CO/FT regulatory module controls timing of flowering and seasonal growth cessation in trees. Bohlenius, H., Huang, T., Charbonnel-Campaa, L., Brunner, A. M., Jansson, S., Strauss, S. H., & Nilsson, O. Science, 312(5776):1040–1043, May, 2006. Place: Washington Publisher: Amer Assoc Advancement Science WOS:000237628800042
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Forest trees display a perennial growth behavior characterized by a multiple-year delay in flowering and, in temperate regions, an annual cycling between growth and dormancy. We show here that the CO/FT regulatory module, which controls flowering time in response to variations in daylength in annual plants, controls flowering in aspen trees. Unexpectedly, however, it also controls the short-day-induced growth cessation and bud set occurring in the fall. This regulatory mechanism can explain the ecogenetic variation in a highly adaptive trait: the critical daylength for growth cessation displayed by aspen trees sampled across a latitudinal gradient spanning northern Europe.
@article{bohlenius_coft_2006,
	title = {{CO}/{FT} regulatory module controls timing of flowering and seasonal growth cessation in trees},
	volume = {312},
	issn = {0036-8075},
	doi = {10/csznqf},
	abstract = {Forest trees display a perennial growth behavior characterized by a multiple-year delay in flowering and, in temperate regions, an annual cycling between growth and dormancy. We show here that the CO/FT regulatory module, which controls flowering time in response to variations in daylength in annual plants, controls flowering in aspen trees. Unexpectedly, however, it also controls the short-day-induced growth cessation and bud set occurring in the fall. This regulatory mechanism can explain the ecogenetic variation in a highly adaptive trait: the critical daylength for growth cessation displayed by aspen trees sampled across a latitudinal gradient spanning northern Europe.},
	language = {English},
	number = {5776},
	journal = {Science},
	author = {Bohlenius, H. and Huang, T. and Charbonnel-Campaa, L. and Brunner, A. M. and Jansson, S. and Strauss, S. H. and Nilsson, O.},
	month = may,
	year = {2006},
	note = {Place: Washington
Publisher: Amer Assoc Advancement Science
WOS:000237628800042},
	keywords = {arabidopsis, aspen populus-tremula, black cottonwood, bud set, candidate gene, ft, induction, phytochrome, protein, shoot   apex},
	pages = {1040--1043},
}

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