著者

Takamitsu Waki Masaharu Kodama Midori Akutsu Kiyoshi Namai Masayuki Iigo Takeshi Kurokura Toshiya Yamamoto Kenji Nashima Masayoshi Nakayama Masafumi Yagi

出版者

The Japanese Society for Horticultural Science

雑誌

The Horticulture Journal (ISSN:21890102)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.OKD-096, (Released:2017-09-29)

被引用文献数

1 13

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Double flower and hortensia (mophead) hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla (Thunb.) Ser.) traits are recessively inherited. Cross breeding of these traits in hydrangea is difficult because it takes about two years from crossing to flowering. In this study, we aimed to obtain DNA linkage markers that would allow accelerated selection of these traits. We used next-generation sequencing to comprehensively collect DNA sequences from the ‘Kirakiraboshi’ with a double flower and lacecap inflorescence and the ‘Frau Yoshimi’ with a single flower and hortensia inflorescence, and designed simple sequence repeat (SSR) primer pairs for map construction. We screened 768 SSR primer pairs in 93 F2 progeny derived from ‘Kirakiraboshi’ and ‘Frau Yoshimi’. We identified 147 loci, which were expanded to 18 linkage groups with a total map length of 980 cM. Linkage analysis identified that both the double flower trait from ‘Kirakiraboshi’ (dKira) and the hortensia trait from ‘Frau Yoshimi’ (hFrau) were located on linkage group KF_4. Detailed linkage analysis using 351 F2 progeny revealed a 34.8 cM map length between the two loci and identified two tightly linked SSR markers, STAB045 for dKira and HS071 for hFrau. Genetic analysis suggested that double flower and hortensia traits are each controlled by a single recessive gene. Together, the linkage map, SSR markers, and genetic information obtained in this study will be useful for future hydrangea breeding.

著者

Yoshimi Yagishita Masayoshi Nakayama

出版者

The Japanese Society for Horticultural Science

雑誌

The Horticulture Journal (ISSN:21890102)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.QH-083, (Released:2023-08-11)

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There are light-yellow flower cultivars of sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus L.), but no deep-yellow ones. Observation of sweet pea flowers under ultraviolet and blue light suggested that carotenoids are responsible for the light-yellow coloration. We carried out both spectroscopic and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analyses of floral extracts of a light-yellow cultivar, ‘Artemis’, and revealed that the responsible pigments are not flavonoids, but carotenoids, among which acylated lutein is a major component. Because lutein is the pigment responsible for the deep-yellow color of flowers in other plants, we expect to be able to generate deep-yellow flower cultivars of sweet pea. The R and C loci are complementary genes regulating biosynthesis of anthocyanin pigments responsible for the cyanic coloration in sweet pea flowers. In progenies obtained by crossing ‘Artemis’ and a white cultivar, ‘Diana White’, whose genotype is RRcc, the F1 plants had a red flower phenotype only, and the F2 plants had four coloration phenotypes that were white, yellow, red and a combination of yellow and red. Furthermore, the F1 plants, obtained by crossing ‘Artemis’ and another yellow cultivar, ‘Stella’, had a combination of yellow and red flower phenotype only. These data indicate that the genotype of ‘Artemis’ is rrCC and the yellow coloration trait is regulated by a single recessive gene, y, and furthermore, that the y gene is not in linkage with the R or C allele. The theoretical segregation ratio of the F2 plants’ phenotypes obtained by crossing ‘Artemis’ as one parent in the case that Y, R and C loci are independent of each other are presented. We also found some cyanic color cultivars containing higher amounts of carotenoids than ‘Artemis’.

著者

Masaharu Kodama Yuta Tanabe Masayoshi Nakayama

出版者

一般社団法人 園芸学会

雑誌

The Horticulture Journal (ISSN:21890102)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.MI-131, (Released:2016-04-05)

被引用文献数

13

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In many Hydrangea cultivars, sepal color depends on soil conditions. The traditional concept is that different levels of absorption of aluminum ions from soil and its accumulation in sepal vacuoles changes Hydrangea sepal color. To investigate how sepal coloration can be stabilized, we examined the components that may contribute to color variability according to the traditional concept. Using 10 cultivars and lines with sepals of stable red or stable blue color plants or with sepals of variable color (red or purple) plants grown in acid soils and alkaline soils, we analyzed sepal pH and sepal contents of anthocyanin, aluminum ion, 5-O-caffeoylquinic acid, and 3-O-caffeoylquinic acid. Sepals of all cultivars became bluer when plants were grown in acid soil than when they were grown in alkaline soil, even if the change in stable color plants was milder than that of variable color plants. The same component changes probably happen in sepals of both stable and variable color plants in response to different soil conditions to cause the coloration change. When the two soil conditions were compared, a statistically significant difference was detected for delphinidin 3-glucoside, which is a major anthocyanin of Hydrangea, in the variable-color line ‘HH2’ and for 3-O-caffeoylquinic acid in the stable red line ‘HH19’, but not for any other compound examined, including aluminum ions. Although there is possibility that localization of aluminum ions in vacuoles of the colored cells changes, it is assumed that changes in contents of aluminum ion chelaters such as phosphoric acid affect the sepal color change in response to different soil conditions, as well as the coloration stability or variability. When cultivars were compared in terms of properties of sepal coloration, although contents of aluminum ions and 5-O-caffeoylquinic acid tended to be higher in stable blue cultivars than in other cultivars, these differences were not statistically significant. In agreement with previous reports, our data indicate that a lower content of 3-O-caffeoylquinic acid is essential for blue Hydrangea sepals.

著者

中山 政義 ナカヤマ マサヨシ Masayoshi Nakayama

雑誌

国際政経

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1, pp.67-75, 1992-07-01

著者

Masayoshi NAKAYAMA

出版者

Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences

雑誌

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly: JARQ (ISSN:00213551)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.48, no.3, pp.271-277, 2014-07-01 (Released:2014-07-31)

参考文献数

31

被引用文献数

3 7

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The coloration pattern of flower tissue affects the commercial potential of floricultural plants and is also a subject of fundamental biological interest. Transposon insertion or excision and post-transcriptional gene-silencing are well-studied mechanisms involved when flower color patterns form. In this paper, I present a research strategy to understand the mechanisms that govern the formation of flower color patterns. First, I discuss the significance of flower color pattern-formation research and then go on to describe a research system in the following six sections: Observation of flower patterns, Comparison of pigment components, Gene expression analysis, Regulation of target gene expression, Genomic structure, and Factors that can change color pattern-formation. In these sections, reference is made to my own studies on the marginal picotee pattern of Petunia flowers. Post-transcriptional gene-silencing of the chalcone synthase gene is responsible for the formation of white tissue in the white marginal picotee pattern in Petunia flowers. The unusual genomic structure of chalcone synthase is probably related to the operation of position-specific post-transcriptional gene-silencing. In the colored marginal picotee pattern of Petunia flowers, the higher expression of flavonol synthase is a responsible for the central white tissue formation. I also provide a research perspective from which to resolve the remaining questions.

著者

Natsu Tanikawa Hiromichi Inoue Masayoshi Nakayama

出版者

一般社団法人 園芸学会

雑誌

The Horticulture Journal (ISSN:21890102)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.MI-114, (Released:2016-02-02)

被引用文献数

5

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Flowers of wild Camellia japonica L. are usually red, but infrequently the flowering trees of this species may have purple flowers. Such purple flowers are a highly desired horticultural property, but the color expression is not fixed. Even if a tree has splendid purple flowers in the spring, they may revert back to the red color of a wild C. japonica flower the next year. We investigated the factors responsible for the purple coloration using red, purplish-red, and purple flowers of the cultivar ‘Sennen-fujimurasaki’. The epidermal cells of purplish-red and purple petals were composed of both red and purple colored cells, whereas those of the red petals were uniformly red. Many of the purple cells contained blue-black granules. Cyanidin 3-glucoside and cyanidin 3-p-coumaroylglucoside, major pigments of red-flowered C. japonica, were the major anthocyanins of ‘Sennen-fujimurasaki’. The anthocyanin contents were not noticeably different among flowers of these different colors. Potential co-pigments such as flavones, flavonols, and cinnamic acid derivatives were negligibly detected. No significant differences were found in the Ca, Mg, Mn, Fe, Cu, and Zn ion contents or in the pH of petal homogenates; however, a significant difference was found in the Al ion content. The Al content of the purplish-red and the purple petals was 4–10 times higher and 14–21 times higher than that of red petals, respectively. A cyanidin 3-glucoside solution prepared at pH 4.8 was pale red with no precipitates. When Al ions were added to the cyanidin 3-glucoside solution, the solution became purple and produced blue-black precipitates similar to the blue-black granules observed in the purple colored cells. Differences in the spectral properties of the petals from those of the prepared solution could be caused by the co-occurrence of red and purple cells and may be influenced by other Al-chelating compounds and/or substantial Al concentrations in the vacuoles. We conclude that the purple flower color of ‘Sennen-fujimurasaki’ is generated by chelation of Al ions by anthocyanins. In other purple-flowered C. japonica exhibiting unstable flower coloration similar to that of ‘Sennen-fujimurasaki’, Al-anthocyanin chelation is also likely associated with the purple flower color.

著者

Natsu TANIKAWA Kumi YOSHIDA Tadao KONDO Takayuki MIZUNO Tsukasa IWASHINA Masayoshi NAKAYAMA

出版者

Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry

雑誌

Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry (ISSN:09168451)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.1109052652, (Released:2011-10-07)

参考文献数

8

被引用文献数

5

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A new tetraglycosyl flavonol, 3-O-[2-O-xylosyl-6-O-(3-O-glucosyl-rhamnosyl) glucosyl] kaempferol was isolated from pale purplish-pink petals of Wabisuke camellia cv. Tarokaja with three known flavonols. It was named urakunoside after the species name of Tarokaja, Camellia uraku. Urakunoside was a major flavonol component in the Tarokaja petals, but was not detected in petals of Tarokaja’s presumed ancestor species.