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Establishment of the vernalization-responsive, winter-annual habit in Arabidopsis requires a putative histone H3 methyl transferase.
The Plant cell - 1 Dec 2005
Kim Sang Yeol, He Yuehui, Jacob Yannick, Noh Yoo-Sun, Michaels Scott, Amasino Richard
Abstract excerpt
Winter-annual accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana are often characterized by a requirement for exposure to the cold of winter to initiate flowering in the spring. The block to flowering prior to cold exposure is due to high levels of the flowering repressor FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC). Exposure to cold promotes flowering through a process known as vernalization that epigenetically represses FLC expression....
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