Elizabeth S. Dennis, David Bagnall, E. Jean Finnegan, Chris Helliwell, Rod King, Colleen MacMillan, Dean Rouse, Candice C. Sheldon, Million Tadege and W. James Peacock Flowering is a complex process ...

Scientists have taken another crucial step towards understanding how plants initiate flowering. This new development uncovers a previously unidentified step in the process of vernalization, which ...

Understanding the molecular basis of adaptive variation is one of the main goals of ecological and evolutionary genetics. Recent work from Shindo and colleagues reveals that variation in epigenetic ...

The FLC gene and vernalization have been of interest to researchers because of how changes in our climate could affect plants. Plants grown in colder climates need much longer vernalization periods, ...

Post graduate students in Kobe University's Graduate School of Agricultural Science have revealed the role of genes in controlling flowering time in the Brassica rapa family. Satoko Takada and Ayasha ...

Biennial crops, such as Swiss chard, require exposure to cold in order to flower and set seeds, but the result is not immediately apparent. Evidence that a plant’s vernalization requirement has been ...

While we’re all anticipating spring, it’s still only February. Outside, we can see our plants resting over winter, but just because they are dormant doesn’t mean they haven’t been doing anything all ...

Doctoral student Ayasha Akter (Kobe University's Graduate School of Agricultural Science) and technical staff member Satoshi Takahashi (from the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science) have ...

January ushers in more than just winter. It is the season of the four “tions”: brumation, hibernation, migration and vernalization. Each of these represents a specific behavior that ultimately affects ...