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. 1994 Jan;6(1):75–83. doi: 10.1105/tpc.6.1.75

Isolation of LUMINIDEPENDENS: a gene involved in the control of flowering time in Arabidopsis.

I Lee 1, M J Aukerman 1, S L Gore 1, K N Lohman 1, S D Michaels 1, L M Weaver 1, M C John 1, K A Feldmann 1, R M Amasino 1
PMCID: PMC160417  PMID: 7907507

Abstract

Plants have evolved the ability to regulate flowering in response to environmental signals such as temperature and photoperiod. The physiology and genetics of floral induction have been studied extensively, but the molecular mechanisms that underlie this process are poorly understood. To study this process, we isolated a gene, LUMINIDEPENDENS (LD), that is involved in the timing of flowering in Arabidopsis. Mutations in this gene render Arabidopsis late flowering and appear to affect light perception. The late-flowering phenotype of the ld mutation was partially suppressed by vernalization. Genomic and cDNA clones of the LD gene were characterized. The predicted amino acid sequence of the LD protein contains 953 residues and includes two putative bipartite nuclear localization signals and a glutamine-rich region.

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