title: 'Florigen' enters the molecular age: long-distance signals that cause plants to flower.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Plant Gene Expression Center and the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 800 Buchanan St, Albany, CA 94710, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Colasanti
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sundaresan
mesh_terms: D010937:Plant Growth Regulators / Q000502:physiology*; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D010937:Plant Growth Regulators