Editorial: Recent Advances in Flowering Time Control

Recent Advances in EMG Pattern Recognition for Prosthetic Control

Recent advances in regulation of flowering

The control of flowering time in plants is critical for plant fitness and for agriculture. The genetic pathways governing this developmental transition are reasonably well understood in Arabidopsis, although substantial new gains are still being made in this system. Much new work is focusing on how the genetic networks governing flowering function in other species.

Update on Development Photoreceptors and Regulation of Flowering Time

One of the most important environmental factors affecting flowering time is the daily duration of light, the photoperiod, which was first discovered by Garner and Allard in the 1920s (Thomas and Vince-Prue, 1997, and refs. therein). Plants in which flowering occurs or is accelerated in short days (SD) or long days (LD) are known as SD plants or LD plants, respectively. LD plants often flower in...

Regulation of flowering in rice: two florigen genes, a complex gene network, and natural variation.

Photoperiodic control of flowering time consists of a complicated network that converges into the generation of a mobile flowering signal called florigen. Recent advances identifying the protein FT/Hd3a as the molecular nature responsible for florigen activity have focused current research on florigen genes as the important output of this complex signaling network. Rice is a model system for sh...

Photoperiodic flowering of Arabidopsis : integrating genetic and physiological approaches to characterization of the floral stimulus

In many plants the transition from vegetative growth to flowering is controlled by environmental cues. One of these cues is day length or photoperiod, which synchronizes flowering of many species with the changing seasons. Recently, advances have been made in understanding the molecular mechanisms that confer photoperiodic control of flowering and, in particular, how inductive events occurring ...