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A Scottish Spring: Regulated gene expression in the control of flowering time

Author(s) -

Gordon G. Simpson

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

the biochemist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 1740-1194

pISSN - 0954-982X

DOI - 10.1042/bio02804025

Subject(s) - spring (device) , arabidopsis , biology , expression (computer science) , gene , history , botany , genetics , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , programming language , mutant

Spring has arrived as I sit down to write this article in the garden of my Dundee home. Next to the dry-stane dyke and ahead of my Aquilegia, Arabidopsis plants have come into flower. They must think there is something special about this time of year, as I've seen them first come into flower here in April of the last 3 years (Figure 1). How do they know that April has arrived?

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