作者
Joanna Putterill, Erika Varkonyi-Gasic
发表日期
2016/10/1
来源
Current Opinion in Plant Biology
卷号
33
页码范围
77-82
出版商
Elsevier Current Trends
简介
Highlights
- Long distance movement of FT protein is regulated by phloem proteins FTIP1 and FE.
- Identification of regions and residues of FT protein that influence florigenic function.
- FT genes can dramatically reduce the juvenile phase in trees and speed up breeding.
- Evidence for FT as a long distance florigen in woody perennials is very rare.
The great hunt for florigen, the universal, long distance flowering regulator proposed by Chailakhan in the 1930s, resulted in the discovery a decade ago that FT-like proteins fulfilled the predictions for florigen. They are small (∼ 175 amino acids), globular, phosphatidylethanolamine-binding (PEBP) proteins, phloem-expressed, graft-transmissible and able to move to the shoot apex to act as potent stimulators of flowering in many plants. Genes that regulate Arabidopsis FT protein movement and some features of Arabidopsis FT protein that make it an effective florigen have …
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J Putterill, E Varkonyi-Gasic - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2016