Rates of corolla growth in tobacco determined with the plastochron index |
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Authors: | J P Hill R L Malmberg |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Botany, University of Georgia, 30602 Athens, GA, USA;(2) Present address: Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, 83209 Pocatello, ID, USA |
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Abstract: | The growth of vegetative and reproductive shoots of Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Xanthi is analyzed with the plastochron index to estimate the relationship between corolla growth and time. The plastochron of leaves 9 through 20 declines steadily at each successive node. The flower plastochron increases steadily during the growth of an individual cyme, with the most distal flower to open having the longest plastochron. Variation in the flower plastochron is the result of variation in the rate of flower initiation, not the growth rate of individual flowers. The corolla has an extended phase of approximately constant relative growth in length (between 0.2 · d–1 and 0.3 · d–1) until a peak of growth (0.5 · d–1) 2–3 d before anthesis. Corollas also have periodic peaks and troughs of growth that are low in amplitude (0.1 · d–1), but persist throughout most of corolla development. The pattern of corolla expansion contrasts strongly with earlier reports of the pattern of tobacco leaf growth.Abbreviations PI
plastochron index
- PR
plastochron ratio
- RGR
relative growth rate in length
The authors thank: Drs. T. Sage and E.G. Williams for the considerable time and space they invested; the members of Dr. R. Wyatt's laboratory for allowing us to use their computer facilities; A. Tull and M. Smith for their care taken in the green-house. This research was supported by U.S. Department of Agriculture grant GAM-89-01056 and by National Science Foundation grant DCB-87-15799. |
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Keywords: | Corolla development Flower growth Growth rate relative Heteroblasty Nicotiana (corolla growth) Plastochron |
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