Cytokinin, auxin and abscisic acid dynamics during flower development in white and red currants infected with Blackcurrant reversion virus

Gaudinova A, Malbeck J, Dobrev P, Kubelkova D, Spak J, Vankova R
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 73:: 119-125, 2009

Keywords: full blossom disease; cytokinin; auxin; abscisic acid; Ribes; comovirus
Abstract: Blackcurrant reversion virus (BRV) infection, characteristic by flower malformation, resulted at the early flower stage in elevated levels of bioactive cytokinins and their biosynthetic precursors in flowers of white currant ´Blanka´ and red currant ´Vitan´. In healthy flowers, flower-to-berry transition was accompanied by an increase in bioactive cytokinins that was not observed in infected flowers, which were incapable of further development. Auxin levels increased during flower development, in ´Vitan´ only in flowers with normal morphology (both healthy and infected). BRV infection did not have a significant effect on cytokinin or auxin levels in the leaves of either cultivar, it coincided with a mild elevation in the content of abscisic acid in the flowers of both cultivars.
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IEB authors: Radomíra Vaňková