Physiological studies on flowering time control have shown that plants integrate several
environmental signals. Predictable factors, such as day length and vernalization, are regarded …

TERMINAL FLOWER1 (TFL1) was named from knockout Arabidopsis thaliana mutants in
which the inflorescence abnormally terminates into a flower. In wild type plants, the expression …

CONSTANS (CO) promotes flowering of Arabidopsis in response to long photoperiods.
Transgenic plants carrying CO fused with the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter (35S::CO) …

Flowering is a hot topic in Plant Biology and important progress has been made in Arabidopsis
thaliana toward unraveling the genetic networks involved. The increasing complexity and …

Background Recent years have seen an increase in methods for plant phenotyping using
image analyses. These methods require new software solutions for data extraction and …

Understanding the complete picture of floral transition is still impaired by the fact that physiological
studies mainly concern plant species whose genetics is poorly known, and vice versa. …

Background Arabidopsis thaliana is now the model organism for genetic and molecular plant
studies, but growing conditions may still impair the significance and reproducibility of the …

Cytokinins are involved in many aspects of plant growth and development, and physiological
evidence also indicates that they have a role in floral transition. In order to integrate these …

Lateral root (LR) emergence represents a highly coordinated process in which the plant
hormone auxin plays a central role. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been proposed to …

In plants of Sinapis alba and Arabidopsis thaliana, leaf exudate (phloem sap) was analysed
during and after a single long day inducing flowering and in control short days. The amounts …