TY - JOUR
T1 - Glucose inhibits the shoot bud formation in the moss Bryum billarderi
AU - Zavala, Arturo Martínez
AU - Pérez, Netzahualcoyotl Mayek
AU - Becerra, Analilia Arroyo
AU - López, Miguel Angel Villalobos
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the National Council for Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT; grants 62174 and 84411) and SIP-IPN grant 20091554 for financial support. Costs of publication were supported by Fondo Mixto of the goverment of Tamaulipas. AMZ is grateful to the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico for financial support of his PhD studies. NMP is National System of Researchers (SNI-CONACYT), COFAA and EDI-IPN scholar, AAB and MAVL are COFAA and EDI-IPN scholars.
PY - 2012/8
Y1 - 2012/8
N2 - Plant development is controlled by certain factors such as nutrient availability, environmental cues and the presence of signalling molecules. It has been proposed that phytohormones interact with sugars to modulate important processes in vascular plants. Cytokinins are key hormones because they regulate a large number of metabolic events, and sugars act as regulatory signals at several points in the life cycle. Bryum bilarderi Schwägr is a moss that was isolated by our group in the central highlands of Mexico and has demonstrated the ability to tolerate abiotic stresses. To study the effect of cytokinins and their interaction with glucose in bud induction, different concentrations of cytokinins with glucose were tested. One micromolar N-6-benzylaminopurine provided the best results for bud induction, but when 100 mM glucose was added, bud formation was inhibited. This glucose concentration also favoured the spread of the protonemal colony. These data demonstrate that N-6-benzylaminopurine is more effective than kinetin in inducing buds, and that glucose plays an important role as an inhibitory signalling molecule for the bud induction process that is mediated by cytokinins in the moss B. billarderi.
AB - Plant development is controlled by certain factors such as nutrient availability, environmental cues and the presence of signalling molecules. It has been proposed that phytohormones interact with sugars to modulate important processes in vascular plants. Cytokinins are key hormones because they regulate a large number of metabolic events, and sugars act as regulatory signals at several points in the life cycle. Bryum bilarderi Schwägr is a moss that was isolated by our group in the central highlands of Mexico and has demonstrated the ability to tolerate abiotic stresses. To study the effect of cytokinins and their interaction with glucose in bud induction, different concentrations of cytokinins with glucose were tested. One micromolar N-6-benzylaminopurine provided the best results for bud induction, but when 100 mM glucose was added, bud formation was inhibited. This glucose concentration also favoured the spread of the protonemal colony. These data demonstrate that N-6-benzylaminopurine is more effective than kinetin in inducing buds, and that glucose plays an important role as an inhibitory signalling molecule for the bud induction process that is mediated by cytokinins in the moss B. billarderi.
KW - Bryophyte developmental biology
KW - Bryum billarderi
KW - Bud formation
KW - Cytokinins
KW - Glucose
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U2 - 10.2478/s11535-012-0056-x
DO - 10.2478/s11535-012-0056-x
M3 - Artículo
SN - 1895-104X
VL - 7
SP - 648
EP - 654
JO - Central European Journal of Biology
JF - Central European Journal of Biology
IS - 4
ER -