Overexpression of Prunus DAM6 inhibits growth, represses bud break competency of dormant buds and delays bud outgrowth in apple plants.

Most deciduous fruit trees cultivated in the temperate zone require a genotype-dependent amounts of chilling exposure for dormancy release and bud break. In Japanese apricot (Prunus mume), DORMANCY-ASSOCIATED MADS-box 6 (PmDAM6) may influence chilling-mediated dormancy release and bud break. In this...

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Main Authors: Hisayo Yamane, Masato Wada, Chikako Honda, Takakazu Matsuura, Yoko Ikeda, Takashi Hirayama, Yutaro Osako, Mei Gao-Takai, Mikiko Kojima, Hitoshi Sakakibara, Ryutaro Tao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214788