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SUBMITTER: Wood CC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1600011 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wood Craig C CC Robertson Masumi M Tanner Greg G Peacock W James WJ Dennis Elizabeth S ES Helliwell Chris A CA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060918 39
In Arabidopsis thaliana, the promotion of flowering by cold temperatures, vernalization, is regulated via a floral-repressive MADS box transcription factor, FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC). Vernalization leads to the epigenetic repression of FLC expression, a process that requires the polycomb group (PcG) protein VERNALIZATION 2 (VRN2) and the plant homeodomain protein VERNALIZATION INSENSITIVE 3 (VIN3). We demonstrate that the repression of FLC by vernalization requires homologues of other Polycomb Rep ...[more]