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. 2010 Oct;154(2):516-20.
doi: 10.1104/pp.110.161653.

The timing of flowering

Richard M Amasino  1 , Scott D Michaels
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The timing of flowering

Richard M Amasino et al. Plant Physiol. 2010 Oct.
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Figure 1.
Seasonal regulation of flowering in winter-annual Arabidopsis. The flowering pathways that are active in each season are indicated by green or red boxes; green is promotive and red is repressive. Beige indicates inactive. In the summer/fall establishment phase, FLC prevents flowering by repressing floral integrators that would otherwise be induced by CO in response to long days (left). During the short days of winter, the photoperiod pathway is not active and vernalization leads to the induction of VIN3 and epigenetic repression of FLC (center). By the spring season, FLC repression is complete and is maintained by PRC2 and LHP1 (and VRN1; not pictured); in the lengthening days of spring, CO activates floral integrators free of competition from FLC and flowering is initiated (right).
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