“…Therefore, the most important floral induction factors in garlic should be variety, bulb storage duration and temperature, and photoperiod and growth temperature (Pooler and Simon, 1993). Chilling treatment during bulb storage has been researched significantly on Allium and Lilium (Le Nard and De Hertogh, 1993;Bandara et al, 2000;Khokhar et al, 2007;Lee et al, 2007Lee et al, , 2008Mojtahedi et al, 2012Mojtahedi et al, , 2013Lucidos et al, 2014), but chilling treatment on bulbs as a substitute for plant vernalization has rarely been reported. The results of Karaguzel and Baktir (2013) indicate that cold treatments and their durations had significant effects on the flower stem length, flower stem diameter and flowering time of Allium robertianum Kolmann; the best results were obtained from bulbs stored at 10 • C for a 30-day period in a heated glasshouse, while the earliest flowering was observed in bulbs stored at 5 • C for 60 days in the glasshouse.…”