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Three Roles for Gibberellin in Flowering

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Phytohormones in Plant Biotechnology and Agriculture

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Seasonal flowering of plants involves responses to many environmental signals including changes in irradiance, temperature and daylength. The range and complexity of environmental inputs is summarized by Thomas and Vince-Prue (1997) but integrating this information into plant response has only begun recently. Genetic studies of flowering time in Arabidopsis (Simpson and Dean, 2002) highlight a network of interacting pathways involving plant response to daylength, vernalization, photosynthetic input and gibberellin (GA) and a fifth, autonomous pathway, whereby the plant progresses to flowering in the absence of external signals.

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King, R. (2003). Three Roles for Gibberellin in Flowering. In: Macháčková, I., Romanov, G.A. (eds) Phytohormones in Plant Biotechnology and Agriculture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2664-1_3

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