overy. Using normal light exposure for plants, these scientists took over 5 years scanning proteins and over 3 million samples trying to find this molecule. Being that this gene is the typical "normal" trait, being the dominant one, there are other plants with mutant genes. These mutants did not have normal reaction of the FTIP1 gene, and under normal light conditions flowered much later than the typical flowering plants. When the researchers gave these plants the molecule, their flowering time went back to a normal range. The results from this article can help many people, especially farmers with their crops, to have better offspring from plants. Understanding plants and their flowers are of extreme importance to humans, not only because of pollinators, but because they are a very important foundation of our entire existence.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Scientists Discover What Makes Plants Flower
ScienceDaily has published an article that resulted in scientists discovering a protein that leads to a plant flowering. It has been known for some time that plants flower due to light exposure, also known as critical day length, but never the exact reason. Researchers from the University of Singapore have discovered a molecule known as FT-Interacting Protein 1 (FTIP1). The head of the research, Professor Yu Hao is responsible for this disc
overy. Using normal light exposure for plants, these scientists took over 5 years scanning proteins and over 3 million samples trying to find this molecule. Being that this gene is the typical "normal" trait, being the dominant one, there are other plants with mutant genes. These mutants did not have normal reaction of the FTIP1 gene, and under normal light conditions flowered much later than the typical flowering plants. When the researchers gave these plants the molecule, their flowering time went back to a normal range. The results from this article can help many people, especially farmers with their crops, to have better offspring from plants. Understanding plants and their flowers are of extreme importance to humans, not only because of pollinators, but because they are a very important foundation of our entire existence.
overy. Using normal light exposure for plants, these scientists took over 5 years scanning proteins and over 3 million samples trying to find this molecule. Being that this gene is the typical "normal" trait, being the dominant one, there are other plants with mutant genes. These mutants did not have normal reaction of the FTIP1 gene, and under normal light conditions flowered much later than the typical flowering plants. When the researchers gave these plants the molecule, their flowering time went back to a normal range. The results from this article can help many people, especially farmers with their crops, to have better offspring from plants. Understanding plants and their flowers are of extreme importance to humans, not only because of pollinators, but because they are a very important foundation of our entire existence.
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