Pistil and stamen of lily flowers bend upward by light.
Pistil and stamen of lily flowers bend upward. Such tropic response at sensing external stimuli increases the success of pollination in these flowers and improve their adaptability. They do not bend under the dark, but toward light irradiated. From these observation, lily flowers is concluded that they equip phototropic mechanism to sense direction of incident light and control differential elongation of pistil and stamen. Action spectrum of light for this tropism was found similar to those for the phototropism shown in coleoptiles of monocotyledonous plants. Image analysis of pistil and stamen indicates that elongation and bending does not proceed uniformly over those organs. In the case of pistil, elongation starts at its basal part and propagates towards its top after opening of perianth. Steep bending occurs at the basal zone of pistil as long as differential incidence of light is given at its part.
Shimizu
Minobu
M
Japan Women's University.
Tomita-Yokotani
Kaori
K
Nakamura
Teruko
T
Yamashita
Masamichi
M
D035264:Flowers / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000528:radiation effects; D018522:Gravitropism; D008027:Light; D019668:Liliaceae / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000528:radiation effects; D018524:Phototropism