FLOWERING LOCUS C Isolation and Characterization: Two Articles That Opened Many Doors[OPEN]

Abstract

These two classic articles from The Plant Cell archive ( [ Michaels and Amasino, 1999 ][1] ; [ Sheldon et al., 1999 ][2] ) were tremendously satisfying in providing a first glimpse of the mechanism by which seasonal flowering of Arabidopsis ( Arabidopsis thaliana ) is induced by winter cold (