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Flowering time: Have florigen, will travel

Florigen plant hormone is made in the leaf and then travels to the shoot apical meristem to trigger flowering. The phloem-mobile metal-binding protein NaKR1 physically interacts with florigen and mediates its long-distance transport through the sieve element.

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Figure 1: Mediation of long-distance transport of FT protein in the sieve element by NaKR1.

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Ahn, J. Flowering time: Have florigen, will travel. Nature Plants 2, 16081 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.81

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