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ReviewPlant physiology2024

Flowering time: From physiology, through genetics to mechanism.

Robert Maple, Pan Zhu, Jo Hepworth, Jia-Wei Wang, Caroline Dean

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Review in Plant physiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
52citing papers in PubMed
59.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 100 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Robert MapleDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9175-5024
Pan ZhuDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0029-3571
Jo HepworthDepartment of Biosciences, Durham University, Stockton Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4621-8414
Jia-Wei WangNational Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics (NKLPMG), CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences (CEMPS), Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology (SIPPE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai 200032, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3885-6296
Caroline DeanDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6555-3525
John Innes Centre · GBChinese Academy of Sciences · CNDurham University · GB

Funding

European Research Council EPISWITCH- 833254Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 210654/Z/18/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plant species have evolved different requirements for environmental/endogenous cues to induce flowering. Originally, these varying requirements were thought to reflect the action of different molecular mechanisms. Thinking changed when genetic and molecular analysis in Arabidopsis thaliana revealed that a network of environmental and endogenous signaling input pathways converge to regulate a common set of "floral pathway integrators." Variation in the predominance of the different input pathways within a network can generate the diversity of requirements observed in different species. Many genes identified by flowering time mutants were found to encode general developmental and gene regulators, with their targets having a specific flowering function. Studies of natural variation in flowering were more successful at identifying genes acting as nodes in the network central to adaptation and domestication. Attention has now turned to mechanistic dissection of flowering time gene function and how that has changed during adaptation. This will inform breeding strategies for climate-proof crops and help define which genes act as critical flowering nodes in many other species.

Indexed as

ArabidopsisFlowersGene Expression Regulation, PlantAdaptation, PhysiologicalArabidopsis ProteinsGenes, PlantSignal TransductionTime FactorsArabidopsis Proteins

Identifiers

PMID38417841
PMCPMC11060688
OpenAlexW4392771891

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