Question

A mutant version of mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) has been engineered to convert it from a long-day plant to a short-day plant. What is responsible for triggering the development of flowers in this plant

Answer 1

Long And Short-Day Plants

Explanation:

Long-day Plants-

• A plant that flowers simply subsequent to being presented to light periods longer than a specific basic length, as in summer.
• Spinach, lettuce, and a few assortments of wheat are difficult day plants. Look at day-unbiased plant short-day plant at phototropism.  
• Long  plants include such as  aster, cone flower,radish ,potato,hibiscus, cone flower, lettuce, spinach and  sugar beet.

Short-day plants-

• A plant that requires a significant stretch of obscurity, is named a "brief day" (difficult night) plant..
• Short-day plants structure blossoms just when day length is not exactly around 12 hours.
• The fall flowering  plants and many spring are whole  day plants, such as  poinsettias and Christmas Christmas cactus and chrysanthemums.