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PLANT SCIENCE: Enhanced: The Right Time and Place for Making Flowers
Miguel A. Blázquez
Although plants respond to environmental conditions such as daylight by signaling mechanisms in their leaves, they coordinate this response to the production of flowers in their shoots. This has long been thought to be accomplished by a motile signal that travels between the two locations. In his Perspective, Blázquez discusses three studies that have determined molecular and genetic details of this coordinated signaling effort and have further identified the elusive motile signal.
The author is at the Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (UPV-CSIC), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain. E-mail: mblazquez{at}ibmcp.upv.es
Mitsutomo Abe, Yasushi Kobayashi, Sumiko Yamamoto, Yasufumi Daimon, Ayako Yamaguchi, Yoko Ikeda, Harutaka Ichinoki, Michitaka Notaguchi, Koji Goto, and Takashi Araki (12 August 2005) Science309 (5737), 1052.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1115983] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supporting Online Material »
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Philip A. Wigge, Min Chul Kim, Katja E. Jaeger, Wolfgang Busch, Markus Schmid, Jan U. Lohmann, and Detlef Weigel (12 August 2005) Science309 (5737), 1056.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1114358] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supporting Online Material »
