Mot, Y., Reid, M.S. and Kofranek, A.M., 1980. Role of the ovary in carnation senescence. Scientia Hortic., 13: 377--383. Ovary growth in carnation flowers was inhibited by pre-treatments with silver thiosulfate which retarded petal senescence. Although the start of ovary growth preceded visible wilting of untreated flowers, the ovary does not appear to control carnation senescence. Its removal ...

The Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA GMO Panel) has evaluated the overall safety of genetically modified (GM) carnation SHD-27531-4 cut flowers to be imported into the European Union (EU) for ornamental use. The genetic modification results in the flowers having purple petals. The stability of the new colour trait was observed over m...

Stem and leaf tissues of carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus) plants appear to contain a natural antisenescence factor since removal of most of these tissues from cut carnation flowers hastened their senescence. However, kinetin (5-10 mug/ml) significantly delayed senescence of flowers with stem and leaf tissues removed. In addition, the life span of cut flowers with intact (30-cm) stems was incre...

Most important breeding goals in ornamental crops are plant appearance and flower characteristics where selection is visually performed on direct offspring of crossings. We developed an image analysis toolbox for the acquisition of flower and petal images from cultivated carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) that was validated by a detailed analysis of flower and petal size and shape in 78 comme...

coat protein gene confers cross-protection in transgenic tobacco and tomato plants. EMBO J. 6:1181-1188. Vaek, M., A.S. Reynaerts, H. Hofte, S. Jansens, M. de Beucketer, C. Dean, M. ZaBeau, M. van Montagu, and J. Leemans. 1987. Transgenic plants protected from insect attack: Nature (London) 328:33-37. van der Krol, A.R., P.E. Lenting, J. Veenstra, I.M. van der Meer. R.E. Koes, A.G.M. Gerats, J....

Flower opening is an event accompanied by morphological changes in petals which include elongation, expansion, and outward-curving. Petal cell growth is a fundamental process that underlies such phenomena, but its molecular mechanism remains largely unknown. Suppression subtractive hybridization was performed between petals during the early elongation period (stage 1) and during the opening per...

carnation (dianthus caryophyllus) can be infected by several viruses that some are specific to carnation flowers. vegetative propagation of carnation, can easily disperse viruses by infectied cuttings. during the year 2007, viral-like symptoms were observed on carnation in mahallat greenhouses. 142 suspected samples from glass houses, with symptoms of reddish- purple flecks and spots on leaves,...

Abstract This study was carried out in the laboratory of Shangqiu Institute Technology, Henan to investigate effect a different combination inorganic salt on quality and physiological characteristics cut flowers (CFs) Perpetual Carnation. Furthermore, find best preservation solution that can enhance ornamental value CFs Carnation prolong its vase life. Sucrose, 8-hydroxyquinoline, paclobutrazol...

The complete nucleotide sequence of carnation mottle genomic RNA (4003 nucleotides) is presented. The sequence was determined for cloned cDNA copies of viral RNA containing over 99% of the sequence and was completed by direct sequence analysis of RNA and cDNA transcripts. The sequence contains two long open reading frames which together can account for observed translation products. One transla...