Method to advance the flowering in citrus trees (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

摘要

Procedure to advance flowering on citrus trees. Procedure to advance the flowering in citrus fruits by means of the use of a viral vector based on the genome citrus leaf spot virus (citrus leaf blotch virus, clbv) that expresses the flowering locus t (ft) gene of arabidobsis thaliana (construction clbv/npr-ft). The procedure is based on the agroinoculation of clbv/npr-ft in nicotiana benthamiana plants, purification of virions and mechanical transmission to citrus fruits. Once a citrus plant infected with clbv/npr-ft is available, it is transmitted to other citrus plants by grafting to induce flowering. With this method the flowering is advanced in several years. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)