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Phytochrome control of flowering is temperature sensitive and correlates with expression of the floral integrator FT.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Mar 2003
Halliday Karen J, Salter Michael G, Thingnaes Elin, Whitelam Garry C
Abstract excerpt
In Arabidopsis flowering is accelerated by reduced red:far-red (R:FR) ratio which signals the presence of neighbouring vegetation. Hastened flowering is one component of the shade-avoidance syndrome of responses, which alter many aspects of development in response to the threat of potential competition. Of the red/far-red-absorbing photoreceptors it is phyB that plays the most prominent role in shade-avoidance,...
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