Chinese researchers have found a genetic code that may regulate the flowering time of plants, according to the Kunming Institute of Botany under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Plants can adjust their flowering time in response to environmental stresses to ensure their reproduction is successful. Scientists believe there could be common regulators controlling plants' response to environmental threats and their flowering time, which need further study.
A research team of the institute studied the role of heat shock protein 101 (HSP101) in controlling the flowering of plants under environmental stresses by using physiological, molecular and genetic methods and found that HSP101 might be one of the common regulators.
The study was recently published in the journal Plant Physiology. (Xinhua)
Recently, Prof. YU Diqiu and his team from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences newly identified Arabidopsis thaliana WRKY DNA binding protein75 (WRKY75) as a positive regulator of flowering initiation.
Prof. YU Diqiu and his team of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) studied the roles of two WRKY proteins, WRKY12 and WRKY13, in flowering time control under short day conditions in Arabidopsis. Their study showed that the two WRKYs regulate flowering under sho...
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