La morphogenèse florale chez le pétunia. I. Analyse d'un mutant à corolle staminée

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Vallade ◽  
Daniel Maizonnier ◽  
André Cornu

The blind mutant of Petunia hybrida Hort. is characterized by a flower with a highly modified corolla: the much reduced or lacking corolla tube lamina is replaced by five supernumerary anthers, which produce scarce but fertile pollen. The ontogenic study of stamen and corolla formation shows the existence of three separate morphogenetic patterns corresponding to the development of undifferentiated appendages, the formation of pollen sacs or floral appendages, and the final intercalary growth (filament and corolla tube elongation), respectively. A first interpretative scheme of the floral morphogenesis is proposed and discussed.

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 866-872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-France Turlier ◽  
Josiane Alabouvette ◽  
Diane Doulain-Douvier

A monogenic mutant of Petunia hybrida R-n57 exhibits flowers with abnormal gynoecium: various malformations, such as the opening of the style and the nonprotection of ovules, or the masculinization with development of pollen sacs, anthers, and male gametophyte growing with or within ovules. The same type of abnormalities happens over and over along one inflorescential axis so that an ontogenic analysis can be conducted. Some assumptions are supported by the histocytological study: a few punctual modifications of the normal organogenesis program, recently established, and one new stage ending at the masculine or abnormal gynoecium, with homeotic members, are involved. Relations between the deflected development and female sterility are argued. Key words: flower, teratology, morphogenesis, mutant, Petunia.


Author(s):  
T. V. Krestovskaya

On the base of a critical review of the material kept in the most of main European and some Asian Herbaria, a synopsis of the genus Stachys L. section Satureoides R. Bhattacharjee is given. The description of the section is enlarged (calyx 5–10(15)-veined, upper floral leaves often with short spinescent tip, stamens slightly exserted from the corolla tube). The section is represented by 4 species distributed in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The keys for determination of its species and infraspecific taxa are compiled. The data on main synonyms, ecology, geographical distribution and types are given. The lectotypes of S. satureioides Montbret et Aucher ex Benth., S. ramosissima Montbret et Aucher ex Benth., S. burgsdorffioides (Benth.) Boiss. and S. burgsdorffioides subsp. ladanoides Hand.-Mazz. are designated.


Nematology ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Neilson ◽  
Linda L. Handley ◽  
David Robinson ◽  
Charlie M. Scrimgeour ◽  
Derek J.F. Brown

Abstract The effects of a) systemic virus infection (arabis mosaic and tomato black ring nepoviruses), b) ectoparasitic nematode feeding (Xiphinema diversicaudatum and Longidorus elongatus) and c) a combination of virus infection and nematode feeding on the natural abundances of 13C(delta13C) and 15N(delta15N) of nitrogen-starved Petunia hybrida were studied. Pathogen-induced effects were not confined to sites of virus infection or nematode feeding. Those treatments with nematodes feeding on Petunia hosts and those with a combination of virus infection and nematode feeding resulted in a depletion of shoot and root 15N compared with controls. Virus-infected plants were more 15N-enriched than those fed upon by nematodes which, in turn, were more 15N-enriched than those with both nematode and virus in combination. Shoot delta13C values from infected treatments were not significantly different from controls. Although root delta13C was significantly different from controls in most treatments, absolute differences were small. Differences in delta15N between infected and control plants were probably caused by physiological responses to pathogen infection/feeding such as production of PR-proteins and/or release of nitric oxide. Le contenu naturel en 15N et 13C comme indicateur de la reaction de Petunia hybrida a l'infestation par les nematodes Longidorides et les nepovirus - La presente etude a porte sur l'influence i) d'une infection virale systemique (nepovirus de la mosaique Arabis et du cercle noir de la tomate), ii) d'une atteinte par des nematodes ectoparasites (Xiphinema diversicaudatum et Longidorus elongatus) et iii) d'une combinaison de deux types de pathogenes sur le contenu naturel en 13C(delta13C) et en 15N(delta15N) de Petunia hybrida deficients en azote. Les effets induits par ces organismes pathogenes ne sont pas limites aux sites de l'infection virale ou a ceux des attaques des nematodes. Compares aux temoins, les traitements comportant les seules attaques de nematodes et ceux comportant des attaques combinees des deux types de parasites provoquent une diminution du 15N des racines et des parties aeriennes. Les plants infectes par les virus avaient un taux en 15N plus eleve que ceux attaques par les nematodes, lesquels, en revanche, contenaient plus de 15N que les plants soumis simultanement aux deux types de parasites. Les taux de delta13C dans les parties aeriennes des plants soumis aux differentes attaques n'etaient pas significativement differents de ceux des temoins. Si, dans la plupart des traitements, les taux de delta13C dans les racines etaient significativement differents de ceux des temoins, ces differences restaient faibles en valeur absolue. Les differences dans les taux en delta15N entre plants infectes et temoins sont probablement la resultante de reactions physiologiques aux pathogenes, telles la production de proteines PR ou l'emission d'oxyde nitrique.


2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 719-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
HIROSHI KUDOH ◽  
TAKASHI SUGAWARA ◽  
SUGONG WU ◽  
JIN MURATA

Floral trait correlations were compared between the two flower morphs of a distylous Ophiorrhiza napoensis population in a subtropical evergreen forest at the Defu Natural Animal Preserve, Guangxi, China. Common principal component analyses indicated that overall patterns in correlations among floral traits were morph specific in the study population. Strong positive correlations (r > 0.9) between anther height and corolla-tube length were found in both morphs. Stigma height correlated positively with corolla-tube length in the long-styled morph (r = 0.843), but not in the short-styled morph (r = −0.018). Flower-morph-specific correlation suggests that natural selection by pollinators has moulded trait covariance among floral traits. Because morph-specific correlations are expressed as the patterns of within-morph variation among multiple traits, putative genes responsible for the stigma-corolla tube correlation should not link to the supergene for sex-organ reciprocity between the morphs, but their expression is limited in the long-styled morph.


1982 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 297 ◽  
Author(s):  
PJ Larkin ◽  
W Scowcroft ◽  
AE Geissler ◽  
GF Katekar

The phytotropins l-(2'-carboxyphenyl)-3-phenylpropane-1,3-dione (CPP) and 5-(2-carboxyphenyl)- 3-phenylpyrazole (CPD) reduced the net efflux of radiolabel from suspension-cultured cells treated with [14C]2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid when present at concentrations comparable to those that inhibit polar transport of auxins in bean petioles. These phytotropins stimulated division of protoplasts of both Nicotiana debneyi and Petunia hybrida at concentrations of exogenous auxins that were otherwise suboptimal for divisions. The results are consistent with the proposal that phytotropins interact with specific receptors to reduce auxin efflux, resulting in increased intracellular auxin concentrations.


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