Changing Responses to Changing Seasons: Natural Variation in the Plasticity of Flowering Time

Plant Physiol. 2017 Jan;173(1):16-26. doi: 10.1104/pp.16.01683. Epub 2016 Nov 21.

Abstract

The mechanisms by which the environment regulates flowering time have evolved as crops and wild populations have adapted to diverse climates, and the specific variants involved are increasingly known.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Physiological
  • Alleles
  • Biological Evolution
  • Environment
  • Flowers / genetics
  • Flowers / physiology*
  • Genetic Variation*
  • Genotype
  • Magnoliopsida / genetics
  • Magnoliopsida / physiology*
  • Phenotype
  • Photoperiod*
  • Reproduction
  • Seasons
  • Temperature
  • Time Factors