Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plant hormone that promotes flowering.
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- noun botany A supposed
hormone that causesflowering inplants
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the 1930s, Cornell University plant scientist James Knott coined the term "florigen" for a mysterious signal that instructs flowers to begin growing at the tips of stems, called apical meristems.
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The Graduate School of Biological Sciences discovered florigen, which promotes flower formation and identified florigen as the same Hd3a gene that promotes the blooming of rice, and applied this substance to chrysanthemums in research that resulted in early blossoming.
WN.com - Articles related to Step up research output, technology minister tells scientists 2010
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A mutation in only one copy of the florigen gene causes the hybrid to produce more flowers in less time - the key to improved yield.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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This hybrid, the team found, produced greater yields because there was one normal copy and one mutated copy of only a single gene that produces a protein called florigen.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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If Scientists can produce the florigen substance, flowers can be caused to blossom regardless of whether a plant is a short day flowering plant or a long day flowering plant.
WN.com - Articles related to Step up research output, technology minister tells scientists 2010
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If Scientists can produce the florigen substance, flowers can be caused to blossom regardless of whether a plant is a short day flowering plant or a long day flowering plant.
WN.com - Articles related to Step up research output, technology minister tells scientists 2010
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SINGLE FLOWER TRUSS (SFT), which is the genetic originator of the flowering hormone florigen, increases yield by up to 60%.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Uri Krieger 2010
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This led to the next research topic of discovering how florigen participates within the plant to cause plant flowers to blossom.
WN.com - Articles related to Step up research output, technology minister tells scientists 2010
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The Graduate School of Biological Sciences discovered florigen, which promotes flower formation and identified florigen as the same Hd3a gene that promotes the blooming of rice, and applied this substance to chrysanthemums in research that resulted in early blossoming.
WN.com - Articles related to Step up research output, technology minister tells scientists 2010
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This led to the next research topic of discovering how florigen participates within the plant to cause plant flowers to blossom.
WN.com - Articles related to Step up research output, technology minister tells scientists 2010
fbharjo commented on the word florigen
florigen a blooming gene (hormone)
January 16, 2007