Encyclopedia : Phylogeny and Genetics

Flower Color Patterns

Copyright 1998-2017 Yoshiaki Yoneda

A portion of flower color patterns was considered to be due to mutable genes in the morning glory. However, recently developed molecular genetic techniques, combined with progress in base arrangement DNA-decoding technology, have begun to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying flower color patterns.


1. Autumn shower (flecked)

2. Dyeing in different colors (flecked)

3. Flaked

4. Speckled

5. Margined

6. Ray white

7. Ray flow

8. Rayed

9. Blizzard

10. Striped (Blizzard)

11. Striated

12. Decolored crest

Flower color patterns in the morning glory, Ipomoea nil (including those derived from Ipomoea purpurea through interspecific hybrids)


References
  1. Imai, Y. (1934) On the mutable genes of Pharbitis, with special reference to their bearing on the mechanism of bud-variation Jour. Coll. Agric., 12: 479.
  2. Kihara, H. (1934) Vererbungsstudien uber eine `flecked'-Sippe bei Pharbitis Nil.1. Botany a. Zoology 2:1801-1814.
  3. Iida, S., Hidatomi, Y. (1992) Variegation mechanism in flowers and seeds and transposons. In: Molecular mechanism of flowering and seed-setting (ed. Harada, H.).
  4. Inagaki, Y., Hisatomi, Y., Suzuki, T., Kasahara, K., Iida, S. (1994) Isolation of a Suppressor-mutator/Enhancer-like transposable element, Tpn1, from Japanese morning glory bearing variegated flowers. Plant Cell 6: 375-383.

References
  1. Abe, Y., Hoshino, A., Iida, S. (1997) Appearance of flower variegation in the mutable speckled line of the Japanese morning glory is controlled by two genetic elements. Genes Genet. Syst. 72: 57-62


Edited by Yuuji Tsukii (Lab. Biology, Science Research Center, Hosei University)