Laboratory of Plant Physiology, University of Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium.
J Exp Bot. 2013 Dec;64(18):5795-9. doi: 10.1093/jxb/err114. Epub 2011 May 16.
My favourite flowering image shows a section in a shoot apical meristem of Sinapis alba undertaking the very first step of its transition to flowering. This step is the activation of the SaSOC1 gene, the Sinapis orthologue of Arabidopsis SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CO1 (SOC1), in a few central cells of the meristem. Hidden behind this picture is my long quest of physiological signals controlling flowering. Milestones of this story are briefly recounted here and this gives me an opportunity to raise a number of questions about the nature and function of florigen.
我最喜欢的开花图像显示了白芥茎尖分生组织中的一个部分，它正在进行向开花过渡的第一步。这一步是 SaSOC1 基因的激活，SaSOC1 是拟南芥 SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CO1（SOC1）在分生组织中几个中央细胞中的白芥同源物。这张图片的背后是我对控制开花的生理信号的长期探索。这个故事的里程碑在这里简要叙述，这让我有机会提出一些关于成花素的本质和功能的问题。
