A Leaf-Derived Signal Is a Quantitative Determinant of Floral Form in Impatiens
AUTOR(ES)
Tooke, Fiona
FONTE
American Society of Plant Physiologists
RESUMO
The completion of flower development in Impatiens balsamina requires continuous inductive (short-day) conditions. We have previously shown that a leaf-derived signal has a role in floral maintenance. The research described here analyzes the role of the leaf in flower development. Leaf removal treatments, in which plants were restricted to a specified number of leaves, resulted in flowers with increased petal number, up to double that of the undefoliated control. Similar petal number increases (as well as changes in bract number or morphology) were recorded when plants began their inductive treatment at a late developmental age or when plants of a nonreverting line (capable of floral maintenance in the absence of continuous short days) were transferred from short days to long days. Our data imply that the increased petal number was neither a response to stress effects associated with leaf removal nor a result of alterations in primordium initiation rates or substitutions of petals for stamens. Rather, the petal initiation phase was prolonged when the amounts of a leaf-derived signal were limiting. We conclude that a leaf-derived signal has a continuous and quantitative role in flower development and propose a temporal model for the action of organ identity genes in Impatiens. This work adds a new dimension to the prevailing ABC model of flower development and may provide an explanation for the wide variety and instabilities of floral form seen among certain species in nature.
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