Gene expression profiling of leaves in conjunction with a floral bud differentiation process in cultivated strawberry ‘Akihime’

Characterization of environmental effects on flowering and plant architecture in an everbearing strawberry F1-hybrid by meristem dissection and gene expression analysis

“…To evaluate flower bud initiation, we examined the expression of FaFUL , a meristem identity gene previously identified as a floral promoter [24], as well as FaFT2 and FaFT3 , which were previously used as markers of flower initiation in SF Japanese cultivars [17,25,27]. FaFUL was highly expressed in all treatments (Figure 8B) except SD at 26°C.…”

“…Liang, et al (2022) also showed that Knowledge of flowering genes can be used to rapidly identify the critical point of initiation [17,27,41]. We have therefore studied the relationship between environmental effects on the morphogenetic changes of the meristem and the expression of known flowering-related genes in the cultivated strawberry [24,25].…”

“…Although the physiology of flowering in the cultivated strawberry has been widely studied [2][3][4][5][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15], there have been comparatively few genetic studies on this topic [17,[24][25][26][27][28][29]. The Arabidopsis photoperiodic pathway is conserved in the octoploid strawberry, but because the genetics of the cultivated strawberry are complex, most functional studies on this topic have been conducted in the closely related diploid wild strawberry Fragaria vesca [30][31][32][33][34].…”

“…'Benihoppe' and reported similar genes were activated during floral induction as that in the diploid strawberry [41]. The genetics of flowering in SF cultivars have thus been studied in some detail [17,24,[27][28][29]. However, less is known about the genetics of flowering in EB cultivars.…”

Characterization of Environmental Effects on Flowering and Plant Architecture in an Everbearing Strawberry F1-Hybrid by Meristem Dissection and Gene Expression Analysis

“…Although the physiology of flowering in the cultivated strawberry has been widely studied [2,5,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15], there have been comparatively few genetic studies on this topic [17,[19][20][21][22][23][24]. The Arabidopsis photoperiodic pathway is conserved in the octoploid strawberry, but because the genetics of the cultivated strawberry are complex, most functional studies on this topic have been conducted in the closely related diploid wild strawberry Fragaria vesca [25][26][27][28][29].…”