Isolation and Expression Profiling of a CONSTANS-Like Gene and Two FLOWERING LOCUS T-Like Genes from Spinacia oleracea L.
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52909#.VKyXz8nQrzE Author(s) Erika Abe 1 , Kaien Fujino 2 , Kiyoshi Masuda 2 , Yube Yamaguchi 2,3* Affiliation(s) 1 Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan . 2 Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan . 3 Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Japan . ABSTRACT Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) develops leaf rosettes under short-day conditions, and starts reproductive growth including bolting and flowering under long-day conditions. Japanese people prefer Oriental spinach that bolts easily with a shorter photoperiod than European spinach. This is one of the main reasons that Oriental spinach is difficult to grow year-round. In order to understand spinach flowering mechanisms and obtain knowledge for spinach breeding, we isolated one CONSTANS-li...