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词条 Basics of white flower colouration
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  1. Cultivation & Modification of Colour

  2. See also

  3. References

{{Orphan|date=March 2019}}White flower colour is related to the absence or reduction of the anthocyanidin content.[1] Unlike other colors, white colour is not induced by pigments. Several white plant tissues are principally equipped with the complete machinery for anthocyanin biosynthesis including the expression of regulatory genes. Nevertheless, they are unable to accumulate red or blue pigments, for example Dahlia ´Seattle´ petals showing a white tip.[2] Several studies have revealed a further reduction of the anthocyanidin to colorless epicatechin by the enzyme anthocyanidin reductase (ANR).[3]

Cultivation & Modification of Colour

Many external factors can influence colour: light, temperature, pH, sugars and metals.[4] There is a method to turn petunia flowers from white to transparent. The petunia flower is immersed into a flask of water, connected to a vacuum pump, after which the flower appeared colourless. The white colour is expressed by the air present in the vacuoles that absorb the light, without air the flower loses the white colour.

There is an increasing interest in flower colour,{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}} since some colorations are currently unavailable in plants. Ornamental companies create new flower colour by classical and mutation breeding and biotechnological approaches. For example, white bracts in Poinsettia are obtained by high frequency irradiation.

See also

  • Basics of blue flower colouration

References

1. ^{{Cite journal|last=Kazuma|first=Kohei|last2=Noda|first2=Naonobu|last3=Suzuki|first3=Masahiko|date=November 2003|title=Flavonoid composition related to petal color in different lines of Clitoria ternatea|url=http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0031942203005041|journal=Phytochemistry|volume=64|issue=6|pages=1133–1139|doi=10.1016/s0031-9422(03)00504-1|issn=0031-9422}}
2. ^{{Cite journal|last=Rosati*|first=Carlo|last2=Cadic|first2=Alain|last3=Duron|first3=Michel|last4=Renou|first4=Jean-Pierre|last5=Simoneau|first5=Philippe|date=1997-10-01|title=Molecular cloning and expression analysis of dihydroflavonol 4-reductase gene in flower organs of Forsythia × intermedia|journal=Plant Molecular Biology|language=en|volume=35|issue=3|pages=303–311|doi=10.1023/A:1005881032409|issn=0167-4412}}
3. ^{{Cite journal|last=Fischer|first=Thilo C.|last2=Mirbeth|first2=Beate|last3=Rentsch|first3=Judith|last4=Sutter|first4=Corina|last5=Ring|first5=Ludwig|last6=Flachowsky|first6=Henryk|last7=Habegger|first7=Ruth|last8=Hoffmann|first8=Thomas|last9=Hanke|first9=Magda-Viola|date=2013-10-01|title=Premature and ectopic anthocyanin formation by silencing of anthocyanidin reductase in strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa)|journal=New Phytologist|language=en|volume=201|issue=2|pages=440–451|doi=10.1111/nph.12528|pmid=24117941|issn=0028-646X}}
4. ^{{Cite book|title=Biotechnology of ornamental plants|date=1997|publisher=CAB International|others=Geneve, R. L., Preece, John E., Merkle, Scott Arthur, 1953-|isbn=978-0851991108|location=Wallingford, Oxon, UK|oclc=36340408}}

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