Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by SEDGLEY, M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by SEDGLEY, M.
Agricola
Right arrow Articles by SEDGLEY, M.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Annals of Botany 39: 1091-1095, 1975
© 1975 Annals of Botany Company

RESEARCH-ARTICLE

Flavanoids in Pollen and Stigma of Brassica oleracea and Their Effects on Pollen Germination In Vitro

M. SEDGLEY1

Scottish Horticultural Research Institute Invergowrie, Dundee, Scotland

Received: 25 September 1974   

Brassica oleracea pollen was applied to a basic medium of 1.5 per cent agar and 15 per cent sucrose to which flavanoids were added at three concentrations. Two types of agar were used; with agar 1, quercetin at a concentration of 0.5 x 10–3 per cent gave an increase in percentage germinating grains. With agar 2, an increase in germination occurred with kaempferol and naringin at concentrations of 0.5 x 10–3 and 0.5 x 10–1 per cent respectively. Increase in pollen tube length occurred with agar 2 and quercetin at a concentration of 0.5 x 10–3 per cent.

The stigma tissue of B. oleracea contains at least three and the pollen at least one glycoside of quercetin. The sugars in the glycosides were not identified. Pollen germination and pollen tube extension were not stimulated exclusively by the flavanoids present in the stigma. The flavanoid composition of the stigma did not vary amongst five different S-allele genotypes, indicating that flavanoids are probably not directly involved in the incompatibility reaction of B. oleracea.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Am. J. Bot.Home page
J. L. Poulton, R. T. Koide, and A. G. Stephenson
Effects of mycorrhizal infection and soil phosphorus availability on in vitro and in vivo pollen performance in Lycopersicon esculentum (Solanaceae)
Am. J. Botany, October 1, 2001; 88(10): 1786 - 1793.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.