Regulation of temperature-responsive flowering by MADS-box transcription factor repressors. Lee, J. H., Ryu, H., Chung, K. S., Posé, D., Kim, S., Schmid, M., & Ahn, J. H. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6158):628–632, November, 2013.
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Changes in ambient temperature affect flowering time in plants; understanding this phenomenon will be crucial for buffering agricultural systems from the effects of climate change. Here, we show that levels of FLM-β, an alternatively spliced form of the flowering repressor FLOWERING LOCUS M, increase at lower temperatures, repressing flowering. FLM-β interacts with SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (SVP); SVP is degraded at high temperatures, reducing the abundance of the SVP-FLM-β repressor complex and, thus, allowing the plant to flower. The svp and flm mutants show temperature-insensitive flowering in different temperature ranges. Control of SVP-FLM-β repressor complex abundance via transcriptional and splicing regulation of FLM and posttranslational regulation of SVP protein stability provides an efficient, rapid mechanism for plants to respond to ambient temperature changes.
@article{lee_regulation_2013,
	title = {Regulation of temperature-responsive flowering by {MADS}-box transcription factor repressors},
	volume = {342},
	issn = {1095-9203},
	doi = {10/f5fmt6},
	abstract = {Changes in ambient temperature affect flowering time in plants; understanding this phenomenon will be crucial for buffering agricultural systems from the effects of climate change. Here, we show that levels of FLM-β, an alternatively spliced form of the flowering repressor FLOWERING LOCUS M, increase at lower temperatures, repressing flowering. FLM-β interacts with SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (SVP); SVP is degraded at high temperatures, reducing the abundance of the SVP-FLM-β repressor complex and, thus, allowing the plant to flower. The svp and flm mutants show temperature-insensitive flowering in different temperature ranges. Control of SVP-FLM-β repressor complex abundance via transcriptional and splicing regulation of FLM and posttranslational regulation of SVP protein stability provides an efficient, rapid mechanism for plants to respond to ambient temperature changes.},
	language = {eng},
	number = {6158},
	journal = {Science (New York, N.Y.)},
	author = {Lee, Jeong Hwan and Ryu, Hak-Seung and Chung, Kyung Sook and Posé, David and Kim, Soonkap and Schmid, Markus and Ahn, Ji Hoon},
	month = nov,
	year = {2013},
	pmid = {24030492},
	keywords = {Alternative Splicing, Arabidopsis, Arabidopsis Proteins, Flowers, Gene Expression Regulation, Plant, MADS Domain Proteins, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutation, Repressor Proteins, Temperature, Transcription Factors},
	pages = {628--632},
}

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