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Bulletin of Botanical Research ›› 2022, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (4): 657-666.doi: 10.7525/j.issn.1673-5102.2022.04.015

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Physiological Characteristics of Early Spring Flowering Plants under Northeast Forest

Liben PAN1, Xue YAN2, Jia LIU2, Kexin WU1, Yang LIU2, Shaochong LIU3()   

  1. 1.School of Forestry,Northeast Forestry University,Harbin 150040
    2.Key Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology,Ministry of Education,Northeast Forestry University,Harbin 150040
    3.China Forest Museum,Harbin 150040
  • Received:2021-11-17 Online:2022-07-20 Published:2022-07-15
  • Contact: Shaochong LIU E-mail:lscnefu@126.com
  • About author:PAN Liben(1997—),female,Ph.D candidate,mainly engaged in the study of physiological and biochemical of understory plants.
  • Supported by:
    Value Evaluation of Important Wild Economic Plant Resources in Natural Forests in Forbidden Logging Zone in Northeast Forest Region(2019FY100505)

Abstract:

In order to explore the flowering strategies of early spring flowering plants at low temperatures, five early spring flowering plants and five non-early spring flowering plants were collected,and the endogenous hormones and secondary metabolites between early spring flowering plants and non-early spring flowering plants were analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and metabolomics. The results showed that the content of auxin(IAA) and zeatin(ZT) in early spring flowering plants were significantly lower than that in non-early spring flowering plants, while gibberellin(GA3) and abscisic acid(ABA) were significantly higher than that in non-early spring flowering plants, indicated that GA3 and ABA might play a regulatory role in promoting the flowering process of early spring plants. In the secondary metabolites, L-phenylalanine, the precursor of phenolic metabolites, was usually higher in non-early spring flowering plants than in early spring flowering plants. In addition, there were C6C1 phenolic compounds, including vanillic acid, syringic acid and protocatechuic acid; C6C3 phenolic compounds, including ferulic acid, chlorogenic acid and caffeic acid; Flavonoids, including apigenin, genistein, hesperidin, chrysin and galangin, were generally higher in non-early spring flowering plants than in early spring flowering plants. The changes of these secondary metabolites might be due to a large amount of material loss caused by the flowering process of flowering plants in early spring, which reduced the level of secondary metabolism. The results showed that endogenous plant hormones and secondary metabolites regulated the physiological process of flowering plants in early spring, and laid a foundation for further understanding the flowering process of plants under low temperatures.

Key words: early spring flowering plants, endogenous hormones, metabolomics, phenolic metabolites

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