“…Isogenic lines created on the basis of winter varieties with known alleles of PPD genes play an important role in the detailed analysis of the VRN genes, which control the duration of the growing period (Stelmakh, Avsenin, 1983;Voronin, Stelmakh, 1985;Koval et al, 2001;Efremova et al, 2011). Study of such lines permits one to single out the effect of alleles of each of the VRN genes or different alleles of the same gene, as well as of their combinations, on the duration of the heading period (Merezhko, 1994;Koval, Goncharov, 1998;Stelmakh et al, 2000;Efremova et al, 2011), the duration of the main stages of organogenesis (Voronin, Stelmakh, 1985;Emtseva et al, 2013), and productivity and fitness (Voronin, 1988). In addition, isogenic lines are suitable models for studying the primary structure and expression of VRN alleles (Loukoianov et al, 2005;Shcherban et al, 2013).…”