Our recent work has focused on a mechanistic understanding of vernalization and on the pathways that determine a requirement for vernalization.
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Winter varieties do not flower until springtime because they require vernalization : exposure to low temperatures for a genetically determined length of time.
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Decrease in potential yields is likely to be caused by shortening of the growing period, decrease in water availability and poor vernalization.
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In winter annual " Arabidopsis ", vernalization of the meristem appears to confer competence to respond to floral inductive signals.
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Many plants grown in temperate climates require vernalization and must experience a period of low winter temperature to initiate or accelerate the flowering process.
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Due to plant flowering requiring the successful co-operation of several metabolic pathways, computer models that incorporate vernalization have also been made.
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Instead of performing controlled experiments, Lysenko claimed that vernalization increased wheat yields by 15 %, solely based upon questionnaires taken of farmers.
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Lysenko's vernalization practices yielded marginally greater food production on the farms, and he was quickly accepted as the hero of Soviet agriculture.
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The process of vernalization was falsely assumed to be a stably inherited genetic memory passed on to subsequent generations by the Russian geneticist Trofim Lysenko.
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Where winters are too warm for vernalization or exceed the hardiness of the crop ( which varies by species and variety ), farmers grow spring varieties.
