Flowering Newsletter 2008
Preface
This year's FNL begins with ‘My favourite flowering image’, a feature I hope will be a regular in FNL. Peter Endress's article draws attention to the dynamic side of flowers, something of which we are all conscious but which is relatively little studied. There follows a review of Arabidopsis shoot meristem growth in relation to flower formation (Kwiatkowska), and an interesting perspective on FLC-free vernalization (Alexandre and Hennig). Cronk and Ojeda provide a nice overview of bird-pollinated flowers, emphasizing evolutionary and molecular questions. Two articles on flowering in grapevine (by Lebon et al. and Carmona et al.) are placed together to show the importance of carbohydrate dynamics and molecular approaches in unravelling the controls behind flower formation (and subsequent fruit development) in this fascinating perennial plant. The FNL Bibliography of 2007 papers completes the set.
Nick Battey
May 2008
- My favourite flowering image
Peter K. Endress - Flowering and apical meristem growth dynamics
Dorota Kwiatkowska - FLC or not FLC: the other side of vernalization
Cristina Madeira Alexandre and Lars Hennig - Bird-pollinated flowers in an evolutionary and molecular context
Quentin Cronk and Isidro Ojeda - Sugars and flowering in the grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.)
G. Lebon, G. Wojnarowiez, B. Holzapfel, F. Fontaine, N. Vaillant-Gaveau and C. Clément - A molecular genetic perspective of reproductive development in grapevine
María José Carmona, Jamila Chaïb, José Miguel Martínez-Zapater and Mark R. Thomas - Flowering Newsletter bibliography for 2007
Compiled by, F. Tooke, T. Chiurugwi and N. Battey
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