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Regulation and identity of florigen: FLOWERING LOCUS T moves center stage.
Annual review of plant biology - 1 Jan 2008
Turck Franziska, Fornara Fabio, Coupland George
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The transition from vegetative to reproductive growth is controlled by day length in many plant species. Day length is perceived in leaves and induces a systemic signal, called florigen, that moves through the phloem to the shoot apex. At the shoot apical meristem (SAM), florigen causes changes in gene expression that reprogram the SAM to form flowers instead of leaves. Analysis of flowering of Arabidopsis...
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