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Changes in Flower Coloration and Sepal Anthocyanins of Cyanic Delphinium Cultivars during Flowering

2002; Oxford University Press; Volume: 66; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1271/bbb.66.1652

1347-6947

Fumio Hashimoto, Mika Tanaka, Hiroko Maeda, Shoko Fukuda, Keiichi Shimizu, Yusuke Sakata,

Botanical Research and Applications

The changes in flower color related to sepal pigmentation of cyanic Delphinium cultivars were investigated during anthesis. The sepal hues of the purple and blue flowered varieties observed on the initial day of unfurling had changed with a decrease in hue angle three days after anthesis. In both the purple and blue cultivars, violdelphin (3) was the major component on day one of anthesis, and the chromaticity improved with increasing sepal concentrations of violdelphin (3) and cyanodelphin (4) after three days of unfurling. The flower hue was dominated by the constitution of acylated anthocyanins, and the chromaticity was ordered by the sepal concentration. The biosynthesis of cyanodelphin (4) from violdelphin (3) was postulated since an increase in the sepal concentration of cyanodelphin (4) was accompanied by a decrease in violdelphin (3). Acylation of the anthocyanins was initiated by an increase in the respective possible precursors, tulipanin (2) and violdelphin (3), to subsequently synthesize violdelphin (3) and cyanodelphin (4) during flowering.