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delayed flowering1 Encodes a basic leucine zipper protein that mediates floral inductive signals at the shoot apex in maize.
Plant physiology - 1 Dec 2006
Muszynski Michael G, Dam Thao, Li Bailin, Shirbroun David M, Hou Zhenglin, Bruggemann Edward, Archibald Rayeann, Ananiev Evgueni V, Danilevskaya Olga N
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Separation of the life cycle of flowering plants into two distinct growth phases, vegetative and reproductive, is marked by the floral transition. The initial floral inductive signals are perceived in the leaves and transmitted to the shoot apex, where the vegetative shoot apical meristem is restructured into a reproductive meristem. In this study, we report cloning and characterization of the maize (Zea mays)...
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