Claim · model-written summary
Ectopic FT expression uncoupled cotton flowering from photoperiodic regulation.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutume0 - Treatment
- FT is ectopically expressed from a viral vectore0
- Gene
- FTe0
- Outcome
- flowering from photoperiodic regulatione0
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Verbatim
e0“when FT is ectopically expressed from a viral vector in cotton, a process referred to as virus induced flowering (VIF), it uncouples flowering from photoperiodic regulation”
Title
Overexpression ofFTin cotton affects architecture but not floral organogenesis
Roisin C. McGarry; Sarah Prewitt; Brian G. Ayre Plant Signaling & Behavior 2013. doi:10.4161/psb.23602
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Intervention effect Ectopic FT expression promoted determinate aerial-organ growth.
- Observation The accelerated switch affected floral buds and sympodial growth.
- Observation Floral organogenesis was not disrupted.