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Nature Genetics 38, 711–715 (1 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/ng1818

The PHYTOCHROME C photoreceptor gene mediates natural variation in flowering and growth responses of Arabidopsis thaliana

Sureshkumar Balasubramanian , Sridevi Sureshkumar , Mitesh Agrawal , Todd P Michael , Carrie Wessinger , Julin N Maloof , Richard Clark , Norman Warthmann , Joanne Chory & Detlef Weigel

Light has an important role in modulating seedling growth and flowering time. We show that allelic variation at the PHYTOCHROME C (PHYC) photoreceptor locus affects both traits in natural populations of A.