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. 2020 Feb 28;3:89. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-0821-8

Fig. 1. Characteristics of Rhyncholaeliocattleya Beauty Girl ‘KOVA’ (KOVA) flowers.

Fig. 1

a KOVA flower with pale pink perianths, a purple-red epichile, and a yellow hypochile in the full-bloom stage. b The epichile is pigmented by anthocyanins, and carotenoids are the main contributor to the yellow colour in the hypochile. c Morphological anatomy of KOVA flowers during floral development. Development stage 1 (D1, bub length < 2 cm), D2 (bub length 2–3 cm), D3 (bub length 3–4 cm), D4 (bub length 4–5 cm), D5 (bub length 5–6 cm), D6 (bub length > 6 cm), D7 (2 days after flowering), and D8 (ten days after flowering). d Sampling strategy: sepals, petals, epichiles, and hypochiles were collected at D1, D4, D7 and D8, respectively, for transcriptome sequencing and metabolome identification. Bar = 1 cm.