Genetics

Takeshi Izawa and colleagues report that the rice florigen gene Hd3a, which triggers photoperiodic flowering, is toggled by a 30-minute change in day length. They report that Hd3a transcription is ... [visit website]

Guillaume Bourque and colleagues report genome-wide binding profiles of the OCT4, NANOG and CTCF proteins in human ES cells as determined by ChIP-sequencing. They find that the binding profiles of ... [visit website]

George Daley and colleagues show that transgenic mice expressing elevated levels of Lin28a have increased body size and delayed onset of puberty. These findings support human association studies implicating the ... [visit website]