GENETIC CONTROL OF FLOWERING

摘要

PCT No. PCT/GB96/01332 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 1, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 1, 1997 PCT Filed Jun. 3, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/38560 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 5, 1996FCA genes of Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica napus are provided, enabling flowering characteristics, particularly timing of flowering, to be influenced in transgenic plants. Timing of flowering may be delayed or hastened using sense and antisense expression, also various mutants and alleles, including alternatively spliced forms.