Many plants synchronize their life cycles in response to changing seasons and initiate
flowering under favourable environmental conditions to ensure reproductive success. To …

Fluctuations in environmental conditions greatly influence life on earth. Plants, as sessile
organisms, have developed molecular mechanisms to adapt their development to changes …

Chromatin accessibility and modification is a hallmark of regulatory DNA, the study of which
led to the discovery of cis-regulatory elements (CREs). Here, we characterize chromatin …

Plants evolved so that their flowering is triggered by seasonal changes in day length.
However, day-length sensitivity in crops limits their geographical range of cultivation, and …

The three-dimensional packing of the genome plays an important role in regulating gene
expression. We have used Hi-C, a genome-wide chromatin conformation capture (3C) …

Transcriptional silencer and copy number variants (CNVs) are associated with gene
expression. However, their roles in generating phenotypes have not been well studied. Here …

Background While most cells in multicellular organisms carry the same genetic information,
in each cell type only a subset of genes is being transcribed. Such differentiation in gene …

Flowering is initiated in response to environmental and internal cues that are integrated at
the shoot apical meristem (SAM). We show that SPL15 coordinates the basal floral …

The transition to flowering marks a key adaptive developmental switch in plants which
impacts on their survival and fitness. Different signaling pathways control the floral transition …

Although it is well appreciated that genetic studies of flowering time regulation have led to
fundamental advances in the fields of molecular and developmental biology, the ways in …