An antagonistic pair of FT homologs mediates the control of flowering time in sugar beet

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6009, 2010, Pages 1397-1400

  Pin, Pierre A ^a,b   Benlloch, Reyes ^a   Bonnet, Dominique ^c   Wremerth Weich, Elisabeth ^b   Kraft, Thomas ^b   Gielen, Jan J L ^c   Nilsson, Ove ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Syngenta Seeds AB   (Sweden)

^c Syngenta Seeds SAS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; DATA SET; DAY LENGTH; DICOTYLEDON; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGY; PHOTOPERIOD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHOOT; SUGAR BEET; VERNALIZATION;

ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; FLOWERING; FLOWERING LOCUS T; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPRING; SUGAR BEET; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERNALIZATION; WINTER;

AMARANTHACEAE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BETA VULGARIS; COLD TEMPERATURE; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEASONS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BETA PROCUMBENS; BETA VULGARIS; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS;

EID: 78649711938     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1197004     Document Type: Article

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24. We thank F. Domène, J. Bensefelt, Å. Karlsson, R. Sant, P. van Roggen, and A.-M. Nilsson for technical assistance, and Y. Fischer for help in preparing the manuscript. We also thank C. Bellini for critical reading of the manuscript. This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems to O.N. and T.K., as well as by Südzucker. Phylogenetic data have been deposited with Dryad Digital Repository (DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4930). Nucleotide sequences have been deposited with GenBank under accession numbers HM448909 to HM448918 and HQ148107 to HQ148132. The use of BvFT1 and BvFT2 in control of sugar beet flowering is the subject of the patent application WO2010/025888.