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Bulletin of Botanical Research ›› 2011, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (3): 354-357.doi: 10.7525/j.issn.1673-5102.2011.03.018

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Observation on the Process of Flower Bud Differentiation in Medicinal Plant Tussilago farfara L.

CUI Gui-Mei;SUN Hai-Feng;HE Run-Li;SUN Yi*;QIN Xue-Mei;LI Zhen-Yu   

  1. 1.Biotechnology Research Center of Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Taiyuan 030031;2.College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,Shanxi University,Taiyuan 030006;3.College of Chinese Medicine,Shanxi University,Taiyuan 030006;4.Shanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Taiyuan 030024
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2011-05-20 Published:2011-05-20
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Abstract: Bud primordia of Tussilago farfara L. inflorescence at various growth stages were used as experiment materials in this study. By means of paraffin sections, the morphological process of bud differentiation was observed by optical microscope. The results showed that inflorescence differentiation started in the early July and completed in the early October. The whole differentiation process could be divided into ten stages (phases): pre-differentiation, disc formation, inflorescence primordium differentiation, petal primordium differentiation of central flowers (tubiform florets), stamen primordium differentiation of central flowers, pistil primordium differentiation of central flowers, petal primordium differentiation of marginal flowers (ligulate flowers), pistil primordium differentiation of marginal flowers, pollen differentiation of central flowers, ovary and ovule differentiation. The relationship between bud differentiation and the growth period of T.farfara L. was also discussed.

Key words: Tussilago farfara L., inflorescence bud differentiation, morphology

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