Plasticity versus Adaptation of Ambient-Temperature Flowering Response

Alice Pajoro; Leonie Verhage; Richard G H Immink

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2015.11.015

Plasticity versus Adaptation of Ambient-Temperature Flowering Response

Trends Plant Sci. 2016 Jan;21(1):6-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.11.015. Epub 2015 Dec 14.

Authors

Alice Pajoro¹, Leonie Verhage¹, Richard G H Immink²

Affiliations

¹ Plant Research International, Bioscience, Wageningen, PB 6708, The Netherlands; Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, PB 6708, The Netherlands.
² Plant Research International, Bioscience, Wageningen, PB 6708, The Netherlands; Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, PB 6708, The Netherlands. Electronic address: Richard.Immink@wur.nl.

PMID: 26698930
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.11.015

Abstract

It is challenging to understand how plants adapt flowering time to novel environmental conditions, such as global warming, while maintaining plasticity in response to daily fluctuating temperatures. A recent study shows a role for transposons and highlights the need to investigate how these different responses evolved.

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MeSH terms

Arabidopsis / genetics*
Arabidopsis Proteins / genetics*
Flowers / genetics*
MADS Domain Proteins / genetics*
Mutagenesis, Insertional / genetics*

Substances

Arabidopsis Proteins
MADS Domain Proteins