This invention relates to methods for modifying flowering time and timing of fruit production in a Rubus plant. In addition, the invention relates to plants produced by the methods described herein.

A Pentas plant having a monogenic, incompletely dominant doubled-flower gene, a method for breeding the same, and a method for providing a Pentas variety with a doubled-flower or semi-double flower phenotype are provided for the purpose of creating a doubled-flower or semi-double flower Pentas plant with voluminous florets and a high ornamental value.

Cloning and use of an Arachis hypogaea L. flowering habit gene AhFH1 and allelic variants thereof are provided. Through experiments, the Arachis hypogaea L. flowering habit gene AhFH1 and two defunctionalized allelic variants thereof are determined. The defunctionalized allelic variants can cause the change from alternate flowering Arachis hypogaea L. to continuous flowering Arachis hypogaea L. Through overexpression of the gene AhFH1 or supplementary expression of a promoter of the gene itself, a continuous flowering Arachis hypogaea L. variety can be changed into alternate flowering Arachis hypogaea L.; and through knockout or expression suppression of the gene AhFH1, alternate flowering Arachis hypogaea L. can be changed into continuous flowering Arachis hypogaea L. Marker-assisted selection (MAS) breeding is realized for allelic variants of the gene using molecular markers.

This disclosure pertains to markers and methods useful in identifying Cannabis plants that have a day length neutral phenotype, and methods of breeding plants having a day length neutral phenotype.

The invention provides Scaevola plants that produce at least one flower with a floral phenotype characterised by at least one of: a fused, or partially fused, dorsal slit, a radially, or near radially symmetrical, arrangement of petals, and delayed senescence. The phenotype is a result of reduced or eliminated expression or activity of a CYCLOIDEA2 (CYC2) gene or protein, and or presence of a novel allele designated the FUSED allele. The invention further provides plant cells, plant parts, propagules, seeds and tissue cultures of such plants. The invention further provides methods for the productions and selection of such plants, plant cells, plant parts, propagules, seeds and tissue cultures.

The present invention provides a stevia plant having a low ability to form flower buds as compared with the wild type stevia species. The present invention also provides a method of producing such a stevia plant having a low ability to form flower buds, and an extract or a steviol glycoside purified product obtainable from such a plant.

Hybrid cereals are described which are obtained by restoring the pollen fertility for the Pampa cytoplasmic male sterility (P-CMS) and which are characterized by a reduced linkage drag. Plants are provided, in particular rye, which, as the male pollen parent, are capable of restoring the pollen fertility for the P-CMS. Furthermore, the nucleic acid molecule which carries the necessary information for restoring the P-CMS, DNA and vectors which contain such a nucleic acid molecule, corresponding host cells as well as a protein which can be encoded by the nucleic acid molecule and antibodies directed against it are also described. Furthermore, methods for the production of corresponding hybrid plants and transgenic plants are provided.

The present invention provides a stevia plant having a low ability to form pollens as compared with the wild type stevia species. The present invention also provides a method of producing such a stevia plant having a low ability to form pollens, and an extract or a steviol glycoside purified product obtainable from such a plant.

The disclosure relates to Calibrachoa plants comprising a double-flowering characteristic and a dwarf growth characteristic, methods for generating said plants, and molecular markers corresponding to the double-flowering and dwarf growth traits.

The disclosure relates to Calibrachoa plants comprising a double-flowering characteristic and a dwarf growth characteristic, methods for generating said plants, and molecular markers corresponding to the double-flowering and dwarf growth traits.