Abstract
Plants show remarkable developmental plasticity to survive in a continually changing environment. One example is their capability to adjust flowering time in response to environmental changes. Ambient growth temperature, which is strongly affected by global temperature changes, has a profound effect on flowering time. However, those effects have been largely ignored in research. Recent molecular genetic studies of Arabidopsis as a model system have implicated several genes, and have identified a molecular mechanism underlying the responses of plants to changes in ambient temperature. Here, we describe recent discoveries related to ambient temperature signaling and the control of flowering time in Arabidopsis. We also discuss current perspectives on how plants sense and respond to such changes.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 321-326 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Plant Biology |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 Aug 30 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:supported by a Korea Research Foundation Grant (KRF-2007-359-C00023) funded by the Korea Government (MOE-HRD). This work was supported by a grant (CG1121) from the Crop Functional Genomics Center of the 21C Frontier Program (J.S. Lee), by a grant from the Science Research Center program (Plant Signaling Network Research Center) of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (Grant no. R11-2003-008-03001-0), and by a grant (#200702100) from the BioGreen 21 Program, Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea (J.H. Ahn).
Keywords
- Ambient temperature
- Flowering time
- Photoreceptor
- Temperature compensation
- Thermosensor
- Thermosensory pathway
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Plant Science