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We investigated the effects of light quality during night interruption (NI) on morphogenesis, flowering, and the transcription of photoreceptor genes in Petunia hybrida Hort. ‘Easy Wave Pink’ (a qualitative long-day plant, LDP). Plants were grown in a closed-type plant factory under a constant light intensity of 180 μmol·m-2·s-1 PPF provided by white (W) light emitting diodes (LEDs) under long day (LD, 16 h light/8 h dark), short day (SD, 10 h light/14 h dark), or SD conditions with a 4 h NI using green (NI-G), blue (NI-B), red (NI-R), far-red (NI-Fr), or white (NI-W) LEDs at an intensity of 10 μmol·m-2·s-1 PPF. Shoot length was greatest under NI-Fr. Flowering was observed under LD, NI-G, NI-Fr, and NI-W. The expression of photoreceptor genes was induced by NI. Specifically, phyA, phyB, and cry1 were more highly expressed under NI-G, NI-B, and NI-R compared to LD and SD. These results suggest that morphogenesis, flowering, and transcriptional factors are strongly affected by light quality during NI.
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Park, Y.G., Muneer, S., Soundararajan, P. et al. Light quality during night interruption affects morphogenesis and flowering in Petunia hybrida, a qualitative long-day plant. Hortic. Environ. Biotechnol. 57, 371–377 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13580-016-0071-3
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