2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Analysis on the response of petunia and tomato's flowering and main stem elongation under blue and red light conditions.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19580023
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Horticulture/Landscape architecture
Research Institution	University of Tsukuba
Principal Investigator	FUKUDA Naoya University of Tsukuba, 大学院・生命環境科学研究科, 准教授 (80251023)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	ペチュニア / 花成 / 光質 / 花成関連遺伝子 / ジベレリン / サイトカイニン / 主茎伸長 / FT遺伝子
Research Abstract	We evaluated the effects of light quality of blue and red light on growth and development of petunia. The plant shape became longer and flowering was promoted under blue light compared to red light. Under red light condition, GA synthesis was inhibited and it could lead the short main stem. Under red light that delayed floral induction, cytokinin could induce the flowering. In addition, we found out the FT like gene, 'PhFT' from petunia plant. This gene dose not seems to be related to light quality response on floral induction, but we could confirm that this gene could induce the floral bud formation by using the transgenic Arabidopsis. We also investigated the effects of light quality on growth and floral induction in tomato, and showed that tomato's floral induction was promoted by red light condition.