Abstract
MADS-box and FLOWERING LOCOS T (FT) family genes play important roles in floral regulation and morphogenesis of plants. Tomato is a day-neutral plant and insensitive to photoperiod, suggesting that it may have a different mechanism of floral regulation and morphogenesis from those of a long-day plant, Arabidopsis, and a short-day plant, rice. Tomato is one of model crops and genome projects on it have been performed as international collaborations (http://solgenomics.net/ and http://www.kazusa.or.jp/tomato/). In this study, we will show phenotypes of transgenic plants overexpressing genes related to floral regulation and morphogenesis using Micro-Tom. We will discuss possible roles of these genes in Micro-Tom.
This work was supported by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry of Japan (METI).
