A leaf-expressed TERMINAL FLOWER1 ortholog from coffee with alternate splice forms alters flowering time and inflorescence branching in Arabidopsis
Carlos Henrique Cardon, Victoria Lesy, Catherine Fust, Thales Henrique Cherubino Ribeiro, Owen Hebb, Raphael Ricon de Oliveira, Mark A.A. Minow, Gabriel de Campos Rume, Antônio Chalfun-Júnior, Joseph Colasanti
The paper identifies a coffee TFL1 ortholog with alternate splicing that represses flowering in Arabidopsis, suggesting a role in asynchronous flowering in coffee.
Plants · Jul 14, 2026Peer-reviewedPlant Biology