Towards precision breeding of flowering time in wheat using FLOWERING LOCUS C with background from the model Brachypodium KU Leuven
FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) and its paralogs in Arabidopsis are key regulators of cold dependent and temperature regulated flowering. Under the current threat of changing climates for cereal yield, they would be obvious candidates for crop breeding. However, these genes were until recently considered to be absent from cereal genomes and flowering time thought to be regulated completely differently. In contrast to ...