The Flowering Enigma
- 1 April 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 28 (4) , 265-269
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1307278
Abstract
Over the past 40 years there have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to isolate the floral stimulus or florigen. This paper questions the assumption that the floral stimulus is a single, organ-specific substance that has chemical properties similar to those of other plant hormones. It argues that flower-inhibitory substances play an important role in the control of flowering.This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
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