Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan.
School of Agriculture and Food, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
J Exp Bot. 2020 May 9;71(9):2490-2504. doi: 10.1093/jxb/eraa057.
Many plants synchronize their life cycles in response to changing seasons and initiate flowering under favourable environmental conditions to ensure reproductive success. To confer a robust seasonal response, plants use diverse genetic programmes that integrate environmental and endogenous cues and converge on central floral regulatory hubs. Technological advances have allowed us to understand these complex processes more completely. Here, we review recent progress in our understanding of genetic and molecular mechanisms that control flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana.
许多植物会根据季节变化来同步它们的生命周期，并在有利的环境条件下启动开花过程，以确保繁殖成功。为了赋予植物稳健的季节性响应能力，它们利用了多样化的遗传程序，这些程序整合了环境和内源性信号，并汇聚到中央的花发育调控枢纽上。技术的进步使我们能够更全面地理解这些复杂的过程。在这里，我们回顾了近年来我们对拟南芥开花的遗传和分子机制的理解所取得的进展。
