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Functional alleles of the flowering time regulator FRIGIDA in the Brassica oleracea genome.
BMC plant biology - 14 Feb 2012
Irwin Judith A, Lister Clare, Soumpourou Eleni, Zhang Yanwen, Howell Elaine C, Teakle Graham, Dean Caroline
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BACKGROUND: Plants adopt different reproductive strategies as an adaptation to growth in a range of climates. In Arabidopsis thaliana FRIGIDA (FRI) confers a vernalization requirement and thus winter annual habit by increasing the expression of the MADS box transcriptional repressor FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC). Variation at FRI plays a major role in A. thaliana life history strategy, as independent loss-of-function...
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