ROS regulated reversible protein phase separation synchronizes plant flowering
February 25th, 2021 by Xiaozhen Huang
Nature Chemical Biology, Published online: 25 February 2021; doi:10.1038/s41589-021-00739-0
Plants utilize naturally produced ROS in shoot apical stem cells as a developmental signal to trigger phase separation of TMF. The resulting transcriptional condensates repress expression of the floral identity gene to precisely time flowering.