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JOURNAL OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATION
Volume 31, Issue 4, Pages 478-489Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00344-011-9257-1
Keywords
Cone gender; Lodgepole pine; Long-shoot bud; Genotype; Phytohormone profile
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- British Columbia Forest Investment Account, Forest Genetics Conservation and Management Program under the Business Plan of the Forest Genetics Council of British Columbia (FGCBC)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Program
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In lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. var. latifolia Engelm), cone initiation and gender differentiation are site-specific in long-shoot buds, with female cones in the distal portion and male cones in the proximal portion. By using high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-ESI-MS/MS) in multiple-reaction monitoring (MRM) mode, cytokinins, indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), abscisic acid (ABA), and their selected metabolites were investigated in developing long-shoot buds from multiple genotypes. Spatially, higher concentrations of trans-zeatin riboside (t-ZR) and dihydrozeatin riboside (dhZR) existed in the distal parts of long-shoot buds, whereas concentrations of isopentenyl adenosine (iPA), IAA, ABA glucose ester (ABA-GE), and phaseic acid (PA) were higher in the proximal parts in all investigated genotypes. In long-shoot buds of genotypes with a history of high female cone yield, concentrations of t-ZR and the ratio of zeatin-type to isopentenyl-type cytokinins were higher in the entire buds, whereas dhZR or IAA was higher in either the distal or the proximal part, respectively. In low female cone yielding genotypes, concentrations of c-ZR, iPA, ABA-GE, and PA were higher in both of the parts. Temporally, concentrations of several hormone-related compounds showed obvious changes in late June and late July, prior to male and female cone bud differentiation. This study reveals that the local hormonal status in a long-shoot bud at specific developmental stages may play an important role in gender determination and cone yield.
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