Abstract
Solanum tuberosum ssp. andigena plants require a short-day (SD) photoperiod for tuber formation, a process that is also affected by gibberellins (GAs). Grafting experiments have confirmed that the photoperiod is perceived in the leaves. Tuber formation, however, usually takes place in the underground stolons. In this review, photoperiod-dependent tuberization has been divided into five chronological events: SD photoperiod perception, short-term adaptive responses to SD conditions, generation and transport of tuber-inducing signal(s), tuber formation, and long-term adaptive responses to tuber growth. Within this frame of study, the interaction of GAs and photoperiod is revised. Similar to the flowering process in Arabidopsis, we suggest the existence of two independent pathways that control tuber formation: a photoperiod-dependent pathway and a GA-dependent pathway. Nevertheless, photoperiod-dependent tuber formation requires the action of GAs at specific stages to orchestrate this complex process of development.
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