Fruit-dependent epigenetic regulation of flowering in Citrus

In many perennial plants, seasonal flowering is primarily controlled by environmental conditions, but in certain polycarpic plants, environmental signals are locally gated by the presence of developing fruits initiated in the previous season through an unknown mechanism. Polycarpy is defined as the...

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Autores principales: Agustí, Manuel, Mesejo, Carlos, Munoz-Fambuena, Natalia, Vera-Sirera, Francisco, De-Lucas, Miguel, Martínez-Fuentes, Amparo, Reig, Carmina, Iglesias, Domingo J., Primo-Millo, Eduardo, Blazquez, Miguel A.
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2020
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6308
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author Agustí, Manuel
Mesejo, Carlos
Munoz-Fambuena, Natalia
Vera-Sirera, Francisco
De-Lucas, Miguel
Martínez-Fuentes, Amparo
Reig, Carmina
Iglesias, Domingo J.
Primo-Millo, Eduardo
Blazquez, Miguel A.
author_browse Agustí, Manuel
Blazquez, Miguel A.
De-Lucas, Miguel
Iglesias, Domingo J.
Martínez-Fuentes, Amparo
Mesejo, Carlos
Munoz-Fambuena, Natalia
Primo-Millo, Eduardo
Reig, Carmina
Vera-Sirera, Francisco
author_facet Agustí, Manuel
Mesejo, Carlos
Munoz-Fambuena, Natalia
Vera-Sirera, Francisco
De-Lucas, Miguel
Martínez-Fuentes, Amparo
Reig, Carmina
Iglesias, Domingo J.
Primo-Millo, Eduardo
Blazquez, Miguel A.
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description In many perennial plants, seasonal flowering is primarily controlled by environmental conditions, but in certain polycarpic plants, environmental signals are locally gated by the presence of developing fruits initiated in the previous season through an unknown mechanism. Polycarpy is defined as the ability of plants to undergo several rounds of reproduction during their lifetime, alternating vegetative and reproductive meristems in the same individual. To understand how fruits regulate flowering in polycarpic plants, we focused on alternate bearing in Citrus trees that had been experimentally established as fully flowering or nonflowering. We found that the presence of the fruit causes epigenetic changes correlating with the induction of the CcMADS19 floral repressor, which prevents the activation of the floral promoter CiFT2 even in the presence of the floral inductive signals. By contrast, newly emerging shoots display an opposite epigenetic scenario associated with CcMADS19 repression, thereby allowing the activation of CiFT2 the following cold season.
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spelling ReDivia63082025-04-25T14:46:49Z Fruit-dependent epigenetic regulation of flowering in Citrus Agustí, Manuel Mesejo, Carlos Munoz-Fambuena, Natalia Vera-Sirera, Francisco De-Lucas, Miguel Martínez-Fuentes, Amparo Reig, Carmina Iglesias, Domingo J. Primo-Millo, Eduardo Blazquez, Miguel A. In many perennial plants, seasonal flowering is primarily controlled by environmental conditions, but in certain polycarpic plants, environmental signals are locally gated by the presence of developing fruits initiated in the previous season through an unknown mechanism. Polycarpy is defined as the ability of plants to undergo several rounds of reproduction during their lifetime, alternating vegetative and reproductive meristems in the same individual. To understand how fruits regulate flowering in polycarpic plants, we focused on alternate bearing in Citrus trees that had been experimentally established as fully flowering or nonflowering. We found that the presence of the fruit causes epigenetic changes correlating with the induction of the CcMADS19 floral repressor, which prevents the activation of the floral promoter CiFT2 even in the presence of the floral inductive signals. By contrast, newly emerging shoots display an opposite epigenetic scenario associated with CcMADS19 repression, thereby allowing the activation of CiFT2 the following cold season. 2020-02-21T11:51:31Z 2020-02-21T11:51:31Z 2020 article acceptedVersion Agusti, M., Mesejo, C., Munoz-Fambuena, N., Vera-Sirera, F., de Lucas, M., Martinez-Fuentes, A., . . . Blazquez, M. A. (2020). Fruit-dependent epigenetic regulation of flowering in Citrus. New Phytologist, 225(1), 376-384. doi:10.1111/nph.16044 0028-646X http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6308 10.1111/nph.16044 en openAccess electronico
spellingShingle Agustí, Manuel
Mesejo, Carlos
Munoz-Fambuena, Natalia
Vera-Sirera, Francisco
De-Lucas, Miguel
Martínez-Fuentes, Amparo
Reig, Carmina
Iglesias, Domingo J.
Primo-Millo, Eduardo
Blazquez, Miguel A.
Fruit-dependent epigenetic regulation of flowering in Citrus
title Fruit-dependent epigenetic regulation of flowering in Citrus
title_full Fruit-dependent epigenetic regulation of flowering in Citrus
title_fullStr Fruit-dependent epigenetic regulation of flowering in Citrus
title_full_unstemmed Fruit-dependent epigenetic regulation of flowering in Citrus
title_short Fruit-dependent epigenetic regulation of flowering in Citrus
title_sort fruit dependent epigenetic regulation of flowering in citrus
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6308
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