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An antagonistic pair of FT homologs mediates the control of flowering time in sugar beet.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 3 Dec 2010
Pin Pierre A, Benlloch Reyes, Bonnet Dominique, Wremerth-Weich Elisabeth, Kraft Thomas, Gielen Jan J L, Nilsson Ove
Abstract excerpt
Cultivated beets (Beta vulgaris ssp. vulgaris) are unable to form reproductive shoots during the first year of their life cycle. Flowering only occurs if plants get vernalized, that is, pass through the winter, and are subsequently exposed to an increasing day length (photoperiod) in spring. Here, we show that the regulation of flowering time in beets is controlled by the interplay of two paralogs of the...
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