Climate change is multi-faceted, and includes changing concentrations of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere, rising temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and …

Our understanding of the detailed molecular mechanisms underpinning adaptation is still
poor. One example for which mechanistic understanding of regulation has converged with …

The transition to flowering marks a key adaptive developmental switch in plants which
impacts on their survival and fitness. Different signaling pathways control the floral transition …

Plants integrate widely fluctuating temperatures to monitor seasonal progression. Here, we
investigate the temperature signals in field conditions that result in vernalisation, the …

Responses to environmental cues synchronize reproduction of higher plants to the changing
seasons. The genetic basis of these responses has been intensively studied in the …

Changing Responses to Changing Seasons: Natural Variation in the Plasticity of Flowering
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In Arabidopsis thaliana, winter is registered during vernalization through the temperature-
dependent repression and epigenetic silencing of floral repressor FLOWERING LOCUS C …

Plants with winter annual life history germinate in summer or autumn and require a period of
prolonged winter cold to initiate flowering, known as vernalization. In the Brassicaceae, the …

Contrary to previous assumptions that most mutations are deleterious, there is increasing
evidence for persistence of large-effect mutations in natural populations. A possible …

The relevance of flowering time variation and plasticity to climate adaptation requires a
comprehensive empirical assessment. We investigated natural selection and the genetic …