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Transformation of rice with the Arabidopsis floral regulator LEAFY causes early heading.
Transgenic research - 1 Jun 2000
He Z, Zhu Q, Dabi T, Li D, Weigel D, Lamb C
Abstract excerpt
Onset of flowering, or heading date, is an important agronomic trait of cereal crops such as rice and early-heading varieties are required for certain regions in which rice is cultivated. Since the floral control gene LEAFY from Arabidopsis can dramatically accelerate flowering in dictoyledonous plants, the usefulness of LEAFY for manipulating heading date in rice has been tested. Constitutive expression of LEAFY...
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