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Importance of this research

Myoga is a new crop in Australia currently undergoing evaluation trials to determine ideal locations and environments for commercial production. Production in Australia coincides with Japanese forced production, but utilises the favourable climatic conditions, of the southern hemisphere summer for field production. . Initial experience with the crop at high latitudes (43°S) has revealed two apparently distinct types or cultivars with different flowering and vegetative growth characteristics (Clark, 2001). The cultivar currently referred to as Inferior, fails to produce harvestable flower buds and senesces prematurely when grown in Southern Australia and New Zealand. Plants of the Superior cultivar are higher yielding and do not senesce prematurely, however under semi-commercial conditions, flower bud yield fluctuates from season to season. 
Knowledge of the photoperiodic response of myoga may enable industry to extend the season of production in Australia through either manipulation of growing conditions or through selection of appropriate growing regions.  

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