AUTHOR=Schiessl Sarah TITLE=Regulation and Subfunctionalization of Flowering Time Genes in the Allotetraploid Oil Crop Brassica napus JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science VOLUME=11 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.605155 DOI=10.3389/fpls.2020.605155 ISSN=1664-462X ABSTRACT=
Flowering is a vulnerable, but crucial phase in building crop yield. Proper timing of this period is therefore decisive in obtaining optimal yields. However, genetic regulation of flowering integrates many different environmental signals and is therefore extremely complex. This complexity increases in polyploid crops which carry two or more chromosome sets, like wheat, potato or rapeseed. Here, I summarize the current state of knowledge about flowering time gene copies in rapeseed (