molecular and genetic analysis of floral induction is an integrated approach, taking into consideration various genes involved in the four major pathways of flowering process
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Characteristics of Florigen
Mechanism of action
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Other functions of Florigen
Mechanism of action during other functions
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1.
2.Apical dominance is the phenomenon in which the main stem of the plant is dominant over the
side lateral stems.The dominance is mainly due to the exclusive control of terminal bud present
at shoot apex over the growth of lateral bud present in the lateral shoots.This allows the plant to
grow only vertically.
3.Determinate growth means the growth continues till a structure is formed and stops after that
while indeterminate growth never terminates and the growth continues.The meristem tissues
undergo indeterminate growth and therefore function in active division of plant parts such as
stem and roots.
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vertical axis of the plant that consists of nodes and internodes.It consists of three tissues,
dermal,ground and vascular tissues.Leaves consists of upper and lower epidermis with a
mesophyll layer in betwee them.There is an upper palisade layer and a lower spongy layer in the
mesophyll.Presence of green pigment called chlorophyll present in the leaves to carry out
photosynthesis.Roots function to absorb water and dissolve nutrients from the soil and help the
plant to anchor in the soil. Stems provide support to the plant and and transport water and food
throughout the plant. Leaves function in photosynthesis and gaseous exchange.
5.When there is an increase in the length of stem and the root of plant , it is known as primary
growth. It results due to the division of cell present at the apical meristem of stem and
roots.Lateral roots are formed by division of cells present in the pericycle of the xylem radius of
the root.
6.Morphogenesis is the process by which an organism starts to develop its morphology i.e
size,shape and structure while differentiation is the process by which cells or tissues or organs
develop specialised characters the development process while growth is the process by which the
cell increases in size.
7.According to the ABC hypothesis,there are 3 classes of genes known as A,B and C that are
transcription factors required to form different whorls of the flower. A genes form whor.
The outermost layer is termed as epiblema.
Cuticle and stomata are absent.
Cortex is formed of parenchymatous cells.
Endodermis is well developed.
Pericycle is distinct.
Vascular bundles are radial.
Xylem is exarch.
Phloem consists of sieve tubes, companion cells and phloem parenchyma. (In monocots however, the phloem parenchyma is absent).
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1. Physiology of Flowering: Floral induction
theories/models: ABC model, Photoperiodism and
Vernalisation
BY
B. PAVAN KUMAR NAIK
DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE
2. Physiology of Flowering
• Animals and plants significantly differ in their developmental pattern. In case of
animals, organogenesis occurs at the stages of embryonic development; whereas, it
occurs as post-embryonic development in case of plants.
• This implies that most organs are spatially regulated in animals, while they are
temporally regulated in plants.
• The main reason behind this is the two important processes, viz. cell migration,
which is totally absent in plants, and programmed cell death, which does not
contribute in a major way to the plant development.
• However, the lack of cell migration in plants is overcome by means of the other two
important processes, viz. the rate of cell division at various tissues and the plane of
cell division (anticlinal and periclinal).
• Since embryos in plants are seated deep within the ovaries and ovules, the
understanding of the plant development has been delayed.
• However, its study is more amazing and gives astonishing truth of the evolutionary
aspects too.
• A plant mostly develops from the seed, which in turn develops from the floral
organs. Invariably all angiosperms conserve the concentric pattern of
flowering — sepals, petals, stamens and carpels — irrespective of colour or size.
• A flower temporally arises from the meristem, from where the leaves are given out
till then. These two fascinating aspects lead to the unravelling of facts about the
development of flowers and have been covered in brief in the present review.
3. Basics of Flowering
• Flowers, in general, are derived from shoot apical meristem (SAM)—a
collection of undifferentiated cells set aside during embryogenesis—from
where leaves, flowers and other appendages are temporally segregated such
that leaves occur in earlier part and the flowers in later part of the plants’
life cycle.
• Those plant species that are determinate in nature, SAM finally reorganizes
itself directly into a floral meristem as in sunflower (Helianthus annus) or
through the inflorescence meristem that finally gives rise to the floral
meristem as in rice (Oryza sativa); whereas, in case of indeterminate plant
species, flowers will be formed on the lateral branches or through lateral
inflorescence called as ‘co- inflorescence’.
• Hence, in indeterminate plant species, SAM persists and continues to
produce floral meristem laterally. Thus, both vegetative and reproductive
phases occur simultaneously.
Koornneef M, Alonso-Blanco C, Peeters A J M & Soppe, Genetic control of flowering
time in Arabidopsis, Annu Rev Plant Physiol Plant Mol Biol, 49 (1998) 345-370.
4. Conti…
• Irrespective of any species of angiosperm, the floral meristem generates a
fixed array of organ primordia, wherein each primordia adopts itself to a
specific fate that never changes—sepal, petal, stamen and carpel— and
according to their relative position in the flower bud which shows that the
organ primordia of a floral meristem are spatially regulated in the
concentric whorls in the order as mentioned above.
• This is explained later with the biophysical and the ABC models.
• An important point to be noted in the basics of flowering is competence.
• Thus, only those plants that have competence to produce inflorescence start
the flowering process, i.e. they receive and respond to the signal for
flowering.
• In other words, only those plants that possess competence can flower when
the signal for flowering is perceived.
Weigel D & Nilsson O, Developmental switch sufficient for flower initiation in diverse
plants, Nature (Lond), 377 (1995) 495-500.
5. Process of Flowering
• Though it is not clearly demarcated, the process
of flowering is classed into four steps, namely
floral induction/evocation, floral initiation,
identification of organ primordia (determination)
and identification of organ specificity
(differentiation), for the ease of research.
• Of which, the former two stages are considered as
the phase I and are called flower initiation.
• While, the latter two stages are considered as
phase II of the process of flowering and are called
floral development.
6. Conti…
• Floral induction or evocation is a very important process that deals with the transition from
the vegetative to reproductive phase.
• It involves various changes at cellular and molecular level that causes the SAM to reorganize
itself to the inflorescence/floral meristem or to produce the inflorescence/floral meristem
laterally by maintaining the SAM.
• Once the transition from vegetative to reproductive phase is made, the second step—floral
initiation starts up.
• In case of inflorescence meristem, they further develop and produce floral meristem, from
where flowers develop.
• In cases where there is no inflorescence meristem, these two stages are blended such that they
occur simultaneously and no clear demarcation is made.
• As the floral meristem forms, they determine themselves for the formation of four floral
primordia—sepals, petals, stamen and carpel—that are regulated spatially and are best
explained by the ABC and the biophysical models.
• It is at this stage where the organs of identity are determined and are maintained in concentric
whorls due to the absence of the internodes. Here, though, we cannot identify the organs, the
fate of the cells at the floral meristem is decided.
Bernier G, The control of floral evocation and morphogenesis, Ann Rev Plant Physiol Plant Mol
Biol, 39 (1988) 175-217.
7. Conti…
• The last and final stage of the process of flowering is the
differentiation of the organ identity or organ primordia that are
determined by their fate during the third stage of flowering.
• They grow from here towards their phenotypic expression by the
growth of the individual organ primordia into a complete organ that
are clearly distinguishable from the others.
• This stage leads to the development of a mature flower that may
range from incomplete to complete or imperfect to perfect flower.
• The present review is focused on the mechanisms involved in the
development of these four stages; the models that are proposed for
explanation and the genes involved in these mechanism of action.
Okada K & Shimura Y, Genetic analyses of signaling in flower development
using Arabidopsis, Plant Mol Biol, 26 (1994) 1357-1377.
8. Proposed Models for Flowering
Mechanism
• Positional Information Theory
• Reaction-Diffusion Theory
• Biophysical Theory
• ABC Model of Flowering
• MCDK Model of Flowering
9. Positional Information Theory
• In 1979, Holder proposed the first and foremost
theory for the flower development, which is
known as positional information theory.
• According to the theory, the floral hormone level
is thought to specify the floral responses to
general positional cues provided by a morphogen
system.
• However, there are no answers for floral
determination etc., from the view of
developmental biology.
10. Reaction-Diffusion Theory
• Meinhardt, in 1982, proposed a 2-D pattern in
the meristem for flowering in terms of the
concentration profiles of a pair of morphogens,
viz. activator and inhibitor, that decides the
plant to flower or not to flower.
• These two theories though answered some
questions but left many of them unanswered,
like the uniqueness of stamens, etc.
11. Biophysical Theory
• These earlier two theories when couldn't answer many
questions, Green postulated a theory in 1988, called
Biophysical theory.
• It unravelled the natures’ secret regarding the aspects of
flowering and answered almost all the questions from
the conservativeness of the floral arrangement to the
uniqueness of the stamen.
• Biophysical theory is mainly based on the principle that
various organs are formed based on the differences or
changes which occur in the cellulose reinforcement
pattern during cell wall formation of those cells that are
at the surface layers of the organs to be formed
12. ABC Model of Flowering
• In 1991, Coen and Meyerowitz postulated a model
especially for organ identity, which is known as ABC
model of flowering.
• To explain how the homeotic genes control the organ
identity, this model gives a clear idea in a simple way
for the organ identity in each of the four whorls.
• As already mentioned above, these whorls are
concentric due to the fact that they lack internodes.
• In a unique way, this model proposes that organ identity
in each whorl is determined by the activities of three
homeotic organ identity genes, namely A, B and C.
13. Conti…
• The activity of type A specifies sepals and the activities of type A and B
petals, whereas the activities of type B and C are required for stamens and
the activity of type C for carpels.
• In Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale cress), the homeotic gene activity of A
involves the gene called APETALA1 (AP1) and AP2.
• So, the mutant of A causes the sepals and petals to convert into carpels and
stamens, respectively.
• The homeotic gene activity of B involves the genes called AP3 and
PISTILLATA (PI).
• The mutant of B causes the petals and stamens to convert into sepals and
carpels, respectively.
• Further, the homeotic gene activity of C involves the gene called
AGAMOUS (AG).
14. Conti…
• So, the mutant of C activity causes the stamens and carpels to
convert to petals and sepals, respectively.
• This shows that A and C genes are mutually repressive, that is if A
genes are absent, then C class genes are expressed throughout
the flower and if C genes are absent, then A class genes are
expressed throughout the flower.
• Thus, by combining all these, they act like a chain for the
recognition of the surrounding whorls.
• Similar gene activities have also been observed in a distantly related
dicot plant, Antirrhinum majus (Snapdragon).
Pelaz S, Ditta G S, Baumann E, Wisman E & Yanofsky M F, B and C floral
organ identity functions require SEPALLATA MADS box genes, Nature (Lond),
405 (2000) 200-203.
15. Conti…
• Here, the gene activity of A involves the genes OVULATA (OVU) and
SQUAMOSA (SQUA) in snapdragon, which are similar to AP2 and AP1
genes respectively in Thale cress. Similarly, the gene activity B involves
genes called DEFICIENS (DEF), GLOBOSA (GLO), and
SEPALOIDEA (SEP) that have similar effect of PI and AP3 of Thale cress.
While the gene activity of C involves PLENA (PLE) that shows similarity
with AG.
• It is also observed that AP3 is homologous to DEF; and AG is homologous
to PLE. In case of double mutant AB, carpels are formed in all the four
whorls and, in double mutant BC, sepals are formed in all the four whorls.
• In the triple mutant ABC, the whorls are very much like vegetative leaves
with stipules. The double mutant AC is similar to the triple mutant AC, as B
doesn’t have any activity by its own.
Simon R, Carpenter R, Doyle S & Coen E, Fimbriata controls flower development by
mediating between meristem and organ identity genes, Cell, 78 (1994) 99-107.
16. MCDK Model of Flowering
• In 1994, Martinez-Zapter et al postulated MCDK model, which
states that floral repressors are expressed during the vegetative phase
and when plants receive proper endogenous and exogenous signals
after attaining the competence, these floral repressors are down
regulated, resulting in the flowering of plants.
• It is also authenticated by the presence of miRNAs—the RNAs of
approximately 21-nucleotide length—whose function is to down
regulate the mRNAs of their complementary sequence and they are
never translated to protein.
• They are different from siRNAs. miRNA172 that targets AP2 gene
for early flowering was also identified.
Bartel B & Bartel D, MicroRNAs: At the root of plant development? Plant
Physiol, 132 (2003) 709-717.
17. Conti…
• On the basis of different models discussed
above, it can be said that the entire floral
development process takes place in four
stages.
18. Floral Induction Stage
• It is the first stage of flower development and occurs
only in those plants that possess competence.
• A cell or group of cells is said to be competent if it can
respond in an expected manner especially for
flowering.
• They may cause floral induction based on the levels of
exogenous (environmental) and endogenous factors
(signals).
• The clonal analysis in corn indicated that about four
cells of the meristem at the dry-seed stage are
committed to produce the terminal male inflorescence
or tassel
19. Conti…
• So, in all plants, except corn, shoot meristem are
characterized by the absence of the permanent apical initials
and the central zone of relatively inactive cells, found in
many vegetative meristems, is not generally a meristeme d'
atente—the germ line in plants that was composed by a
group of quiescent cells in SAM—which was placed in
reserve during vegetative growth.
• Some genes that have been identified for competence are
SN and DNE—the genes that expresses themselves in
leaves—and their activity is decreased as the plant ages.
• Thus, these two genes maintain the juvenility up to certain
time and then their activity gets reduced.
20. Conti…
• Once, their action gets reduced, plants start
flowering.
• Gene HR blocks the decline in the activities of SN
and DNE genes as age proceeds and, hence,
lengthens the juvenile phase.
• The best example is the production of the
vegetative growth in the older stems that have
competence to flower due to the activation of HR
gene that maintains juvenility by blocking the
degradation of the SN and DNE gene activity.
21. Conti…
• Gene LF acts at the apex and influences its competence, which
responds to the balance between floral promoters and inhibitors.
• Once competence is achieved, the floral evocation or induction
starts taking place by means of exogenous and endogenous factors9.
• The most important exogenous (photoperiod, vernalization, stress,
nutrients) and endogenous (florigen/antiflorigen concept, electrical
signal concept and multifactorial control by PGR) factors that
influence the flowering are:
• Photoperiod
• Vernalization
• Stress
• Florigen/Antiflorigen Concept
• Electrical Signal Concept
• Multifactorial Control by PGR
22. Photoperiod
• A detailed study of photoperiod in relation to flowering was undertaken through
homeotic mutants and from which more than 40 mutants from 12 loci are identified
and are grouped into three phenotypic classes.
• The first class of mutants is sensitive to both photoperiod and vernalization.
• The mutants identified under this class are fca, fpa, fve, fy, and ld. The second class
of mutants is insensitive to both and they are co and gi.
• They are assumed to be responsible for flowering in the day neutral plants.
• While the last class of mutants is sensitive only to photoperiod and insensitive to
vernalization.
• The mutants identified in this class are fe, fd, fhc, ft, and fwa. Later on, attempts
were made to clone all the late flowering genes by chromosome walking or tagging.
Putterill J, Robson F, Lee K & Coupland G, Chromosome walking with YAC clones in Arabidopsis:
Isolation of 1700kb of contiguous DNA on chromosome 5, including a 300kb region containing the
flowering time gene co, Mol Gen Genet, 239 (1993) 145-157.
23. Vernalization
• Vernalization is also one of the major and important
exogenous controls of the flowering in plants.
• In case of long day plants, cooling causes flowering;
whereas, in case of short day plants, warm temperature
causes flowering.
• Till now only one gene related to vernalization has been
identified, i.e. VERNALIZATION INSENSITIVE (VRN).
Searle N E, Physiology of flowering, Annu Rev Plant Physiol, 16
(1965) 97-118.
24. Stress
• Stress causes flowering in an indirect way, e.g.
the water stress causes the plant to produce a
protein called osmotin that acts as an
endogenous signal for flowering.
• In a nutshell, the genes involved in the
exogenous control and their respective mutant
phenotype.
25. The genes responsible for flowering and their mutant phenotype
Genes Mutant Phenotype
Late flowering
Late flowering
( fca, fd, fe, fha, fri, fpa, ft, fve, fy, gi,
fwa)
Delayed flowering Lee I, Aukerman M J, Rore S L. 1994
Putterill J 1993
Luminidependens (ld) Delayed flowering Meeks-Wagner D R, Dennis E S 1989
Constans (co) Delayed flowering Koornneef M, Hanhart C J
Vernalization insensitive (vrn) Delayed flowering Martinez-Zapter J M & Somerville C R
Late flowering in SD
Gibberellin insensitive (gai) Delayed flowering Wilson R N, Heckman J W 1992
Gibberellin requiring (ga 1) Delayed flowering Richards D E, King K E, Ait-Ali T 2001
Early flowering
Early flowering - 1, 2, 3 (elf - 1, 2, 3) Early flowering Goto N, Kumagai T & Koornneef M 1991
Embryonic flowering - 1, 2 (emf - 1,
2)
Inflorescence meristem without
vegetative growth
Halliday K J, Koornneef M 1994
Long hypocotyl - 1, 2 (hy - 1, 2) Causes early flowering and long
hypocotyl
Reed J W, Nagatini A 1994
26. Florigen/Antiflorigen Concept
• In photoperiod sensitive plants, all photo-induced leaves types are supposed to produce
florigen and, in contrast, antiflorigen in non-induced leaves.
• Similar florigen, if not identical, has been found out in all plants tested from eight families,
like Solanaceae, Crassulaceae, etc.
• Floral induction occurs when the balance of florigen and antiflorigen at the meristem is
shifted in favour of florigen.
• Recently, An et al have showed that the gene CONSTANS (CO) regulates the level of florigen
that is produced as a systemic signal in the leaves and has been transported from leaves to
meristem through phloem.
• Total ethanol extract from leaves of short day and long day of tobaccos, both grown in short
day, consistently caused flower formation when sprayed on the seedlings of SDP
Chenopodium sp. kept in long day and concluded that florigen is composed of two
complementary materials, viz. a hypothetical anthesis produced in short day by both short day
and long day plants, and GA produced in long day by both short day and long day plant.
An H, Roussot C, Suarez-Lopez P, Corbesier L, Vincent C, et al, Constans acts in the phloem to
regulate a systemic signal that induces photoperiodic flowering of Arabidopsis, Development, 131
(2004) 3615-3626
27. Electrical Signal Concept
• When various stimuli such as wounding, etc.,
are made to one part of the plant, it exerts an
effect onother parts of the plant by transport of
chemical through symplast.
• In some cases, a signal is found to propagate
waves of electric depolarization by means of
the fast moving electrophysiological signal.
However, numerous attempts to detect this
transmission have been failed.
28. Multifactorial Control by PGR
• In this concept, the floral induction was caused due to the action of the
PGR, like gibberellins and cytokinins.
• Though all PGRs cause the floral induction, the above-mentioned two
PGRs have a significant role in the process of floral induction.
• The action of gibberellins in the flowering of corm species, Polianthes
tuberosa L. (cv. Double) has been elucidated.
• Wherein the endogenous gibberellins are isolated and identified by HPLC,
bioassay, and GC- MS. Gibberellins, GA1, GA19, GA20 and GA53 are
quantified at three stages, viz. vegetative, early flower initiation and flower
developmental stages, and was found that an increase in GA1 and GA20
with a simultaneous decrease in GA19 levels coincided with the transition
from the vegetative phase to the stages of floral initiation; whereas, GA53
stayed at constant level in all the stages.
• Thus, it shows that, during flowering in P. tuberosa, there is a conversion of
GAs in the decreasing order of GA53>GA19>GA20>GA1.