But the chemical identity of florigen eluded discovery. From Wordnik.com. [News from The Scientist] Reference
But, remarkably, the florigen gene also boosted the sugar and sweetness of individual fruits. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Plant geneticist George Coupland and colleagues showed that florigen, at least in the flowering. From Wordnik.com. [News from The Scientist] Reference
What the researchers found is that to maximize yield, there can't be too much or too little florigen. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
But, remarkably, the florigen gene also boosted sugar content and sweetness of the individual fruits. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
This hybrid had one normal copy and one mutated copy of a single gene that produces a protein called florigen. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories] Reference
Science paper did cause Coupland to be extra careful about assembling his evidence that the FT protein was florigen. From Wordnik.com. [News from The Scientist] Reference
SINGLE FLOWER TRUSS (SFT), which is the genetic originator of the flowering hormone florigen, increases yield by up to 60%. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
This led to the next research topic of discovering how florigen participates within the plant to cause plant flowers to blossom. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Step up research output, technology minister tells scientists] Reference
The researchers are already planning to explore if genes related to florigen in other crops can cause heterosis and improve yield. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Science where Coupland published his results, a Japanese team identified an ortholog of the FT protein as the florigen in rice (another Hot Paper). From Wordnik.com. [News from The Scientist] Reference
Science, which published the 2005 paper, was heralding it as a "breakthrough of the year," and plant biology textbooks began reporting that florigen was. From Wordnik.com. [News from The Scientist] Reference
This hybrid, the team found, produced greater yields because there was one normal copy and one mutated copy of a single gene that produces a protein called florigen. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
This hybrid, the team found, produced greater yields because there was one normal copy and one mutated copy of only a single gene that produces a protein called florigen. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
If Scientists can produce the florigen substance, flowers can be caused to blossom regardless of whether a plant is a short day flowering plant or a long day flowering plant. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Step up research output, technology minister tells scientists] Reference
In plants such as tomatoes, flowering (and therefore yield) is controlled by a delicate balance between the florigen protein, which promotes flowering, and another related protein that delays flowering. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
In plants such as tomatoes, flowering (and therefore yield) is controlled by a delicate balance between the florigen protein, which promotes flowering, and another related protein, that delays flowering. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
As Coupland and his group sought to provide support for their hypothesis that florigen was a protein, Swedish researchers in 2005 claimed that they had discovered that florigen was mRNA transcribed from the. From Wordnik.com. [News from The Scientist] Reference
Knott tracked the unidentified florigen traveling through the vascular system of a spinach plant, and other scientists worked out parts of the molecular pathway that allowed plants to sense environmental changes and respond by producing flowers. From Wordnik.com. [News from The Scientist] Reference
The Graduate School of Biological Sciences discovered florigen, which promotes flower formation and identified florigen as the same Hd3a gene that promotes the blooming of rice, and applied this substance to chrysanthemums in research that resulted in early blossoming. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Step up research output, technology minister tells scientists] Reference
Since Coupland's long-awaited discovery, his lab and others have continued to answer other lingering questions in flowering pathways, while other plant biologists have corroborated his results and pinpointed the identity of florigen in other, more agriculturally relevant, plants. From Wordnik.com. [News from The Scientist] Reference
"What we find is that to maximize yield, you can't have too much or too little florigen. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
"What we find is that to maximise yield, you can't have too much or too little florigen. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories] Reference
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