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Early cone setting in Picea abies acrocona is associated with increased transcriptional activity of a MADS box transcription factor.
Plant physiology - 1 Feb 2013
Uddenberg Daniel, Reimegård Johan, Clapham David, Almqvist Curt, von Arnold Sara, Emanuelsson Olof, Sundström Jens F
Abstract excerpt
Conifers normally go through a long juvenile period, for Norway spruce (Picea abies) around 20 to 25 years, before developing male and female cones. We have grown plants from inbred crosses of a naturally occurring spruce mutant (acrocona). One-fourth of the segregating acrocona plants initiate cones already in their second growth cycle, suggesting control by a single locus. The early cone-setting properties of...
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