Species-wide gene editing of a flowering regulator reveals hidden phenotypic variation.

Abstract excerpt

Genes do not act in isolation, and the effects of a specific variant at one locus can often be greatly modified by polymorphic variants at other loci. A good example is FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC), which has been inferred to explain much of the flowering time variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. We use a set of 62 flc species-wide mutants to document pleiotropic, genotype-dependent effects for FLC on flowering as well...

Topics

• Gene Editing
• Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
• Gene Expression
• Flowers
• MADS Domain Proteins
• Mutation