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The tomato FT ortholog triggers systemic signals that regulate growth and flowering and substitute for diverse environmental stimuli.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Apr 2006
Lifschitz Eliezer, Eviatar Tamar, Rozman Alexander, Shalit Akiva, Goldshmidt Alexander, Amsellem Ziva, Alvarez John Paul, Eshed Yuval
Abstract excerpt
The systemic model for floral induction, dubbed florigen, was conceived in photoperiod-sensitive plants but implies, in its ultimate form, a graft-transmissible signal that, although activated by different stimuli in different flowering systems, is common to all plants. We show that SFT (SINGLE-FLOWER TRUSS), the tomato ortholog of FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT), induces flowering in day-neutral tomato and tobacco plants...
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