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    A pair of floral regulators sets critical day length for Hd3a florigen expression in rice

    Takeshi Izawa and colleagues report that the rice florigen gene Hd3a, which triggers photoperiodic flowering, is toggled by a 30-minute change in day length. They report that Hd3a transcription is controlled by t...

    Hironori Itoh, Yasunori Nonoue, Masahiro Yano, Takeshi Izawa in Nature Genetics (2010)

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    Genetic manipulation of gibberellin metabolism in transgenic rice

    The 'green revolution' was fueled by the introduction of the semi-dwarf trait into cereal crop cultivars. The semi-dwarf cultivars—which respond abnormally to the plant growth hormone gibberellin (GA)—are more...

    Tomoaki Sakamoto, Yoichi Morinaka, Kanako Ishiyama in Nature Biotechnology (2003)