title: Induction of flowering by 5-azacytidine in some plant species: relationship between the stability of photoperiodically induced flowering and flower-inducing effect of DNA demethylation.
abstract: The flower-inducing effect of 5-azacytidine, a DNA demethylating reagent, was examined in several plant species with a stable or unstable photoperiodically induced flowering state under non-inductive photoperiodic conditions. The long day plant Silene armeria, whose flowering state is stable and the short day plant Pharbitis nil, whose flowering state is unstable were induced to flower by 5-azacytidine under a non-inductive condition. Thus, the replacement of photoinduction by 5-azacytidine treatment is not specific to Perilla frutescens. On the other hand, 5-azacytidine did not induce flowering in Xanthium strumarium whose flowering state is stable and Lemna paucicostata whose flowering state is unstable. Thus, epigenetics caused by DNA demethylation may be involved in the regulation of photoperiodic flowering irrespective of the stability of the photoperiodically induced flowering state.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Ikarashi, Niigata 950-2181, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: Kaede C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Wada
authors.forename: Kiyotoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takeno
mesh_terms: D001374:Azacitidine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019175:DNA Methylation; D035264:Flowers / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics* / Q000528:radiation effects; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant / Q000187:drug effects / Q000528:radiation effects; D049915:Ipomoea nil / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000528:radiation effects; D017440:Photoperiod; D029751:Silene / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000528:radiation effects
chemical_list: D001374:Azacitidine