Two proteins that compete to give plants form (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania

Two proteins that compete to give plants form

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In a new insight into the mechanism of flower formation in plants, biologists from the University of Pennsylvania have found that two proteins, almost identical in form, compete for access to a transcription factor to influencing flowering.

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Wagner laboratory

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