Claim · model-written summary
The rate of tissue expansion varied greatly across environments.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuust0 - Outcome
- rate of tissue expansione0
- Direction
- varied greatlye0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“sunflower”
e0“the rate of tissue expansion varied greatly”
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)
- Method / resource A method was developed to quantify tissue expansion in the sunflower meristem during floret initiation from meristem area, floret number and primordium size.
- 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.
- 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.