• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.542-546
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• 2009

Leaves are the major biomass-producing organs in herbaceous plants and mainly develop during vegetative stage by activities of shoot apical meristem. There is a strong correlation between leaf number and bolting, a characteristic phenotype during the transition to reproductive phase in Arabidopsis thaliana. In order to study interactions between leaf number and bolting, we isolated a Landsberg erecta-derived mutant named multifolial (mfo1) that produces increased number of leaves and bolts at the same time as the wild type. Through positional cloning and allelism test, mfo1 was found to be an allele of a previously reported mutant, altered meristem program1-1 (amp1-1) that is defective in a glutamate carboxypeptidase and bolts earlier than its wild type, Columbia ecotype, with the increased number of leaves. The bolting time differences between mfo1 and amp1, despite the same phenotype of many leaves, suggest the existence of genetic factor(s) differently function in each ecotype in the presence of mfo1/amp1 mutation.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.63-72
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• 1995

온대지방의 수 종 목본식물에서 생육초기 동일 줄기로보터 동시 개엽하는 잎들의 생장과 크기 및 형태의 차이를 조사하고 이를 나타내는 방법을 시도하였다. 조사된 12종에서 조사기간 중에 동일 줄기로부터개엽한 총엽수는 3~7개이며, 이중 동시 개엽한 엽수는 2~6개이었다. 동시 개엽한 잎의 엽면적 생장은 조사시기의 마지막인 6월 10일에 거의 완료되었지만 잎의 무게는 계속 증가하였다. 그리고 동시 개엽한 잎들의 비엽면적의 최대치는 유사한 시기에 나타났다. 굴참나무를 제외한 11종에서 엽순에 따라 엽신의 길이와 폭의 차이에 유의성이 있었고, 진달래를 제외한 10종에서 전후엽 사이에서 0.1% 혹은 5% 수준에서 유의적인 차가 존재하였다. 엽순에 따른 잎의 이형성지수는 엽신의 길이와 폭으로부터 산출한 값인 엽신의 $길이{\times}폭$과 길이/폭에서 각각 평균 편차를 이용하여 구하였다. 이 결과 잎의 이형성 지수는 12종 중 개서나무, 쪽동백나무, 느릅나무, 짝짜래나무 및 노린재나무 등이 큰 것으로, 팥배나무와 피나무가 작은 것으로 나타났다. 이 결과는 실제 잎의 형태적 차이를 유사하게 표현하였다. 그리고 잎의 이형성 지수는 그 종의 생장형태나 잎의 다른 특징과 관계가 없었고, 환경에 대한 적응의 한 형태로 사료되었다.

• 원예과학기술지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.356-363
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• 2015

This study examined the effects of different day/night temperature regimes or silver ion on growth and flowering of passion fruit 'Tai-nung No.1'. Low temperature treatment ($20/15^{\circ}C$) caused passion fruit cultivar 'Tai-nung No.1' to fail to flower. Flowering induction occurred within a temperature range of $20-30^{\circ}C$, with no significant difference in the days to first flower bud and the total number of flower buds between plants grown at $30/25^{\circ}C$ and $25/20^{\circ}C$. However, plants grown at $30/25^{\circ}C$ exhibited their first flower buds set on the higher nodes and had higher abortion rates of flower buds than those at $25/20^{\circ}C$. Plants grown at $30/25^{\circ}C$ had the most rapid growth and the shortest plastochron. We also evaluated the effect of the ethylene response inhibitors silver nitrate ($AgNO_3$) and silver thiosulfate (STS) on growth and flowering of potted passion fruit 'Tai-nung No.1', when they were exposed to low temperature conditions ($20/15^{\circ}C$) following chemical treatments ($AgNO_3$ or STS, at 0.5 or 1.0 mM). $AgNO_3$ and STS treatments induced flower formation and initial flower bud formation within approximately two weeks at $20/15^{\circ}C$ whereas non-treated control plants exhibited no flower formation. ACC content and activity of ACC oxidase in the leaves of passion fruit 'Tai-nung No.1'exposed to low temperature conditions ($20/15^{\circ}C$) were significantly inhibited by the ethylene inhibitor treatments. These results indicate that ethylene, which is produced under low temperature conditions, plays an important role in inhibiting flower formation in passion fruit.