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Effect of Day-length and Gibberellic Acid on the Flowering of Arabidopsis

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It has recently been discovered1 that a mixture of gibberellin A and gibberellic acid greatly accelerates the initiation of flowers in unvernalized Hyoscyamus niger L., a vernalizable long-day biennial plant. Even more recently, it has been found2 that this mixture of compounds will cause flower formation under short-day conditions in Bryophyllum crenatum Baker, a plant which requires long-day for internode elongation, short day for floral initiation, and long-day again for the development of functional flowers3.

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LANGRIDGE, J. Effect of Day-length and Gibberellic Acid on the Flowering of Arabidopsis . Nature 180, 36–37 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180036a0

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