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BUD DORMANCY GENES. "Numerous transcriptomic studies have arisen during the last few years, addressing the changes in gene expression triggered by bud dormancy events in...perennial species." https://lnkd.in/duD22Cw View in LinkedIn

MULTIPLE FACTORS. "Bud dormancy is dynamically modulated by intrinsic, environmental, and hormonal factors, which in several aspects, resemble those factors regulating dormancy in seeds." https://lnkd.in/duD22Cw View in LinkedIn

ENVIRONMENTAL TRIGGERS. "The cessation of meristem growth and bud set are controlled by photoperiod, temperature, or a combination of both in different species; followed by the induction of bud dormancy, which precludes the growth resumption even under favorable environmental conditions." https://lnkd.in/duD22Cw View in LinkedIn

PROTECTED MERISTEMS. "The vegetative and reproductive meristems of many perennial plants in temperate climates remain in a non-growing latent state during the cold period of autumn and winter, within buds, which ensure an optimal protection against low temperatures and drought." https://lnkd.in/duD22Cw View in LinkedIn

STAGED BUD RELEASE. "All of a tree’s buds are not released from dormancy at the same time and the requirements and timing of dormancy transitions might change as a tree ages." https://lnkd.in/duazcMZ View in LinkedIn

GROWTH-DORMANCY CYCLE. "A key feature of the perennial life style in plants is the ability to cease meristem activity and to establish a dormant state in which the meristem is rendered insensitive to growth-promoting signals for some time before it is released and can resume growth. The seasonal cycling between growth and dormancy has received little attention despite its importance for perennial behaviour." https://lnkd.in/dgbUNyw View in LinkedIn

SPONTANEOUS MUTANTS. "But mutants can arise out of the blue too. Even if a population consists entirely of the same strain (which you can set up through cloning), resistant or sensitive mutants develop spontaneously in a very short span of time. Prions, it seems, are very quick to adapt." https://lnkd.in/dVZWBhV View in LinkedIn

PIECES OF THE CLOCK. "The seasonality of bud dormancy with undefined repeated cycles of growth–dormancy along the life of an individual, the major role of hormones such as ABA, and the occurrence of dormancy-related processes on preformed flowers located within buds instead of vegetative tissues, among other particularities, suggest the existence of yet unknown exciting pieces in the “clock.”." https://lnkd.in/duD22Cw View in LinkedIn

ADAPTED STRAINS. "Li found that prions taken from brain tissue are different to those grown in cells cultured in a laboratory. The brain-adapted prions are capable of infected nerve tissue and they’re resistant to a drug called swainsonine (swa) that completely blocks the growth of other strains. The cell-adapted prions lack both these abilities but they’re better at growing in cell cultures." https://lnkd.in/dVZWBhV View in LinkedIn

EXPANSIVE FRONTIER. "The rich literature describing vernalization in model plants may radically accelerate the knowledge of the epigenetics of bud dormancy regulation over the next few years, but it will require the implementation of more informative biochemical and functional approaches in perennial species to complement previous genetic and genomic studies." https://lnkd.in/duD22Cw View in LinkedIn