Control of the transition to flowering

✍ Scribed by Joseph Colasanti; Venkatesan Sundaresan

• Book ID: 104361897
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 552 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0958-1669
• DOI: 10.1016/s0958-1669(96)80004-8

✦ Synopsis

Genetic analysis of flowering mutants and the recent cloning of genes that specifically regulate flowering time have advanced our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the transition from vegetative to reproductive growth. Encouraging results from transgenic plants suggest that altering the flowering time of agriculturally important plants will soon be possible.