Flowering time: Soybean adapts to the tropics

Curr Biol. 2022 Apr 25;32(8):R360-R362. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.03.030.

Abstract

Soybean plants - the source of tofu, as well as soybean milk and oil - flower quickly under short-day photoperiods typical of low latitudes. A new study characterises how natural variation in soybean SOC1 floral-promoting genes confers adaptation to different photoperiods.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Physiological
  • Flowers / genetics
  • Flowers / metabolism
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Plant*
  • Glycine max* / genetics
  • Glycine max* / metabolism
  • Plant Proteins / metabolism

Substances

  • Plant Proteins