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GrainGenes Reference Report: SCI-303-1640

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Reference	SCI-303-1640
Title	The wheat VRN2 gene is a flowering repressor down-regulated by vernalization
Journal	Science
Year	2004
Volume	303
Pages	1640-1644
Author	[ Hide all but 1 of 9 ] Yan L Loukoianov A Blechl A Tranquilli G Ramakrishna W SanMiguel P Bennetzen JL Echenique V Dubcovsky J
Abstract	Plants with a winter growth habit flower earlier when exposed for several weeks to cold temperatures, a process called vernalization. We report here the positional cloning of the wheat vernalization gene VRN2, a dominant repressor of flowering that is down-regulated by vernalization. Loss of function of VRN2, whether by natural mutations or deletions, resulted in spring lines, which do not require vernalization to flower. Reduction of the RNA level of VRN2 by RNA interference accelerated the flowering time of transgenic winter-wheat plants by more than a month
External Databases	Pubmed: 15016992 DOI: 10.1126/science.1094305
Allele	Vrn-A2b (Triticum) Vrn-A2c (Triticum)
Gene	Vrn2 (Triticum)
Gene Class	Response to vernalization (Triticum)
Keyword	cloning [ Show all 17 ]

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