Long day plants transformed with phytochrome characterized by altered flowering response to day length

摘要

A long day plant cultivated for commercial production of flowering-shoots, flowering pots, flowers, seeds or fruits is provided. The long day plant overexpresses a phytochrome protein such that the flowering-shoots, flowering pots, flowers, seeds or fruits thereof develop under substantially shorter natural days and lower sun irradiance than those required for development of the flowering-shoots, flowering pots, flowers, seeds or fruits in a similar long day plant not over expressing the phytochrome protein.