Despite their differences, rice and the commonly studied mustard weed share closely related flowering mechanisms.
Previous work has attempted to relate flower syndromes to the respective visual capabilities of the most important pollinators, but has often been limited by the lack of robust means to make between-species comparisons of how flower color signals are processed.
In a pre-analysis step of the data for each environment, ANOVA was used to compare the fit of linear, quadratic and cubic functions relating flowering time (measured as days to anthesis) to disease resistance for each rating × environment × population-specific combination.
In this model, only flower visitor abundance was related to flower visitor richness (Flower visitor abundance: F 1,63) = 22.80, p<0.0001; Genotype: F 20,63) = 1.09, p = 0.425), indicating that the effects of plant genotype on flower visitor richness were a consequence of plant traits that influence flower visitor abundance.
Thirty-one transcripts in our dataset were homologous to genes related to flowering and flower development in Arabidopsis (Table 2).
Analysis of the isolation and expression of the LOX gene in tea plant indicates that the acidic CsLOX1 together with its primary and end products plays an important role in regulating cell death related to flower senescence and the JA-related defensive reaction of the plant to phloem-feeders.
In the progression of plant growth and development, AINTEGUMENTA and AINTEGUMENTA-LIKE6 are related to flower organ growth and ovule development in Arabidopsis (Elliott et al. 1996; Jofuku et al. 1994; Klucher et al. 1996; Krizek 2009; Mizukami and Fischer 2000).
Fragrance is genetically related to flower colour (white, or pastel shades) and is a recessive characteristic, so that when fragrant and non fragrant varieties are crossed, not all progeny will be fragrant, whereas two fragrant progenitors will produce an all fragrant progeny.
Whether the "sulfur metabolic process" and "S-glycoside metabolic process" were also related to flower development and/or stress response needs to be further explored.
No literature has indicated that the YABBY 4 gene is related to flower development.
Our data suggests that these regions may be related to flower development and/or sex determination.
