez-Pérez ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis P. Ronse De Craene ◽  
Lai Wei

We investigated the floral anatomy and development of Macarthuria australis Hügel ex Endl., an unusual genus endemic to Australia, in the context of floral evolution of core Caryophyllales. Flower initiation is spiral, with sepals developing quincuncially. The first two petals continue the sequence of sepal initiation, but the remaining petals arise from common stamen–petal primordia. The androecium develops sequentially as three inner antesepalous and five outer antepetalous stamens. The globular ovary is trimerous with a short symplicate zone and two arillate ovules per locule. The rapid emergence of the androecium leads to a partial absorption of the petal primordia within the androecial tissue. The two first-formed petals have more room for development and precede the androecium, supporting the fact that petals are not staminodial in origin. This heterochronic shift correlates with an inversed developmental sequence of the antesepalous stamens. The constraint caused by the spatial occupation of sepals and carpels leads to the loss of two stamens, and the re-arrangement of stamens and petals along the flanks of the carpels. The floral development of Macarthuria anticipates a syndrome of stamen and petal development in other core Caryophyllales and culminating in the Caryophyllaceae.





2014 ◽  
Vol 175 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Bruneau ◽  
Bente B. Klitgaard ◽  
Gerhard Prenner ◽  
Marie Fougère-Danezan ◽  
Shirley C. Tucker


HortScience ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 536d-536
Author(s):  
Rina Kamenetsky

The influence of postharvest temperature on the flowering response of Eremurus was studied. The plants were harvested at four different stages of development and were separated into three groups. The first group was immediately exposed to 2 °C, the second group to 20 °C followed by 2 °C, and the third group to 20 °C followed by 32 °C and, subsequently, 2 °C. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used for concurrent morphological analysis of floral development. Application of 2 °C to the plants in the initial stage of floral development caused plant destruction and death, while the same treatment applied at the stage of full differentiation promoted normal flowering. Temperatures of 20 °C and, especially, 32 °C, significantly improved flowering of the plants harvested in the early stages of florogenesis, whereas the same treatment applied to the plants harvested at the end of flower differentiation did not affect the flowering process. A developmental disorder, which we term “Interrupted Floral Development” (IFD), was observed only in the plants harvested when the racemes were fully differentiated. This was probably caused by the very high air and soil temperatures that prevail in Israel during the summer. The extent of floral differentiation has a determinant role in subsequent scape elongation and flowering.





1998 ◽  
Vol 152 (5) ◽  
pp. 696
Author(s):  
Ferdy ◽  
Gouyon ◽  
Moret ◽  
Godelle


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