Biennial plants require exposure to the cold of winter to overcome a block to flowering in the spring. The molecular role of FRIGIDA, a key component of the system that establishes the cold requirement in Arabidopsis, is to assemble a protein super-complex that promotes expression of a flowering repressor in the autumn.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Access options
Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals
Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription
$29.99 / 30 days
cancel any time
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 12 digital issues and online access to articles
$119.00 per year
only $9.92 per issue
Buy this article
- Purchase on Springer Link
- Instant access to full article PDF
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
References
Bouche, F., Woods, D. P. & Amasino, R. M. Plant Physiol. 173, 27–35 (2017).
Napp-Zinn, K. Z. Indukt Abstammungs Vererbungsl. 88, 253–285 (1957).
Koornneef, M., Blankestijn-de Vries, H., Hanhart, C., Soppe, W. & Peeters, T. Plant J. 6, 911–919 (1994).
Lee, I., Michaels, S. D., Masshardt, A. S. & Amasino, R. M. Plant J. 6, 903–909 (1994).
Michaels, S. D. & Amasino, R. M. Plant Cell 11, 949–956 (1999).
Sheldon, C. C. et al. Plant Cell 11, 445–458 (1999).
Johanson, U. et al. Science 290, 344–347 (2000).
Choi, K. et al. Plant Cell 23, 289–303 (2011).
Li, Z., Jiang D. & He, Y. Nat. Plants https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-018-0250-6 (2018).
Kim, D. H. & Sung, S. Dev. Cell 40, 302–312 (2017).
Amasino, R. Plant J. 61, 1001–1013 (2010).
Michaels, S. D., Bezerra, I. C. & Amasino, R. M. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 101, 3281–3285 (2004).
Schlappi, M. R. Plant Physiol. 142, 1728–1738 (2006).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Ethics declarations
Competing interests
The author declares no competing interests.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Amasino, R. A path to a biennial life history. Nature Plants 4, 752–753 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-018-0265-z
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-018-0265-z
This article is cited by
-
Current understanding of flowering pathways in plants: focusing on the vernalization pathway in Arabidopsis and several vegetable crop plants
Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology (2020)