Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2015, 16, 16497-16513; doi:10.3390/ijms160716497 OPEN ACCESS International Journal of Molecular Sciences ISSN 1422-0067 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms Article Morphogenesis, Flowering, and Gene Expression of Dendranthema grandiflorum in Response to Shift in Light Quality of Night Interruption Yoo Gyeong Park 1, Sowbiya Muneer 2 and Byoung Ryong Jeong 1,2,3,* 1 Institute of Agriculture and Life Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-701, Korea; E-Mail:
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[email protected]; Tel.: +82-55-772-1913. Academic Editor: Marcello Iriti Received: 3 June 2015 / Accepted: 14 July 2015 / Published: 21 July 2015 Abstract: The impact of shifts in the spectral quality of light on morphogenesis, flowering, and photoperiodic gene expression during exposure to light quality of night interruption (NI) was investigated in Dendranthema grandiflorum. The circadian rhythms of plants grown in a closed walk-in growth chamber were interrupted at night for a total of 4 h, using light-emitting diodes with an intensity of 10 μmol·m−2·s−1 PPF. The light quality of the NI was shifted from one wavelength to another after the first 2 h. Light treatments consisting of all possible pairings of blue (B), red (R), far-red (Fr), and white (W) light were tested. Plants in the NI treatment groups exposed to Fr light grew larger than plants in other treatment groups.