TEMPRANILLO homologs in apple regulate flowering time in the woodland strawberry Fragaria vesca.

ABSTRACT: The long juvenile period of fruit trees makes their breeding costly and time-consuming. Therefore, flowering time engineering and shortening the juvenile phase have become a breeding priority for the genetic improvement of fruit tree crops. Many economically valuable fruit trees belong to the Rosaceae family including apples and strawberries. TEMPRANILLO (TEM) acts as a key player in flowering time control through inhibiting FT function. Two genes with high sequence similarity with the Arabidopsis TEM genes were isolated from apple (Malus domestica). Due to the complexity of carrying out functional studies in apple, we characterized their function in woodland strawberry as well as their expression in apple. The expression of MdTEM genes in apple tissues from juvenile plants was dramaticall

SUBMITTER: Dejahang A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9898550 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature