Flowering time: From physiology, through genetics to mechanism

Plant species have evolved different requirements for environmental/endogenous cues to induce flowering. Originally, these varying requirements were thought to reflect the action of different molecular mechanisms. Thinking changed when genetic and molecular analysis in Arabidopsis thaliana revealed that a network of environmental and endogenous signaling input pathways converge to regulate a common set of "floral pathway integrators." Variation in the predominance of the different input pathways within a network can generate the diversity of requirements observed in different species. Many genes identified by flowering time mutants were found to encode general developmental and gene regulators, with their…

• WT
  Wellcome Trust

  Awards: 210654, 210654/Z/18/Z
• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 32388201, 31721001
• DF
  Directorate for Biological Sciences
• BA
  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  Award: BBS/E/JI/230002B
• HE
  HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council

  Award: EPISWITCH- 833254