Re: Arab-gen Digest, Vol 97, Issue 10- Promote flowering

[Zhou Jiannan]

I think you can try using GA to promote flowering. GA pathway is a major
pathway of floral transition. I usually spray the plants with 100uM GA3
once per week, beginning from the seedling stage.

Hope it may help,
Jiannan
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:04 AM, <arab-gen...@oat.bio.indiana.edu>wrote:

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> From: "Fan, Baofang" <bf...@purdue.edu>
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> We recently ordered a few ecotypes originated from Ukraine that are
> apparently extremely late flowering. The plants have been in a growth
> chamber with 16/8 h photoperiod for more than five months with 2 weeks in a
> cold room at their rosette stage and there is no sign that they are going
> to flower soon. I know there are many people out there working on
> flowering and there must be people who know the best ways to make these
> extremely late-flowering ecotypes flower early and I would greatly
> appreciate it if people can share with me their advices. We want to use
> these ecotypes for genetic crossing and really hate it if we have to spend
> years to get the F2 progeny.
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> Thanks a lot,
> B. Fan
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