期刊论文

He, Yuehui

英文

Nature Genetics

1061-4036

2016

48

12

1527-1534

10.1038/ng.3712

We thank M. Suzuki (University of Florida) for kindly providing val1 and val2 seeds and the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (Belgium) for providing pBGW vector. This work was supported in part by funding from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (grant 2016YFA0503200 to J.D.).

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Some plants acquire competence to flower in spring after experiencing a seasonal temperature drop - winter cold, in a process termed vernalization. In Arabidopsis thaliana, prolonged exposure to cold induces epigenetic silencing of the potent floral repressor locus FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) by Polycomb group (PcG) proteins, and this silencing is stably maintained in subsequent growth and development upon return to warm temperatures. Here we show that a cis-regulatory DNA element in the nucleation region for PcG silencing at FLC and two homologous...