FLOWERING LOCUS TFT AND GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS HAVING MODULATED FLOWER DEVELOPMENT

摘要

The present invention provides a polypeptide encoded by the FT to control the blooming at the gene and plants named as "FT" for flowering locus T. FT is useful in the methods of the invention for producing a transgenic plant characterized by having a phenotype (e. G., Early or delayed flowering) which flowering is controlled. Such a plant a nucleic acid encoding a functional peptide FT; One or more antisense nucleic acid of the FT; FT structural gene encoding the wild-type polypeptide; Or it caused by a structural gene that encodes a dominant negative polypeptide by genetically modified can be controlled in a flowering plant.