Flowering in protea : a molecular and physiological study.

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dc.contributor.advisorRoden, Lauraen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorCramer, Michael Den_ZA
dc.contributor.authorSmart, Marietteen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-04T14:29:55Z
dc.date.available2015-01-04T14:29:55Z
dc.date.issued2012en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractProteas have been extensively cultivated and are grown as floricultural crop plants in many parts of the world, including South Africa. However, the factors that influence the initiation of flowering in Protea have not been identified. From data gathered by the Protea Atlas Project it is evident that Protea spp. have greatly varying flowering times. Furthermore, flowering times between Protea spp. and their hybrid cultivars are also very different. Towards a better understanding of the factors involved in floral initiation in this cultivated crop, three aspects of flowering were investigated in this study. The carbon input into Protea inflorescence development was determined by measuring respiration rates and weights of developing structures. By manipulating source-sink ratios in plants, the carbon assimilatory capacities to support inflorescences were investigated in three cultivars and one wild-grown species of Protea which develop different sized flowers. As some Proteas flower in response to seasonal change, an orthologue of the floral inducer FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT), ProteaFT (ProFT), was isolated from ‘Carnival’ (P. compacta x P. neriifolia) and its expression pattern followed diurnally and seasonally. Finally, the functions of paralogous genes of Protea LEAFY (ProLFY) from ‘Carnival’ displaying sequence similarity to the meristem identity gene LEAFY from Arabidopsis thaliana, were investigated through heterologous expression studies in A. thaliana.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationSmart, M. (2012). <i>Flowering in protea : a molecular and physiological study</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11262en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSmart, Mariette. <i>"Flowering in protea : a molecular and physiological study."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11262en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSmart, M. 2012. Flowering in protea : a molecular and physiological study. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Smart, Mariette AB - Proteas have been extensively cultivated and are grown as floricultural crop plants in many parts of the world, including South Africa. However, the factors that influence the initiation of flowering in Protea have not been identified. From data gathered by the Protea Atlas Project it is evident that Protea spp. have greatly varying flowering times. Furthermore, flowering times between Protea spp. and their hybrid cultivars are also very different. Towards a better understanding of the factors involved in floral initiation in this cultivated crop, three aspects of flowering were investigated in this study. The carbon input into Protea inflorescence development was determined by measuring respiration rates and weights of developing structures. By manipulating source-sink ratios in plants, the carbon assimilatory capacities to support inflorescences were investigated in three cultivars and one wild-grown species of Protea which develop different sized flowers. As some Proteas flower in response to seasonal change, an orthologue of the floral inducer FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT), ProteaFT (ProFT), was isolated from ‘Carnival’ (P. compacta x P. neriifolia) and its expression pattern followed diurnally and seasonally. Finally, the functions of paralogous genes of Protea LEAFY (ProLFY) from ‘Carnival’ displaying sequence similarity to the meristem identity gene LEAFY from Arabidopsis thaliana, were investigated through heterologous expression studies in A. thaliana. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - Flowering in protea : a molecular and physiological study TI - Flowering in protea : a molecular and physiological study UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11262 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/11262
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSmart M. Flowering in protea : a molecular and physiological study. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, 2012 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11262en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherCell Biologyen_ZA
dc.titleFlowering in protea : a molecular and physiological study.en_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
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