FLC

UniProt ID: Q9S7Q7
Organism: Arabidopsis thaliana
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Gene Description

FLC is an Arabidopsis MADS-box DNA-binding transcription factor that delays flowering by regulating genes in leaves and the shoot meristem. It binds regulatory DNA at floral integrators, including a CArG-containing region in the first intron of FT and the SOC1 promoter, and represses their expression. FLC acts in multimeric protein complexes, including complexes with other MADS proteins such as SVP. Although best characterized as a floral repressor, FLC also promotes expression of a subset of bound target genes; its transcriptional effect depends on the target and context. Prolonged cold and autonomous-pathway regulators reduce FLC expression, relieving its inhibition of floral transition. The chromatin silencing of the FLC locus is regulation of FLC expression, distinct from the DNA-binding activity of the FLC protein. Additional documented roles include juvenile-to-adult phase progression and temperature-dependent modulation of circadian period.

Existing Annotations Review

GO Term Evidence Action Reason
GO:0006357 regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II
IBA
GO_REF:0000033
ACCEPT
Summary: FLC directly regulates RNA polymerase II target genes through sequence-specific chromatin binding.
Reason: Native-target ChIP and expression experiments establish FLC occupancy at SOC1 promoter and FT intron regulatory DNA and regulation of their transcription (PMID:16623882; PMID:16600915). This supports the inherited or domain-based activity without assigning every MADS-family member the same targets or regulatory sign.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0009910 negative regulation of flower development
IBA
GO_REF:0000033
ACCEPT
Summary: FLC represses the floral transition.
Reason: Leaf and meristem expression experiments show that FLC suppresses systemic floral signaling and meristem competence. The PAINT assertion agrees with target-specific flowering repression, not merely with broad MADS-box family membership.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0000978 RNA polymerase II cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding
IBA
GO_REF:0000033
ACCEPT
Summary: FLC directly regulates RNA polymerase II target genes through sequence-specific chromatin binding.
Reason: Native-target ChIP and expression experiments establish FLC occupancy at SOC1 promoter and FT intron regulatory DNA and regulation of their transcription (PMID:16623882; PMID:16600915). This supports the inherited or domain-based activity without assigning every MADS-family member the same targets or regulatory sign.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0000981 DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific
IBA
GO_REF:0000033
ACCEPT
Summary: FLC directly regulates RNA polymerase II target genes through sequence-specific chromatin binding.
Reason: Native-target ChIP and expression experiments establish FLC occupancy at SOC1 promoter and FT intron regulatory DNA and regulation of their transcription (PMID:16623882; PMID:16600915). This supports the inherited or domain-based activity without assigning every MADS-family member the same targets or regulatory sign.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0000977 RNA polymerase II transcription regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding
IEA
GO_REF:0000002
ACCEPT
Summary: FLC directly regulates RNA polymerase II target genes through sequence-specific chromatin binding.
Reason: Native-target ChIP and expression experiments establish FLC occupancy at SOC1 promoter and FT intron regulatory DNA and regulation of their transcription (PMID:16623882; PMID:16600915). This supports the inherited or domain-based activity without assigning every MADS-family member the same targets or regulatory sign.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0003677 DNA binding
IEA
GO_REF:0000120
MODIFY
Summary: Refine general DNA binding to the established cis-regulatory sequence-specific activity.
Reason: FLC occupies CArG-containing cis-regulatory DNA at the FT first intron and SOC1 promoter in target-specific ChIP experiments (PMID:16623882). This localizes the otherwise general DNA-binding claim to sequence-specific regulatory-region binding at RNA polymerase II-transcribed genes, already represented by GO:0000978. The evidence identifies a transcriptional DNA-recognition role rather than nonspecific DNA association.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0003700 DNA-binding transcription factor activity
IEA
GO_REF:0000002
MODIFY
Summary: Refine transcription factor activity to regulation of RNA polymerase II targets.
Reason: The InterPro-derived DNA-binding transcription-factor claim agrees with FLC occupancy of FT/SOC1 regulatory regions and altered expression of these protein-coding targets (PMID:16623882; PMID:16600915). Specifying RNA polymerase II in GO:0000981 captures the demonstrated transcription system. This activity term does not require an exclusively repressive sign at every FLC target.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0005634 nucleus
IEA
GO_REF:0000120
ACCEPT
Summary: FLC acts on nuclear chromatin.
Reason: In vivo chromatin occupancy at FT and SOC1 and the curated nuclear localization support the nuclear site of FLC transcription factor activity.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
file:ARATH/FLC/FLC-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Nucleus
GO:0006355 regulation of DNA-templated transcription
IEA
GO_REF:0000002
MODIFY
Summary: Refine transcription regulation to RNA polymerase II transcription.
Reason: FLC regulates transcription of the RNA polymerase II targets FT and SOC1 through their regulatory chromatin, supported by target occupancy and expression experiments (PMID:16623882; PMID:16600915). GO:0006357 adds the warranted polymerase specificity to the broad transcription-regulation process. Keeping the replacement unsigned preserves the separately supported target-dependent positive as well as negative effects.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0009908 flower development
IEA
GO_REF:0000043
MODIFY
Summary: FLC negatively regulates floral development.
Reason: FLC represses floral integrator expression and limits the meristem response to the FT signal (PMID:16600915), establishing a negative regulatory role in floral development. Replace the keyword-derived process membership with the already-supported GO:0009910 regulatory role. This is a lateral process-to-regulation correction, not an is_a/part_of descendant refinement of flower development; it does not imply that FLC itself constructs floral tissues.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0009909 regulation of flower development
IEA
GO_REF:0000117
MODIFY
Summary: Refine unsigned flower regulation to the supported negative effect.
Reason: The original assertion already places FLC in regulation of flower development but leaves the direction unspecified. Repression of SOC1 and impairment of the meristem response to FT (PMID:16600915) support the negative sign represented by GO:0009910, also present in an experimental row. This specifies the direction of floral regulation, without claiming that every transcriptional target of FLC is repressed.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0030154 cell differentiation
IEA
GO_REF:0000043
MODIFY
Summary: Replace the generic differentiation mapping with FLC's demonstrated inhibition of floral development.
Reason: The keyword-derived developmental claim should be expressed as negative regulation of flower development, already present experimentally, rather than as an unspecified cell-differentiation program. FLC controls floral integrator transcription and meristem competence. This is a correction of developmental role/scope, not a claim that developmental regulation is false merely because it is broad.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0045944 positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II
IEA
GO_REF:0000002
ACCEPT
Summary: FLC can positively regulate a subset of its direct transcriptional targets.
Reason: The prior sign reversal wrongly treated a flowering repressor as an obligate transcriptional repressor. PMID:21464308 combines FLC chromatin binding with target expression in flc mutants: five tested bound genes decreased in the mutant, supporting positive as well as negative transcriptional regulation. The full primary study identifies SMZ and TOE3 among positively regulated targets. This does not reverse FLC repression of FT/SOC1 or make FLC a universal activator.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:21464308
Five genes showed decreased expression in the mutant, indicating that FLC binding can result in either transcriptional repression or activation.
GO:0046983 protein dimerization activity
IEA
GO_REF:0000002
ACCEPT
Summary: FLC forms multimeric MADS-protein assemblies.
Reason: The in vivo complex can contain multiple FLC polypeptides, and a specific FLC-SVP interaction is independently supported. The general dimerization activity accommodates these self/partner assembly modes without claiming a single obligatory stoichiometry.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
We have shown that FLC is a component of a multimeric protein complex in vivo and that more than one FLC polypeptides can be present in the complex.
PMID:19011118
Yeast two-hybrid analysis demonstrated an interaction between SVP and FLOWERING LOCUS C
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:19011118
Circadian clock proteins LHY and CCA1 regulate SVP protein a...
MODIFY
Summary: FLC forms a functional MADS-protein association with SVP.
Reason: The primary study directly assays the FLC-SVP pair by yeast two-hybrid and places both proteins in flowering repression. Refine uninformative protein binding to heterodimerization in this MADS-partner context; this does not assert an isolated native two-subunit stoichiometry for every FLC complex.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:19011118
Yeast two-hybrid analysis demonstrated an interaction between SVP and FLOWERING LOCUS C
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:28650476
CrY2H-seq: a massively multiplexed assay for deep-coverage i...
REMOVE
Summary: Remove uninformative bare binding while preserving the interaction-screen evidence.
Reason: PMID:28650476 is a multiplexed binary-interaction screen of Arabidopsis transcription factors. The measured association is not denied, but a generic binding row does not identify a distinct FLC-enabled activity. The screen alone does not make every detected partner a native obligate heterodimer; characterized FLC MADS assembly is represented separately.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:28650476
uncovering a network of 8,577 interactions among 1,453 transcription factors
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:38053494
FLZ13 interacts with FLC and ABI5 to negatively regulate flo...
REMOVE
Summary: FLZ13 association is real but bare protein binding is uninformative.
Reason: The primary study identifies direct FLZ13-FLC association and FLC-dependent repression of FT/SOC1. Preserve that regulatory interaction in the biological account; remove only the uninformative binding claim under policy, without assigning the regulator's activity to FLC.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:38053494
Biochemical analysis showed that FLZ13 directly interacts with FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC)
GO:0009266 response to temperature stimulus
IDA
PMID:25267112
Jumonji demethylases moderate precocious flowering at elevat...
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: FLC participates in the flowering response to elevated temperature.
Reason: PMID:25267112 shows that JMJ30/JMJ32 maintain FLC expression at warm temperatures and that the flc mutant has precocious flowering. FLC is a regulated output of this response, not itself a demonstrated temperature sensor or histone demethylase. Retain this precise environmental context outside the central DNA-binding activity.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:25267112
At elevated temperatures, the JMJ30 RNA and protein are stabilized, and FLC expression is maintained at high levels to prevent extreme precocious flowering.
GO:2000028 regulation of photoperiodism, flowering
IMP
PMID:25267112
Jumonji demethylases moderate precocious flowering at elevat...
ACCEPT
Summary: FLC controls competence for photoperiodic floral induction.
Reason: The warm-temperature genetics of PMID:25267112 concern FLC-mediated flowering repression. Independent leaf/meristem experiments in PMID:16600915 establish that FLC blocks the response to photoperiodic FT signaling. Retain regulation of photoperiodic flowering without claiming FLC perceives day length.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16600915
Vernalization, the response to winter temperatures, overcomes a block on photoperiodic floral induction.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0000976 transcription cis-regulatory region binding
IPI
PMID:30356219
Transcriptional regulation of nitrogen-associated metabolism...
MODIFY
Summary: Refine regulatory-region binding to the established sequence-specific cis-regulatory DNA-binding activity.
Reason: The nitrogen-network paper is cached as an abstract that does not resolve the individual FLC target pair; it is not rejected for failing to name FLC there. Independent target-specific ChIP establishes the same general molecular claim with greater specificity at FT/SOC1 CArG-containing regions. No uninspected nitrogen-metabolism target is asserted.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
GO:0032991 protein-containing complex
IDA
PMID:16623882
The Arabidopsis FLC protein interacts directly in vivo with ...
ACCEPT
Summary: FLC is a component of an experimentally detected protein complex.
Reason: PMID:16623882 reports an in vivo multimeric FLC-containing complex, including more than one FLC polypeptide. Retain the experimentally warranted complex membership without inventing its complete composition or asserting that all complexes are chromatin-silencing machinery.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
We have shown that FLC is a component of a multimeric protein complex in vivo and that more than one FLC polypeptides can be present in the complex.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:30946745
Floral regulators FLC and SOC1 directly regulate expression ...
REMOVE
Summary: Retain the FLC/SVP chromatin-regulatory mechanism, but remove bare protein binding.
Reason: PMID:30946745 establishes FLC/SVP-dependent repression and chromatin changes at TFS1. Generic protein binding adds no defined FLC-enabled molecular activity beyond its separately supported transcription-factor and MADS-association functions. Removal is the bare-binding policy exception, not a rejection of the reported interactions.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:30946745
FLC and SVP repress TFS1 transcription leading to deposition of trimethylation of Iysine 27 of histone 3 (H3K27me3) by the Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 at the TFS1 locus.
GO:0003700 DNA-binding transcription factor activity
IDA
PMID:16600915
The transcription factor FLC confers a flowering response to...
MODIFY
Summary: Specify FLC's RNA polymerase II DNA-binding transcription factor activity.
Reason: The original experimental, comparative or literature assertion agrees with direct FLC target occupancy and transcriptional effects. Refine to the RNA polymerase II-specific activity already present; no inference that an abstract-only family paper omitted or misidentified FLC is made.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0003700 DNA-binding transcription factor activity
ISS
PMID:12837945
Molecular and phylogenetic analyses of the complete MADS-box...
MODIFY
Summary: Specify FLC's RNA polymerase II DNA-binding transcription factor activity.
Reason: The original experimental, comparative or literature assertion agrees with direct FLC target occupancy and transcriptional effects. Refine to the RNA polymerase II-specific activity already present; no inference that an abstract-only family paper omitted or misidentified FLC is made.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0009266 response to temperature stimulus
IMP
PMID:16473970
FLOWERING LOCUS C mediates natural variation in the high-tem...
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: FLC contributes to temperature-dependent clock behavior.
Reason: Near-isogenic lines and induced alleles establish an FLC-dependent increase in circadian period at 27 degrees C. This is a supported temperature-response role distinct from claiming direct temperature sensing or making circadian control its principal function.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16473970
FLC lengthened the circadian period specifically at 27 degrees C, contributing to temperature compensation of the circadian clock.
GO:0009910 negative regulation of flower development
IMP
PMID:12114624
Multiple roles of Arabidopsis VRN1 in vernalization and flow...
ACCEPT
Summary: FLC is a genetically established floral repressor.
Reason: The VRN1 study places FLC as the major repressed floral inhibitor; independent FLC tissue-expression and target-binding studies directly establish the inhibitory function. Its experimental assertion is not rejected because the original abstract emphasizes the upstream regulator.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:12114624
the major target of the vernalization pathway, the floral repressor FLC.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0010048 vernalization response
IEP
PMID:15734903
Differential regulation of FLOWERING LOCUS C expression by v...
ACCEPT
Summary: Downregulation of FLC links prolonged cold to competence to flower.
Reason: The comparative study distinguishes cabbage and Arabidopsis vernalization responses rather than implying identical timing across species. Native Arabidopsis FLC transcript and protein decline with cold, quantitatively relating FLC levels to flowering response (PMID:10716723). Retain the response claim without assigning FLC the catalytic machinery that silences its own locus.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:10716723
The level of FLC determines the extent of the vernalization response in the promotion of flowering
GO:0042752 regulation of circadian rhythm
IMP
PMID:16473970
FLOWERING LOCUS C mediates natural variation in the high-tem...
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: FLC modulates circadian period in a temperature-dependent context.
Reason: The primary allele and mutant experiments support a genuine clock phenotype. This is a secondary regulatory role, not evidence that FLC is an obligatory central oscillator component or directly modifies clock proteins.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16473970
FLC lengthened the circadian period specifically at 27 degrees C, contributing to temperature compensation of the circadian clock.
GO:0003700 DNA-binding transcription factor activity
TAS
PMID:10716723
The molecular basis of vernalization: the central role of FL...
MODIFY
Summary: Specify FLC's RNA polymerase II DNA-binding transcription factor activity.
Reason: The original experimental, comparative or literature assertion agrees with direct FLC target occupancy and transcriptional effects. Refine to the RNA polymerase II-specific activity already present; no inference that an abstract-only family paper omitted or misidentified FLC is made.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
GO:0003700 DNA-binding transcription factor activity
ISS
PMID:11118137
Arabidopsis transcription factors: genome-wide comparative a...
MODIFY
Summary: Specify FLC's RNA polymerase II DNA-binding transcription factor activity.
Reason: The original experimental, comparative or literature assertion agrees with direct FLC target occupancy and transcriptional effects. Refine to the RNA polymerase II-specific activity already present; no inference that an abstract-only family paper omitted or misidentified FLC is made.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:16623882
Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
PMID:16600915
FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.

Core Functions

Nuclear MADS-box transcription factor that binds floral-regulatory cis elements and delays floral transition, particularly through repression of FT and SOC1. FLC can also activate a subset of bound targets, so transcriptional sign is target-dependent. Multimeric MADS-protein association supports this regulatory activity.

Supporting Evidence:
  • PMID:16623882
    Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we have shown that FLC binds to a region of the first intron of FT that contains a putative CArG box, and have confirmed that FLC binds to a CArG box in the promoter of the SOC1 gene.
  • PMID:16600915
    FLC expression in the meristem impairs response to the FT signal by directly repressing expression of the SOC1 MADS-box transcription factor and preventing up-regulation of the bZIP transcription factor FD.
  • PMID:21464308
    Five genes showed decreased expression in the mutant, indicating that FLC binding can result in either transcriptional repression or activation.
  • PMID:16623882
    We have shown that FLC is a component of a multimeric protein complex in vivo and that more than one FLC polypeptides can be present in the complex.

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Suggested Questions for Experts

Q: Which native FLC partner combinations determine whether a bound target is activated or repressed in each tissue?

Q: How do the composition and stoichiometry of native FLC complexes change during floral transition and temperature responses?

Suggested Experiments

Experiment: Combine native-tag FLC complex purification, partner perturbation, chromatin occupancy and nascent transcription in matched leaf and meristem samples before and after floral induction.

Hypothesis: FLC partner composition determines target-specific transcriptional sign.

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