Speaker
Description
This poster centres around exploring the flowering response potential of Lemna minor, a species not known to be able to flower in laboratory conditions. We use phylogenetic assays to identify potential regulators of flowering in L. minor to better understand the potential mechanism behind flowering in this species, and use modern molecular biology to identify the regulation of these elements in conditions designed to induce flowering. We also explore the function of orthologous components in Lemna aequinoctialis, a species of duckweed known for its capacity to flower to better understand the mechanism present, and potentially relate its functionality to other Lemna species.
Keywords
Flowering, FT, Lemna, minor, aequinoctialis
References
Yoshida A, Taoka K, Hosaka A, Tanaka K, Kobayashi H, Muranaka T, Toyooka K, Oyama T and Tsuji H (2021) Characterization of Frond and Flower Development and Identification of FT and FD Genes From Duckweed Lemna aequinoctialis Nd. Front. Plant Sci. 12:697206. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.697206
Kumiko Miwa, Masayuki Serikawa, Sayaka Suzuki, Takao Kondo, Tokitaka Oyama, Conserved Expression Profiles of Circadian Clock-related Genes in Two Lemna Species Showing Long-day and Short-day Photoperiodic Flowering Responses, Plant and Cell Physiology, Volume 47, Issue 5, May 2006, Pages 601–612, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcj027,
