▪ Abstract The timing of the transition from vegetative to reproductive development is of great
fundamental and applied interest but is still poorly understood. Recently, molecular-genetic …

Flowering time, a critical adaptive trait, is modulated by several environmental cues. These
external signals converge on a small set of genes that in turn mediate the flowering …

Physiological studies on flowering time control have shown that plants integrate several
environmental signals. Predictable factors, such as day length and vernalization, are …

The mechanisms by which the transition to flowering is regulated in plants have been the
subject of intense physiological study for many years. Recent studies, particularly in …

▪ Abstract Flowering is one of the most intensively studied processes in plant development.
Despite the wide diversity in floral forms, flowers have a simple stereotypical architecture …

Plants do not bloom randomly—but how do they know when and where to make flowers?
Here, we review molecular mechanisms that integrate spatial and temporal information in …

The transition from vegetative to reproductive growth is a major phase change in
angiosperms. In annual plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis), this change is …

The developmental transition to flowering in many plants is timed by changing seasons,
which enables plants to flower at a season that is favorable for seed production. Many plants …

The transition from vegetative to reproductive growth is a critical event in the life cycle of
plants. Previous physiological studies have deduced that hormone-like substances mediate …

Separation of the life cycle of flowering plants into two distinct growth phases, vegetative and
reproductive, is marked by the floral transition. The initial floral inductive signals are …