The genetic basis of flowering responses to seasonal cues

F Andrés, G Coupland - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Plants respond to the changing seasons to initiate developmental programmes precisely at
particular times of year. Flowering is the best characterized of these seasonal responses …

Understanding plant stress memory response for abiotic stress resilience: Molecular insights and prospects

M Sharma, P Kumar, V Verma, R Sharma… - Plant Physiology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
As sessile species and without the possibility of escape, plants constantly face numerous
environmental stresses. To adapt in the external environmental cues, plants adjust …

Genome‐wide analysis of MIKC‐type MADS‐box genes in wheat: pervasive duplications, functional conservation and putative neofunctionalization

S Schilling, A Kennedy, S Pan, LS Jermiin… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is one of the most important crops worldwide. Given a growing
global population coupled with increasingly challenging cultivation conditions, facilitating …

Large deletions within the first intron in VRN-1 are associated with spring growth habit in barley and wheat

D Fu, P Szűcs, L Yan, M Helguera, JS Skinner… - Molecular genetics and …, 2005 - Springer
The broad adaptability of wheat and barley is in part attributable to their flexible growth habit,
in that spring forms have recurrently evolved from the ancestral winter growth habit. In …

Vernalization: winter and the timing of flowering in plants

DH Kim, MR Doyle, S Sung… - Annual Review of Cell …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Plants have evolved many systems to sense their environment and to modify their growth
and development accordingly. One example is vernalization, the process by which flowering …

Phenology and related traits for wheat adaptation

J Hyles, MT Bloomfield, JR Hunt, RM Trethowan… - Heredity, 2020 - nature.com
Wheat is a major food crop, with around 765 million tonnes produced globally. The largest
wheat producers include the European Union, China, India, Russia, United States, Canada …

Allelic variation at the VRN-1 promoter region in polyploid wheat

L Yan, M Helguera, K Kato, S Fukuyama… - Theoretical and applied …, 2004 - Springer
Vernalization, the requirement of a long exposure to low temperatures to induce flowering, is
an essential adaptation of plants to cold winters. We have shown recently that the …

Regulation of flowering in temperate cereals

A Distelfeld, C Li, J Dubcovsky - Current opinion in plant biology, 2009 - Elsevier
Long exposure to cold (vernalization) accelerates flowering in winter cereals, a process
regulated by the VRN1 (≈ AP1), VRN2, and VRN3 (≈ FT) vernalization genes. Flowering …

Genetic architecture underlying light and temperature mediated flowering in Arabidopsis, rice, and temperate cereals

S Cao, X Luo, D Xu, X Tian, J Song, X **a… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Timely flowering is essential for optimum crop reproduction and yield. To determine the best
flowering‐time genes (FTGs) relevant to local adaptation and breeding, it is essential to …

MADS-box genes are key components of genetic regulatory networks involved in abiotic stress and plastic developmental responses in plants

N Castelán-Muñoz, J Herrera… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Plants, as sessile organisms, adapt to different stressful conditions, such as drought, salinity,
extreme temperatures, and nutrient deficiency, via plastic developmental and growth …