Move on up, it’s time for change—mobile signals controlling photoperiod-dependent flowering
Abstract
Plants do not bloom randomly—but how do they know when and where to make flowers? Here, we review molecular mechanisms that integrate spatial and temporal information in day-length-dependent flowering. Primarily through genetic analyses in two species, Arabidopsis thaliana and rice, we today understand the essentials of two central issues in plant biology: how the appropriate photoperiod generates an inductive stimulus based on an external coincidence mechanism, and the nature of the mobile flowering signal, florigen, which relays photoperiod-dependent information from the leaf to the growing tip of the plant, the shoot apex.
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↵1 Corresponding author.
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Article is online at http://www.genesdev.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/gad.1589007
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