New discovery about how flowering time of plants can be controlled

Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 14:01 in Biology & Nature

Researchers at Umea Plant Science Centre in Sweden discovered, in collaboration with the Syngenta company, a previously unknown gene in sugar beets that blocks flowering. The discovery makes it possible to control when sugar beets bloom...

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