Generation of Novel Floral Traits Using a Combination of Floral Organ-Specific Promoters and a Chimeric Repressor in Torenia fournieri Lind.

Floral Organ-Specific Promoters and a Chimeric Repressor in Torenia fournieri Lind. Katsutomo Sasaki*, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, Ichiro Kasajima, Takako Narumi and Norihiro Ohtsubo* Institute of Vegetable and Floriculture Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Fujimoto 2-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8519 Japan Graduate School of Agriculture, Kagawa University, 2393 Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa, 761-0795 Japan Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Shimogamohangi-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8522 Japan *Corresponding authors: Katsutomo Sasaki, E-mail, kattu@affrc.go.jp; Fax, +81-29-838-6841; Norihiro Ohtsubo, E-mail, nohtsubo@kpu.ac.jp; Fax, +81-75-703-5606 (Received February 29, 2016; Accepted April 12, 2016)