Deciduous Dendrobium Flower signaling?

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Well Ethylene certainly induces bud and leaf drop in the vast majority of plants, but in many plants it's also the catalyst for flowering as well. In mangoes and cycads, smoking the plants has long been used to induce early or larger flowerings of the plants and research has shown ethylene to be the key ingredient. It's also become very common in bulb production as bulbs beneath critical size can be made to enter flower bud initiation, in japan they burn bulb fields to achieve this.

I want to try and figure out what applications this may have in orchid production and in the popularization of certain orchids which are currently not suitable for the current market e.g. deciduous dendrobiums and other orchids for which leaf drop caused by ethylene would not be problematic or especially damaging to the orchid.