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Aug 2026
A mutant allele of the long-day floral activator NtFT5 is associated with the short-day-specific flowering of tobacco cultivar Maryland Mammoth
A two-nucleotide deletion shortens a key floral protein, weakening its ability to activate flowering and explaining why Maryland Mammoth tobacco, central to the discovery of photoperiodism over 100 years ago, only flowers under short days.
L. Grundmann, Marius M. Zimmermann, Christos Iordanidis et al.
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