Plant evolution: measuring the length of the day.
How has the ability of plants to measure the length of the day evolved? The finding that the genome of the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii contains a gene homologous to, and functionally conserved with, the Arabidopsis gene CONSTANS might provide part of the answer.
Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-90183, Umeå, Sweden. Ove.Nilsson@genfys.slu.se
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D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins