Is Shennongjia a Suitable Site for Reintroducing Giant Panda: An Appraisal on Food Supply

Li, Z.; Denich, Manfred

doi:10.1007/s10669-005-6050-3

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“…This gregarious flowering not only takes that plantation out of service (Sarma et al, 2010) but also causes ecological and enviromental challenges. For example, a bamboo grove that has recently flowered does not provide food for the giant panda (Li and Denich, 2004). Furthermore, once fruit has set, this new food source can lead to overpopulation of rats, which in the past have over-consumed the seeds, leaving the bamboo forest unrecovered (Nag, 1999).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flowering of Woody Bamboo in Tissue Culture Systems

Yuan

Yue

et al. 2017

Front. Plant Sci.

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Flowering and subsequent seed set are not only normal activities in the life of most plants, but constitute the very reason for their existence. Woody bamboos can take a long time to flower, even over 100 years. This makes it difficult to breed bamboo, since flowering time cannot be predicted and passing through each generation takes too long. Another unique characteristic of woody bamboo is that a bamboo stand will often flower synchronously, both disrupting the supply chain within the bamboo industry and affecting local ecology. Therefore, an understanding of the mechanism that initiates bamboo flowering is important not only for biology research, but also for the bamboo industry. Induction of flowering in vitro is an effective way to both shorten the flowering period and control the flowering time, and has been shown for several species of bamboo. The use of controlled tissue culture systems allows investigation into the mechanism of bamboo flowering and facilitates selective breeding. Here, after a brief introduction of flowering in bamboo, we review the research on in vitro flowering of bamboo, including our current understanding of the effects of plant growth regulators and medium components on flower induction and how in vitro bamboo flowers can be used in research.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flowering of Woody Bamboo in Tissue Culture Systems

Yuan

Yue

et al. 2017

Front. Plant Sci.

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“…We found that some genera, such as Arundinaria, Bambusa, Chimonobambusa, Dendrocalamus, Phyllostachys, Pleioblastus, and Schizostachyum, included sporadic, massive synchronized, and combined massive synchronized and sporadic flowering species (Bean, 1907;Jiao, 1956;Anonymous, 1961;Ram and Gopal, 1981;Zhou, 1984;Zhang and Ma, 1989;Pearson et al, 1994;Du et al, 2000;Li and Denich, 2004;Bhattacharya et al, 2006;Mao et al, 2008;Kitamura and Kawahara, 2009;Nath and Das, 2010;Sarma et al, 2010;Xu et al, 2012Xu et al, , 2014Tagle et al, 2013;Inoue et al, 2014;Xie et al, 2016;Zheng et al, 2016). Some bamboo genera, such as Fargesia, Indosasa, Pseudosasa, and Yushania, included sporadic and massive synchronized flowering species (Zhang and Ma, 1989;Du et al, 2000;Li and Denich, 2004;Jiang, 2007). In some genera, such as Acidosasa, Ampelocalamus, Cephalostachyum, Drepanostachyum, Gaoligongshania, Gigantochloa, Melocalamus, Sasaella, Shibataea, and Sinobambusa, only massive synchronized flowering bamboo species have been observed (Du et al, 2000;Ramanayake and Weerawardene, 2003;Kumawat et al, 2014;Zheng et al, 2016).…”

Section: Indocalamus Tessellatusmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…heteroclada, a bamboo species widely distributed in China, massively bloomed in 1958 in Shennongjia, Hubei Province, China, and partially bloomed in 1987-1989 in Nanjing Forest University, China. In addition, it bloomed massively in Yaan, Sichuan Province, China in 2003-2007, and flowered sporadically in 1995 in Yiliang, Yunnan Province, China (Zhou, 1984;Du et al, 2000;Li and Denich, 2004;Wang and Wu, 2009). Therefore, bamboo flowering type can only be determined according to the specific flowering behavior of a bamboo population.…”

Section: Indocalamus Tessellatusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fargesia denudata 50-60, 63 (Shao, 1986;Yu et al, 1987;Liu and Fu, 2007) F. murielae 35, 80-100, 110 (Tredici, 1998;Li and Denich, 2004) F. nitida 50-60 (Qin, 1995) F. robusta 50-60 (Liu and Fu, 2007) F. scabrida 50-60 (Qin, 1995;Liu and Fu, 2007) F. spathacea 35, 110 (Li and Denich, 2004) Guadua chacoensis 31 (Guerreiro, 2014) G. paraguayana 38 (Guerreiro, 2014) G. sarcocarpa 26-29 (Nelson, 1994;de Carvalho et al, 2013) G. trinii 30-32 (Dutra, 1938;Janzen, 1976;Guerreiro, 2014) G. weberbaueri 27-28 (Guerreiro, 2014) Himalayacalamus falconeri 20-38 (Tingle, 1904;Bean, 1907;Holttum, 1956;Janzen, 1976;Fan and Qiu, 1987) Indocalamus latifolius ∼100 (Anonymous, 1961) I. tessellatus 60, >115 (McClure, 1966;Yuan et al, 2008) Kuruna wightiana 1 (Janzen, 1976;Fan and Qiu, 1987) Melocanna baccifera 7-10, 26-50 (Ueda, 1960;Janzen, 1976;Ram and Gopal, 1981;Fu, 1985;Fan and Qiu, 1987;Lin et al, 2009;Singleton et al, 2010;Govindan et al, 2016) (Dutra, 1938) M. burchellii 30 (Dutra, 1938) M. clausenii 32 (Guerreiro, 2014) M. fistulosa 30-34 (Janzen, 1976;Jaksic and Lim...…”

Section: Speciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…glauca 50-60 or 120 (Zhang, 1977) Ph. heteroclada 50-60, ∼80 (Li and Denich, 2004;Wang and Wu, 2009) Ph. nigra 40-50 (Lin et al, 2010) Ph.…”

Section: Speciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Bamboo Flowering Cycle Sheds Light on Flowering Diversity

et al. 2020

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Bamboo is a perennial flowering plant with a distinctive life cycle: many bamboo species remain in the vegetative phase for decades, followed by mass synchronous flowering and subsequent death. The phenomenon of bamboo flowering is not fully understood, but its periodicity is a major research focus. Here, we collected information on bamboo flowering events by investigating historical documents and field studies at the Bamboo Research Institute of Nanjing Forestry University. We compiled information on more than 630 flowering events, 124 of which accurately recorded the flowering cycle time. We summarized the specific flowering cycles of 85 bamboo species, as well as four kinds of bamboo flowering habits in detail. We present a theory of the bamboo flowering cycle and discuss the reasons for the observed variations in bamboo flowering. This review also introduces two mechanisms by which bamboo forests are rejuvenated after flowering and explains the flowering phenomena of bamboo forests using the bamboo flowering cycle theory. Finally, we present suggestions for forest management strategies. Bamboo flowering is a normal physiological phenomenon, even though it has unique elements compared with flowering in other plants. The results presented here provide valuable reference material for understanding bamboo flowering and its periodicity.

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