supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (90917014 to H.-Q.Y.);the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2006AA10A102);the National Special Grant for Transgenic Crops (2009ZX08009-081B to H.-Q.Y.);the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(10XD1402300 to H.-Q.Y.);the Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project(B209)
Floral initiation is a major step in the life cycle of plants, which is influenced by photoperiod, temperature, and phytohormones, such as gibberellins (GAs). It is known that GAs promote floral initiation under sho...
Acknowledgments We are grateful to Qiao-quan Liu for technical assistance. We also thank Lin-sheng An for planting the transgenic plants. This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2006AA 10A 102 and No. 2005CB 120803) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30671112).
We used the promoter trap technique to identify a rice plant, named 107^#, in which the β-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene was expressed specifically in the endosperm. A single copy of the T-DNA was inserted into ...