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Acceleration of flowering of the long-day plant Arabidopsis by 8-azaadenine

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The incorporation of 8-azaadenine (2×10-5M) to the aseptic culture medium reduced the time required for developing macroscopically visible flower primordia and the number of leaves appearing before the first flower buds to about half under 8 hrs daily illuumination in both wild type and a late monogenic mutant. In the presence of equimolar amount of adenine the flowering was not accelerated by the analog.

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  1. Department of Field Crops, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., USA

    Y. Hirono & G. P. Rédei

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  1. Y. Hirono
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Supported by National Science Foundation and U.S. Public Health Service grants.

Contribution from the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station. Journal Series Number 3008. Approved by the Director.

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Hirono, Y., Rédei, G.P. Acceleration of flowering of the long-day plant Arabidopsis by 8-azaadenine. Planta 68, 88–93 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00385374

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