An asexual flower of Silene latifolia and Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae promoting its sexual-organ development

Abstract

Abstract Silene latifolia is a dioecious flowering plant with sex chromosomes in the family Caryophyllaceae. Development of a gynoecium and stamens are suppressed in the male and female flowers of S. latifolia , respectively. Microbtryum lychnidis-dioicae promotes stamen development when it infects the female flower. If suppression of the stamen and gynoecium development is regulated by the same mechanism, suppression of gynoecium and stamen development is released simultaneously with the infection by M. lychnidis-dioicae . To assess this hypothesis, an asexual mutant, without gynoecium or stamen, was infected with M. lychnidis-dioicae . A filament of the stamen in the infected asexual mutant was elongated at stages 11 and 12 of the flower bud development as well as the male, but the gynoecium did not form. Instead of the gynoecium, a filamentous structure was suppressed as in the male flower. Developmental suppression of the stamen was released by M. lychnidis-dioicae , but that of gynoecium development was not released. It is thought, therefore, that the suppression of gynoecium development was not released by the infection of M. lychnidis-dioicae. M. lychnidis-dioicae would have a function similar to SPF since the elongation of the stamen that is not observed in the healthy asexual mutant was observed after stage 8 of flower bud development. Such an infection experiment also that the Y chromosome of the asexual mutant has genes related to the differentiation of archesporial cells, but none related to maturation of the tapetal cells.

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