EMBO Member
Caroline Dean
EMBO 1999 | Council 12–14 | Council 15–17 | WisC 22–
John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
Flowering and vernalization
Our research has focused on the timing of the transition to reproductive development in plants. The acceleration of flowering by prolonged cold is a classic epigenetic process called vernalization. The study of this and parallel genetic pathways has led us into the dissection of conserved chromatin silencing mechanisms involving non-coding RNAs.
Keywords
Flowering / epigenetic silencing / RNAi - chromatin silencing / RNA stability / adaptation