Category: Flowering
Flowering Hormone Florigen Also Triggers Tuber Formation in Potatoes
Florigen = Tuberigen In an online report (ref 1 below) published this week in Nature, researchers in Spain and Japan have provided evidence that a protein similar to FT, currently regarded as the flowering signal florigen in plants, not only initiates flowering in potatoes, but also triggers tuber formation. “Seasonal…
Plants That “Remember” – Some Plants Can Record Environmental Experiences For Future Reference By Altering Their DNA
How Plants Receive the Signal to Flower
Can You Hear Me Now? A fundamental step in understanding how a signal works is identifying what specifically receives the signal. The signal in question here is the flower-inducing hormone in plants called florigen, which has recently been identified in several plant species, including rice. (Please see this recent post…
The Mystery of the Flowering Hormone Solved?
The Mystery About 150 million years ago dinosaurs were disappearing from the Earth, and flowering plants were appearing. Since that time, flowering plants (angiosperms) have flourished, rapidly diversifying and spreading into virtually every landscape on the planet. Charles Darwin referred to this abrupt origin and highly accelerated rate of diversification…
Death And Pollination
Some Pollinators Attracted By The Scent Of Death Floral odors, produced by the vast majority of flowering plants, play important roles in plant–pollinator interactions. A recent report of an orchid that attracts pollinators with the smell of carrion (see reference 1 below) reminded me of the infamous Voodoo lily, which…
Plants That Heat Themselves
Flowers: What You See Versus What the Bees See
Flowering Hormone Florigen Also Triggers Tuber Formation in Potatoes

Florigen = Tuberigen In an online report (ref 1 below) published this week in Nature, researchers in Spain and Japan have provided evidence that a protein similar to FT, currently regarded as the flowering signal florigen in plants, not only initiates flowering in potatoes, but also triggers tuber formation. “Seasonal…
Plants That “Remember” – Some Plants Can Record Environmental Experiences For Future Reference By Altering Their DNA
How Plants Receive the Signal to Flower

Can You Hear Me Now? A fundamental step in understanding how a signal works is identifying what specifically receives the signal. The signal in question here is the flower-inducing hormone in plants called florigen, which has recently been identified in several plant species, including rice. (Please see this recent post…
The Mystery of the Flowering Hormone Solved?

The Mystery About 150 million years ago dinosaurs were disappearing from the Earth, and flowering plants were appearing. Since that time, flowering plants (angiosperms) have flourished, rapidly diversifying and spreading into virtually every landscape on the planet. Charles Darwin referred to this abrupt origin and highly accelerated rate of diversification…
Death And Pollination

Some Pollinators Attracted By The Scent Of Death Floral odors, produced by the vast majority of flowering plants, play important roles in plant–pollinator interactions. A recent report of an orchid that attracts pollinators with the smell of carrion (see reference 1 below) reminded me of the infamous Voodoo lily, which…