Figure 6

Expression levels of the candidate genes in the SAMs of the early flowering ‘Sanyuehong’ and ‘Kom’, and the late flowering ‘Nuomichi’ and ‘Guiwei’. The SAMs of the early flowering cultivars were collected on September 11 as the PFId stage, October 14 as the FId stage, November 11 as the FIn stage, and December 9 as the panicle developmental (PD) stage in 2015. Those of the late flowering cultivars were collected on September 11 as the PFId stage, November 11 as FId stage 1 (FId1), December 9 in 2015 as FId stage 2 (FId2), February 2 as the FIn stage, and February 21 in 2016 as the panicle developmental (PD) stage. Data are presented as the means of three replicates and the bars represent SE.