.... We demonstrate that the delay in vegetative phase change in gct and cct is largely due to overexpression of miR156, and that the delay in flowering is due in part to upregulation of FLC . Thus, GCT and CCT coordinate vegetative and floral transitions by repressing the repressors miR156 and FLC . Our...

... FLC ( FRI;FLC ) with plants mutant for this gene ( FRI;flc-3 ) under both photoinductive (long day, LD and night interruption, NI) and non-photoinductive (short day, SD) conditions. We show that the onset of abaxial trichome production is insensitive to floral induction, but the distribution...

... of these double mutants exhibited elevated expression of the potent floral repressor FLOWERING LOCUS C ( FLC ). This molecular response could be efficiently suppressed by vernalization, leading to accelerated flowering. Additionally, specific reduction of the expression of FLC via RNA interference accelerated...

... petals and early flowering by reduction in expression of FLOWERING LOCUS C ( FLC ), a strong floral repressor. Chromatin immunoprecipitation assays showed that AtSWC6 and SUF3 bind to the proximal region of the FLC promoter, and protoplast transfection assays showed that AtSWC6 colocalizes with SUF3...