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Regulating bulb dormancy release and flowering in lily through chemical modulation of intercellular communication

  • Plant Methods. 2023 Nov 28;19(1):136. doi: 10.1186/s13007-023-01113-y.
Yajie Zhao 1,  Wenqiang Pan 1,  Yin Xin 1,  Jingxiang Wu 1,  Rong Li 1,  Jinxin Shi 1,  Shuo Long 1,  Lianwei Qu 2,  Yingdong Yang 2,  Mingfang Yi 1,  Jian Wu 3
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Affiliations

  • 1 Beijing Key Laboratory of Development and Quality Control of Ornamental Crops, Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian, Beijing, 100193, China.
  • 2 Institute of Floriculture, Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenyang, 110161, China.
  • 3 Beijing Key Laboratory of Development and Quality Control of Ornamental Crops, Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian, Beijing, 100193, China. [email protected].
PMID: 38012626 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-023-01113-y
Abstract

Lily is a bulbous plant with an endogenous dormancy trait. Fine-tuning bulb dormancy release is still a challenge in the development of bulb storage technology. In this study, we identified three regulators of symplastic transport, 2,3-Butanedione oxime (BDM), N-Ethyl maleimide (NEM), and 2-Deoxy-D-glucose (DDG), that also regulate bulb dormancy release. We demonstrated that BDM and DDG inhibited callose synthesis between cells and promoted symplastic transport and soluble sugars in the shoot apical meristem (SAM), eventually accelerating bulb dormancy release and flowering in lilies. Conversely, NEM had the opposite effect. These three regulators can be flexibly applied to either accelerate or delay lily bulb dormancy release.

Keywords

BDM; Bulb dormancy release; DDG; Flowering; Lily; NEM; Symplastic transport.

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