Identification and screening of plant hormone-related genes associated with dormancy release in Prunus persica seeds using transcriptomics and targeted metabolomics
Fan Zhang, Chenbing Wang, Jiaxuan Ren · 2025
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Fan Zhang, Chenbing Wang, and Jiaxuan Ren study how peach seeds wake from dormancy in a 2025 paper. Peach seeds sleep deeply, so they sprout slowly and unevenly, which limits nursery work. The team set up four groups with water, plant hormone plus other chemicals, and bleach based or fluoride based mixes, all with heat control. They tracked body measures, gene activity, and plant hormone levels over time.
Treatments raised sprouting and shifted levels of several growth hormones. Day forty five stood out as a key control point in the balance between a sleep hormone and a growth hormone. Thousands of genes changed, clustered in hormone signaling and sugar use pathways. Eight key compounds also shifted. Readers get a gene level map for shortening peach seed sleep.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Fan Zhang, Chenbing Wang, Jiaxuan Ren |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |