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Phytochrome C plays a major role in the acceleration of wheat flowering under long-day photoperiod.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Jul 2014
Chen Andrew, Li Chengxia, Hu Wei, Lau Mei Yee, Lin Huiqiong, Rockwell Nathan C, Martin Shelley S, Jernstedt Judith A, Lagarias J Clark, Dubcovsky Jorge
Abstract excerpt
Phytochromes are dimeric proteins that function as red and far-red light sensors influencing nearly every phase of the plant life cycle. Of the three major phytochrome families found in flowering plants, phytochrome C (PHYC) is the least understood. In Arabidopsis and rice, PHYC is unstable and functionally inactive unless it heterodimerizes with another phytochrome. However, when expressed in an Arabidopsis...
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