Claim · model-written summary
A method was developed to quantify tissue expansion in the sunflower meristem during floret initiation from meristem area, floret number and primordium size.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuust0 - Outcome
- quantify tissue expansion in the meristeme0
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Verbatim
t0“sunflower”
e0“A method was developed to quantify tissue expansion in the meristem during floret initiation from measurements of meristem area, number of florets and primordium size”
Title
Guillermo A. A. Dosio; François Tardieu; Olivier Turc New Phytologist 2006. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01702.x
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Initially floret initiation and tissue expansion occurred simultaneously at the meristem surface.
- Intervention effect The duration of the initial simultaneous phase remained unchanged across light environments.
- Observation The rate of tissue expansion varied greatly across environments.
- Association Floret initiation rate depended on meristem initial size and tissue-expansion rate.
- Observation Afterwards floret initiation continued without tissue expansion, causing a rapid decrease of meristem area.
- Method / resource A set of equations was proposed to predict floret initiation rate and floret number from tissue expansion rates in the meristem.
- Mechanism The formalism demonstrated a role for tissue expansion in determining the final number of florets.