Patent ID: 8670594
Filing Date: 2014-03-11
Classification: A01G

Abstract:
1. A method for determining altered flowering time in plants of a particular species due to presence of a construct, comprising: (i) providing transgenic plants of a particular species transformed with a construct and control plants of the same particular species without being transformed with said construct; (ii) digitally imaging inflorescence of each of said transgenic plants and each of said control plants and measuring the inflorescence of each of said transgenic plants and each of said control plants from the digital image; (iii) providing an average growth rate of inflorescence for said particular species of plant; (iv) comparing the inflorescence of each of said transgenic plants and each of said control plants measured in step (ii) to the average growth rate of inflorescence provided in step (iii) to determine start of flowering time of each of said transgenic plants and each of said control plants; (v) obtaining an average start of flowering time of said transgenic plants and an average start of flowering time of said control plants; and (vi) comparing the average start of flowering time of said transgenic plants to the average start of flowering time of said control plants to determine altered flowering time in said transgenic plants.