Molecular Cues for Phenological Events in the Flowering Cycle in Avocado
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Result
2.1. Flowering in Avocado in Queensland, Australia
2.2. Avocado Contains Multiple Copies of Floral Genes
2.3. Gene Expression Analysis in Avocado Leaves
2.4. PaCO and PaFT Are Not Co-Regulated in the Inner and Outer Canopy Leaves
2.5. SOC1-SPL4 Module
2.6. Gene Expression Analysis in Avocado Terminal Buds
2.7. Abundance of miR156 and miR172 in Avocado Crop Cycle
3. Discussion
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Transcript Identification
4.2. Phylogenetic Analysis
4.3. Tissue Collection, Handing, Grinding
4.4. RNA Extraction, cDNA Synthesis and qRT-PCR for miRNA Analysis
4.5. RNA Extraction, cDNA Synthesis and qRT-PCR for Gene Quantification
4.6. Data Analysis
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Ahsan, M.U.; Barbier, F.; Hayward, A.; Powell, R.; Hofman, H.; Parfitt, S.C.; Wilkie, J.; Beveridge, C.A.; Mitter, N. Molecular Cues for Phenological Events in the Flowering Cycle in Avocado. Plants 2023, 12, 2304. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12122304
Ahsan MU, Barbier F, Hayward A, Powell R, Hofman H, Parfitt SC, Wilkie J, Beveridge CA, Mitter N. Molecular Cues for Phenological Events in the Flowering Cycle in Avocado. Plants. 2023; 12(12):2304. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12122304
Chicago/Turabian StyleAhsan, Muhammad Umair, Francois Barbier, Alice Hayward, Rosanna Powell, Helen Hofman, Siegrid Carola Parfitt, John Wilkie, Christine Anne Beveridge, and Neena Mitter. 2023. "Molecular Cues for Phenological Events in the Flowering Cycle in Avocado" Plants 12, no. 12: 2304. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12122304