Simple Culture Methods and Treatment to Study Hormonal Regulation of Ovule Development.

ABSTRACT: Ovule development is one of the most important processes in the reproductive development of higher plants and is a determinant of seed quality and quantity. Phytohormones play key roles in this process since loss-of-function mutants in hormone signaling show defective ovule phenotypes and reduced fertility. However, it is difficult to distinguish the direct effects of hormones on ovule development because it is parts of reproductive development and the defective phenotypes would be the indirect effects following the defective vegetative development. The treatment of hormones is a direct method to investigate the hormonal regulation of ovule development, but ovule is embedded inside several layers of floral organs, and traditional methods for hormone (or inhibitor) treatments have various l

SUBMITTER: Li BF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6015908 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature