How do climatic cues influence flowering time in natural populations of wild radish in northern and southern Japan?
Tag - flowering time
William Salter
The reason domesticated lentils are fussy about their lighting is in their genes
A comparison with wild lentils highlights how gene expression varies when light shifts from red to near infra-red light.
Alun Salt
Flowering time likely an important driver of speciation in South African Restionaceae
Allochrony is one of few ways for wind-pollinated species to achieve reproductive isolation.
Erin Zimmerman
Global warming and earlier flowering: a thermogradient tunnel experiment
Winter annual Arabidopsis ecotypes have a distinct advantage over summer annuals in expected global warming scenarios.
Juniper Kiss
Topography Leaves Its Mark in Goldenrod Genetics
The variation of montane environments means that the genetics of alpine goldenrods populations differ more than their lowland cousins.
Fi Gennu
Parallel functional differentiation of an invasive annual plant on two continents
Broadly distributed species encompass populations spread across habitats that vary in their climatic, edaphic and biotic environmental characteristics. The success of broadly distributed species across a wide range of...
Quantifying temporal change in plant population attributes: insights from a resurrection approach
Plant populations vary over time as a result of the effects of environmental variation on life-cycle traits and genetic diversity. It is important to quantify how much populations actually change over time to better...
When is it your time to bloom? For a plant, it’s HISTONE DEACETYLASE 19 and FD that decides
A shoot shouldn't become a flower too early, but needs some control over when the process happens. A paper in JXB finds the genes responsible.
Dale Maylea
The autonomous flowering-time pathway pleiotropically regulates seed germination
Despite some degree of functional divergence between the regulation of flowering and germination by autonomous-pathway genes, the autonomous pathway is highly functionally conserved across life stages.
botanyone
Using dormant twigs to investigate climate change (Viewpoint)
Climate change has altered the spring phenology of many temperate plants, with important ecological consequences. However, studies of phenological shifts are generally restricted to field observations or remote-sensing...
Temporal variation in gender in an annual plant
The widespread tendency towards declining fruit set from first to last flowers on plants may contribute to temporal variation in allocation optima.
Selection on a CONSTANS-like gene between two red oaks
Oaks can provide a model to study hybridization as they often maintain species integrity and distinct environmental adaptations despite recurrent gene flow. Lind-Riehl et al. identify candidate genes potentially...
Variation of genes responsible for maturity loci in soybean
This study's results suggest the existence of unidentified genes for flowering in soybean.
Flowering time control by miR159 in gloxinia
Gloxinia (Sinningia speciosa) is a popular ornamental plant with attractive, colourful flowers, but the genetic mechanisms that regulate flowering are largely unknown. Li et al. generate transgenic gloxinia plants that...
