NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES AND PEPTIDES/ PROTEINS OF THE FT FAMILY PROVIDING FLOWER REPRESSING PROPERTIES IN TOBACCO AND TRANSGENIC PLANTS TRANSFORMED THEREWITH

摘要

The present invention is directed to nucleic acid sequences coding for a protein which (1) under a respective promoter is able to suppress or repress or delay flowering of a plant and (2) includes the motive NAPDIIDS or in preferred cases VNAPDIIDS with the exception of the nucleic acid of the gene StSP5G or a part thereof. Preferably the nucleic acid sequence belongs phylogenetically to the FT clade of the PEBP gene family wherein the motive (V)NAPDIIDS is in place of the (V)YAPGW motive of the flowering promoting proteins AtFT and BvFT2. The invention is further directed to peptides or proteins obtainable by expression of the nucleic acid of any of the preceding claims vectors comprising a nucleic acid sequence as defined above and to plants parts of plants or seed of plants the plants comprising such a nucleic acid sequence.