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From: Chromatin marks and ambient temperature-dependent flowering strike up a novel liaison

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Mutations in writers, erasers, or readers of the H3K36me3 mark affect the acceleration of flowering time by increasing ambient temperature. In wild-type plants, flowering is accelerated upon a shift to warmer temperatures. Writer mutants that are impaired in deposition of the H3K36me3 mark do not show accelerated flowering in warm conditions, i.e., they flower with more or less the same number of leaves at 16 and 25 °C. In contrast, in an eraser mutant impaired in removal of the chromatin mark, acceleration of flowering by increasing temperature is greater than in wild-type plants. A reader mutant that does not recognize H3K36me3 will not react to elevated temperatures with acceleration of flowering. Acceleration of flowering time is reflective of a shorter vegetative growth period, reflected here by a decreased number of rosette leaves

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