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Chlamydomonas CONSTANS and the evolution of plant photoperiodic signaling.
Current biology : CB - 10 Mar 2009
Serrano Gloria, Herrera-Palau Rosana, Romero José M, Serrano Aurelio, Coupland George, Valverde Federico
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BACKGROUND: The circadian clock controls several important processes in plant development, including the phase transition from vegetative growth to flowering. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the circadian-regulated gene CONSTANS (CO) plays a central role in the photoperiodic control of the floral transition, one of the most conserved flowering responses among distantly related plants. CO is a member of a plant-specific...
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