Long-Sought Plant Flowering Signal Unmasked, Again
Apr 26th, 2007 by Axel
Two new reports, published online by Science this week (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1141752 and www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1141753), have identified the signal that tells plants to flower. Contrary to work reported in 2005 showing that the signal was messenger RNA, the new work fingers the so-called flowering locus T protein. (Read more.)