Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

CRY2 interacts with CIS1 to regulate thermosensory flowering via FLM alternative splicing

  • Zhiwei Zhao,
  • Craig Dent,
  • Huafeng Liang,
  • Junqing Lv,
  • Guandong Shang,
  • Yawen Liu,
  • Fan Feng,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Junhong Pang,
  • Xu Li,
  • Libang Ma,
  • Bing Li,
  • Sridevi Sureshkumar,
  • Jia-Wei Wang,
  • Sureshkumar Balasubramanian,
  • Hongtao Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34886-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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CRY2 mediates photoperiod-responsive floral initiation in Arabidopsis. Here the authors show that CRY2 also regulates temperature sensitive flowering and that CRY2 can interact with and regulate the splicing factor CIS1 to affect alternative splicing of transcripts that regulate flowering.