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Plants’ flowering precedes production of seeds, which are a basic component of human food and animal fodder. Thus for several decades systematic studies have been conducted to understand physiological and genetic mechanisms underlying this process (Bernier, 1988). One of pioneers in research on flowering was Chailakyhan, who already in 1936 proposed a scientific explanation of the phenomenon of flower induction. In his hypothesis he stipulated that, in response to stimuli that induced flowering, plants generated so-called florigen that moved from leaves to the shoot apex and stimulated morphogenesis of flowers. Attempts to isolate the substance that is able to induce flower formation have been made for more than 60 years (Colasanti and Sundaresan, 2000). Nevertheless, the chemical nature of florigen remains still unknown (Aukerman and Amasino, 1998; Ma, 1999).
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Tretyn, A., Głowacka, K., Kasprzak, K., Galoch, E., Kulikowska-Gulewska, H., Kopcewicz, J. (2003). Investigation on the Chemical Nature of Flower-Inducing Factor(S) in Short-Day Plant Pharbitis nil . In: Macháčková, I., Romanov, G.A. (eds) Phytohormones in Plant Biotechnology and Agriculture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2664-1_7
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