Article
Variation in the flowering gene SELF PRUNING 5G promotes day-neutrality and early yield in tomato.
Nature genetics - 1 Jan 2017
Soyk Sebastian, Müller Niels A, Park Soon Ju, Schmalenbach Inga, Jiang Ke, Hayama Ryosuke, Zhang Lei, Van Eck Joyce, Jiménez-Gómez José M, Lippman Zachary B
Abstract excerpt
Plants evolved so that their flowering is triggered by seasonal changes in day length. However, day-length sensitivity in crops limits their geographical range of cultivation, and thus modification of the photoperiod response was critical for their domestication. Here we show that loss of day-length-sensitive flowering in tomato was driven by the florigen paralog and flowering repressor SELF-PRUNING 5G (SP5G)....
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