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Reproductive failure in Arabidopsis thaliana under transient carbohydrate limitation: flowers and very young siliques are jettisoned and the meristem is maintained to allow successful resumption of reproductive growth.
Plant, cell & environment - 1 Apr 2016
Lauxmann Martin A, Annunziata Maria G, Brunoud Géraldine, Wahl Vanessa, Koczut Andrzej, Burgos Asdrubal, Olas Justyna J, Maximova Eugenia, Abel Christin, Schlereth Armin, Soja Aleksandra M, Bläsing Oliver E, Lunn John E, Vernoux Teva, Stitt Mark
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The impact of transient carbon depletion on reproductive growth in Arabidopsis was investigated by transferring long-photoperiod-grown plants to continuous darkness and returning them to a light-dark cycle. After 2 days of darkness, carbon reserves were depleted in reproductive sinks, and RNA in situ hybridization of marker transcripts showed that carbon starvation responses had been initiated in the meristem,...
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