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Control of flowering and storage organ formation in potato by FLOWERING LOCUS T

Publicated to: Nature. 478 (7367): 119-U132 - 2011-10-06 478(7367), DOI: 10.1038/nature10431

Authors:

Navarro, Cristina; Abelenda, Jose A.; Cruz-Oro, Eduard; Cuellar, Carlos A.; Tamaki, Shojiro; Silva, Javier; Shimamoto, Ko; Prat, Salome;
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2 ;‎ Nara Inst Sci & Technol, Plant Mol Genet Lab, Ikoma 6300101, Japan - Author
1 ;‎ CSIC, Ctr Nacl Biotecnol, Dept Genet Mol Plantas, Madrid 28049, Spain - Author

Abstract

Seasonal fluctuations in day length regulate important aspects of plant development such as the flowering transition or, in potato (Solanum tuberosum), the formation of tubers. Day length is sensed by the leaves, which produce a mobile signal transported to the shoot apex or underground stems to induce a flowering transition or, respectively, a tuberization transition. Work in Arabidopsis, tomato and rice (Oryza sativa) identified the mobile FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) protein as a main component of the long-range 'florigen', or flowering hormone, signal(1-3). Here we show that expression of the Hd3a gene, the FT orthologue in rice, induces strict short-day potato types(4) to tuberize in long days. Tuber induction is graft transmissible and the Hd3a-GFP protein is detected in the stolons of grafted plants, transport of the fusion protein thus correlating with tuber formation. We provide evidence showing that the potato floral and tuberization transitions are controlled by two different FT-like paralogues (StSP3D and StSP6A) that respond to independent environmental cues, and show that an autorelay mechanism involving CONSTANS modulates expression of the tuberization-control StSP6A gene.
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Keywords

ArabidopsisFloral inductionFt proteinPhotoperiodic controlRegulate growthRiceSignalsTime gene constansTomatoTuber formation

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Nature due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2011, it was in position 1/56, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Multidisciplinary Sciences.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-12-20:

  • WoS: 339
  • Scopus: 456
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-20:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 644.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 643 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 25.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 2 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 6 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 1 (Altmetric).
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Japan.

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Awards linked to the item

We thank J. Paz-Ares, G. Bryan and C. Bachem for their comments on the manuscript. We also thank S. Yokoi for his help in this work. This research was supported by grants from the Spanish MCyT and the EU-SOL European Union Integrated Project. Support by the JSPS and CSIC under the Japan-Spain research cooperative programme and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas of the MEXT of Japan are also acknowledged. C.N. was recipient of an I3P postdoctoral contract from the CSIC.
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