Youmei Li

TL;DR: Transcriptomic profiles from differentiating buds allowed us to identify genes potentially involved in signaling pathways that mediate the regulatory mechanisms of flower induction, suggesting that sugar-, hormone- and flowering-related genes, as well as those involved in cell-cycle induction, participated in the apple flower induction process.

TL;DR: 5 year-old 'Fuji' apple trees were used to explore the responses of hormones and gibberellin- and flowering-associated genes, and GA3 spraying disrupts the balance between ZR and GAs, and inhibits floral induction.

TL;DR: A framework for the future analysis of miRNAs associated with multiple hormones and their roles in the regulation of bud growth, and flower induction and formation in response to shoot bending in apple trees is provided.

TL;DR: The combination of sRNA and degradome sequencing can be used to better illustrate the profiling of hormone-regulated miRNAs and miRNA targets involving complex regulatory networks, which will contribute to the understanding of miRNA functions during growth, phase transition and reproductive growth in perennial woody fruit trees.

TL;DR: This study represents the first comprehensive investigation of the A. thaliana and apple GASA gene families and may support the hypotheses regarding the role of G ASA proteins during the flower induction stage in fruit tree species.