Adaptation to seasonality and the winter freeze

JC Preston, SR Sandve - Frontiers in plant science, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Flowering plants initially diversified during the Mesozoic era at least 140 million years ago in
regions of the world where temperate seasonal environments were not encountered. Since …

Crop plants as models for understanding plant adaptation and diversification

KM Olsen, JF Wendel - Frontiers in plant science, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Since the time of Darwin, biologists have understood the promise of crop plants and their
wild relatives for providing insight into the mechanisms of phenotypic evolution. The intense …

Developmental and molecular characterization of novel staminodes in Aquilegia

C Meaders, Y Min, KJ Freedberg, E Kramer - Annals of Botany, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims The ranunculid model system Aquilegia is notable for the
presence of a fifth type of floral organ, the staminode, which appears to be the result of …

Homologs of LEAFY and UNUSUAL FLORAL ORGANS Promote the Transition From Inflorescence to Floral Meristem Identity in the Cymose Aquilegia coerulea

B Sharma, C Meaders, D Wolfe, L Holappa… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Homologs of the transcription factor LEAFY (LFY) and the F-box family member UNUSUAL
FLORAL ORGANS (UFO) have been found to promote floral meristem identity across …

Effects of seed vernalisation and photoperiod on flowering induction in the halophyte Thellungiella halophila

Y Guo, D Wang, W Jia, J Song, J Yang… - Australian Journal of …, 2012 - CSIRO Publishing
Salt cress, Thellungiella halophila, is a late-flowering, halophytic plant that requires a
prolonged period of vernalisation to flower. This poorly defined vernalisation requirement …