Plant development progresses through distinct phases: vegetative growth, followed by a
reproductive phase and eventually seed set and senescence. The transitions between these …

In the long evolutionary history, plant has evolved elaborate regulatory network to control
functional gene expression for surviving and thriving, such as transcription factor‐regulated …

Correct developmental timing is essential for plant fitness and reproductive success. Two
important transitions in shoot development—the juvenile-to-adult vegetative transition and …

The transition from the juvenile to the adult phase of shoot development in plants is
accompanied by changes in vegetative morphology and an increase in reproductive …

In plants, seasonal changes in day length are perceived in leaves, which initiate long-
distance signaling that induces flowering at the shoot apex. The identity of the long-distance …

The FT gene integrates several external and endogenous cues controlling flowering,
including information on day length. A complex of the mobile FT protein and the bZIP …

Flowering of Arabidopsis is regulated by several environmental and endogenous signals.
An important integrator of these inputs is the FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) gene, which …

Plant microRNAs (miRNAs) affect only a small number of targets with high sequence
complementarity, while animal miRNAs usually have hundreds of targets with limited …

Most plant microRNAs (miRNAs) have perfect or near-perfect complementarity with their
targets. This is consistent with their primary mode of action being cleavage of target mRNAs …

SPL3, SPL4 and SPL5 (SPL3/4/5) are closely related members of the SQUAMOSA
PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN-LIKE family of transcription factors in Arabidopsis, and …