Abstract
As in many commercially important flowers, especially the monocotyledonous geophytes, senescence of the ephemeral daylily flower (Hemerocallis) does not involve ethylene. By differentially screening a cDNA library constructed from mRNA extracted from daylily petals in the earliest stages of senescence, clones were isolated whose transcription is up-regulated coordinately with the onset of senescence. One of these clones, sen12, was found to be a transcription factor. The deduced amino acid sequence of sen12 contains a MADS-box and an associated K-box similar to transcription factors suggested to control floral morphogenesis in a variety of different species. Northern blot hybridization showed sen12 to be highly upregulated before and during visible flower senescence. The expression of homologous genes during senescence of other flowers will be reported.
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