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SUBMITTER: Castelletti S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7386623 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Castelletti Sara S Coupel-Ledru Aude A Granato Italo I Palaffre Carine C Cabrera-Bosquet Llorenç L Tonelli Chiara C Nicolas Stéphane D SD Tardieu François F Welcker Claude C Conti Lucio L
PLoS genetics 20200716 7
Expansion of the maize growing area was central for food security in temperate regions. In addition to the suppression of the short-day requirement for floral induction, it required breeding for a large range of flowering time that compensates the effect of South-North gradients of temperatures. Here we show the role of a novel florigen gene, ZCN12, in the latter adaptation in cooperation with ZCN8. Strong eQTLs of ZCN8 and ZCN12, measured in 327 maize lines, accounted for most of the genetic va ...[more]