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Quantitative trait locus mapping and DNA array hybridization identify an FLM deletion as a cause for natural flowering-time variation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Feb 2005
Werner Jonathan D, Borevitz Justin O, Warthmann Norman, Trainer Gabriel T, Ecker Joseph R, Chory Joanne, Weigel Detlef
Abstract excerpt
Much of the flowering time variation in wild strains of Arabidopsis thaliana is due to allelic variation at two epistatically acting loci, FRIGIDA (FRI) and FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC). FLC encodes a MADS (MCM1/AGAMOUS/DEFICIENS/SRF1) domain transcription factor that directly represses a series of flowering-promoting genes. FRI and FLC, however, do not explain all of the observed variation, especially when plants are...
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