Flower opening and closure: an update

Aquaporins: Highly Regulated Channels Controlling Plant Water Relations

(2014) F. Chaumont et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

JAGGED Controls Arabidopsis Petal Growth and Shape by Interacting with a Divergent Polarity Field

(2014) Susanna Sauret-Güeto et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A DELLA gene, RhGAI1, is a direct target of EIN3 and mediates ethylene-regulated rose petal cell expansion via repressing the expression of RhCesA2

(2013) Jing Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Analysis of functional redundancies within the Arabidopsis TCP transcription factor family

(2013) Selahattin Danisman et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Slow, fast and furious: understanding the physics of plant movements

(2013) Yoël Forterre   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

A Dominant Point Mutation in a RINGv E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Homoeologous Gene Leads to Cleistogamy in Brassica napus

(2013) Y.-H. Lu et al.   PLANT CELL

DELLA-Interacting SWI3C Core Subunit of Switch/Sucrose Nonfermenting Chromatin Remodeling Complex Modulates Gibberellin Responses and Hormonal Cross Talk in Arabidopsis

(2013) E. A. Sarnowska et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

An NAC Transcription Factor Controls Ethylene-Regulated Cell Expansion in Flower Petals

(2013) H. Pei et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The Cotton Transcription Factor TCP14 Functions in Auxin-Mediated Epidermal Cell Differentiation and Elongation

(2013) M.-Y. Wang et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Is flower/corolla closure linked to decrease in viability of desiccation-sensitive pollen? Facts and hypotheses: a review of current literature with the support of some new experimental data

(2013) G. G. Franchi et al.   PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

Detection and Learning of Floral Electric Fields by Bumblebees

(2013) D. Clarke et al.   SCIENCE

Developmental and evolutionary diversity of plant MADS-domain factors: insights from recent studies

(2012) C. Smaczniak et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Endogenous ethylene does not regulate opening of unstressed Iris flowers but strongly inhibits it in water-stressed flowers

(2012) Fisun G. Çelikel et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Opening of Iris flowers is regulated by endogenous auxins

(2012) Wouter G. van Doorn et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

RhNAC2 and RhEXPA4 Are Involved in the Regulation of Dehydration Tolerance during the Expansion of Rose Petals

(2012) F. Dai et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Histidine Kinase Activity of the Ethylene Receptor ETR1 Facilitates the Ethylene Response in Arabidopsis

(2012) B. P. Hall et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

How do plants feel the heat?

(2012) Ron Mittler et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

Linné’s floral clock is slow without pollinators - flower closure and plant-pollinator interaction webs

(2011) Jochen Fründ et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Cytoplasmic male sterility in Mimulus hybrids has pleiotropic effects on corolla and pistil traits

(2011) C M Barr et al.   HEREDITY

AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR8 Regulates Arabidopsis Petal Growth by Interacting with the bHLH Transcription Factor BIGPETALp

(2011) E. Varaud et al.   PLANT CELL

EOBII Controls Flower Opening by Functioning as a General Transcriptomic Switch

(2011) T. A. Colquhoun et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Growth, geometry, and mechanics of a blooming lily

(2011) H. Liang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Variation of flower opening and closing times in F1 and F2 hybrids of daylily (Hemerocallis fulva ; Hemerocallidaceae) and nightlily (H. citrina )

(2010) Kozue Nitta et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

An open-flower mutant of Melilotus alba : Potential for floral-dip transformation of a papilionoid legume with a short life cycle?

(2010) Ann M. Hirsch et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Ambient Thermometers in Plants: From Physiological Outputs towards Mechanisms of Thermal Sensing

(2010) C. Robertson McClung et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Network news: prime time for systems biology of the plant circadian clock

(2010) C Robertson McClung et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

How plants sense temperature

(2010) Eric Ruelland et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Differential expression of genes identified by suppression subtractive hybridization in petals of opening carnation flowers

(2010) Taro Harada et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Cloning, characterization, and expression of xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/hydrolase and expansin genes associated with petal growth and development during carnation flower opening

(2010) Taro Harada et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

TCP Transcription Factors Regulate the Activities of ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 and miR164, as Well as the Auxin Response, during Differentiation of Leaves in Arabidopsis

(2010) T. Koyama et al.   PLANT CELL

Plant development goes like clockwork

(2010) Amaury de Montaigu et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

An expanding universe of circadian networks in higher plants

(2010) Jose L. Pruneda-Paz et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Time for circadian rhythms: plants get synchronized

(2009) Paloma Más et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Arabidopsis circadian clock and photoperiodism: time to think about location

(2009) Takato Imaizumi   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Plant hormones are versatile chemical regulators of plant growth

(2009) Aaron Santner et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Pollen resistance to water in 80 angiosperm species: flower structures protect rain-susceptible pollen

(2009) Yun-Yun Mao et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

miR319a targeting ofTCP4is critical for petal growth and development inArabidopsis

(2009) Anwesha Nag et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Expression of ethylene biosynthetic and receptor genes in rose floral tissues during ethylene-enhanced flower opening

(2008) J. Xue et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Regulation of the rose Rh-PIP2;1 promoter by hormones and abiotic stresses in Arabidopsis

(2008) Yunhui Li et al.   PLANT CELL REPORTS

Rh-PIP2;1, a Rose Aquaporin Gene, Is Involved in Ethylene-Regulated Petal Expansion

(2008) N. Ma et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Galactose metabolism in cell walls of opening and senescing petunia petals

(2008) Erin M. O’Donoghue et al.   PLANTA

Isolation of Rh-TIP1;1, an aquaporin gene and its expression in rose flowers in response to ethylene and water deficit

(2008) Jingqi Xue et al.   POSTHARVEST BIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY