'Florigen' enters the molecular age: long-distance signals that cause plants to flower.
The transition from vegetative to reproductive growth is a critical event in the life cycle of plants. Previous physiological studies have deduced that hormone-like substances mediate this important transition but the biochemical nature of the putative signaling molecules has remained elusive. Recent molecular and genetic studies of key flowering-time genes offer new approaches to understanding the mechanisms underlying the initiation of flowering.
Colasanti
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Plant Gene Expression Center and the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 800 Buchanan St, Albany, CA 94710, USA.
Sundaresan
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D010937:Plant Growth Regulators / Q000502:physiology*; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D015398:Signal Transduction
D010937:Plant Growth Regulators