Plant species have evolved different requirements for environmental/endogenous cues to
induce flowering. Originally, these varying requirements were thought to reflect the action of …

The mode of abscisic acid (ABA) action, and its relations to drought adaptive responses in
particular, has been a captivating area of plant hormone research for much over a decade …

Flowering is a hot topic in Plant Biology and important progress has been made in
Arabidopsis thaliana toward unraveling the genetic networks involved. The increasing …

Flowering is one of the most critical developmental transitions in plants' life. The irreversible
change from the vegetative to the reproductive stage is strictly controlled to ensure the …

The florigen paradigm implies a universal flowering-inducing hormone that is common to all
flowering plants. Recent work identified FT orthologues as originators of florigen and their …

Flowering time plays a significant role in the reproductive success of plants. So far, five
major pathways to flowering have been characterized in Arabidopsis, including …

A repressor of the transition to flowering in Arabidopsis is the MADS box protein
FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC). FCA, an RNA-binding protein, and FY, a homolog of the …

Abstract Background In arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) and
FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) play key roles in regulating seasonal flowering-responses to …

Stomatal guard cells are functionally specialized epidermal cells usually arranged in pairs
surrounding a pore. Changes in ion fluxes, and more specifically osmolytes, within the guard …

The transition from vegetative to reproductive growth phase is a pivotal and complicated
process in the life cycle of flowering plants which requires a comprehensive response to …