目前开花生热效应的研究在国际尚处于起步发展阶段。基于国外该领域的研究成果,综合已有的研究数据,首次归纳并提出开花生热效应的概念,即开花生热效应是一些植物类群在开花繁殖过程中,花部器官以自主生热的方式产生热量,使花部器官的温度明显高于环境温度,并保持在一定的较高温度范围之内,从而促进花部生殖发育顺利完成的现象。并且对该领域的研究进展加以总结归纳,综述了近年来该领域从表型观测逐步转入内部调控机制研究的最新进展。
Compared with the international research,the floral thermogenesis study is still at its initial stage of development.Few studies in this field have been reported in China.Based on overseas researches in this field and unpublished data from our research group,the concept of floral thermogenesis is summarized and put forward for the first time in domestic research field.Floral thermogenesis could be defined as:the flowers in some plant taxa produce amount of heat actively,and maintain remarkably constant temperatures in face of fluctuating ambient temperature.It is an active process of heat production and favorable for plant reproductive development.In this paper,existing researches in this field are summarized and the latest advances from phenomenon observation to the internal control mechanism are reviewed.