Claim · model-written summary
Flavonol production in either anthers or pistils was required for seed set.
- Taxon
- Petunia hybrida
Petunia ×hybridat0 - Organ / stage
- anthers or the pistilse0
- Outcome
- seed sete0
- Qualifier
- production of flavonolse0
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Verbatim
e0“the production of flavonols in either the anthers or the pistils was required for pollen tube growth and seed set.”
t0“Petunia hybrida”
Title
Bauke Ylstra; Jacqueline Busscher; John Franken; et al. The Plant Journal 1994. doi:10.1046/j.1365-313x.1994.6020201.x
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Flavonols and chs mRNA were abundant in male and female reproductive organs.
- Observation The chs promoter and flavonol synthesis were spatially and temporally regulated in stigma, style and ovules.
- Intervention effect Antisense inhibition of chs blocked flavonol biosynthesis.
- Intervention effect Flavonol absence rendered mutant plants self sterile.
- Mechanism Flavonol production in either anthers or pistils was required for pollen tube growth.
- Observation Flavonol deficient mutant pollen germinated normally.
- Observation Mutant pollen tubes ruptured after a short period in vitro and pollen grains died.
- Intervention effect Flavonol aglycones rescued the mutant pollen tube phenotype.
- Intervention effect Other flavonoids did not rescue the mutant pollen tube phenotype.
- Observation Wild type pollen tubes contained high flavonol levels throughout.
- Observation Flavonols were not detected in growing tube exine or cell wall.
- Intervention effect Apigenin completely inhibited pollen tube growth.