Background: Lilium (Lilium longiflorum Thunb.) belongs to the family Liliaceae and is a native of Northern Hemisphere (up South Canada Siberia). Conventionally, lilium can easily be propagated by sexual asexual methods propagation but these prevalent are not capable meeting increasing demand in domestic global market. Generally, through bulbs which has bottlenecks like high cost planting materi...

Monocots are one of the most diverse, successful and economically important clades of angiosperms. We attempt to analyse the complete plastid genome sequences of two lilies and their lengths were 152,793bp in Lilium longiflorum (Liliaceae) and 155,510bp in Alstroemeria aurea (Alstroemeriaceae). Phylogenetic analyses were performed for 28 taxa including major lineages of monocots using the seque...

The accumulation of phytic acid during development of lily (Lilium longiflorum Thunb.) pollen and its degradation during germination have been studied. A substantial amount of phytic acid accumulates in lily pollen by 5 days before anthesis, and little change occurs during subsequent maturation. Mature lily pollen contains 7 to 8 micrograms phytic acid per milligram pollen. Considerable degrada...

Transmission electron microscopy of pollen from Lilium longiflorum Thunb. reveals electron-dense inclusions in storage body organelles ubiquitous in the cytosol. In ungerminated pollen, these inclusions are rounded in appearance and appressed to the inner surface of the smooth membrane of the storage body. During pollen germination, these inclusions become less rounded, smaller, and enclosed in...