Suspects appearing to pledge allegiance to Isis arrested in cities of Eupen and La Calamine The office of Belgium’s federal prosecutor says two underage people suspected of plotting what has been labelled a terror attack have been arrested the suspects were arrested on 31 October after raids in the cities of Eupen and La Calamine The prosecutor’s office said they were suspected of “attempted terrorist assassination and participation in a terrorist organisation.” The two minors have been placed in a youth protection centre the suspects had recorded a video of allegiance to Islamic State and were suspected of planning a stabbing attack against police officers The arrests were made before Monday’s attack in Vienna, where a man who had previously tried to join Isis went on a rampage in the Austrian capital and fatally shot four people before being killed by police Four years ago, coordinated attacks killed 32 people and injured hundreds more at Brussels’ Zaventem airport and on the city’s metro system. Belgian authorities have since thwarted several terror plots. Belgium (Reuters) - A small town in Belgium that spent a century living outside the map of Europe's great power system celebrates the 200th anniversary of the quirky autonomy it secured in the wake of the Napoleonic wars.Neutral Moresnet was the name given to the sliver of land that was home to a key deposit of the zinc ore calamine It inspired tourists and anarchists - and utopian enthusiasts for the world language Esperanto - before succumbing to another round of the European bloodshed that gave it birth.Granted independence in 1816 to keep a peace between Dutch and Prussians following the defeat of its former French imperial masters at Waterloo it was swept away 98 years later by World War One in the small German-speaking region close to Aachen in Germany."This is a unique history It has historical significance and that's a good reason to celebrate it," Kelmis mayor Louis Goebbels told Reuters at the start of a weekend of festivities for the bicentenary.These included parades by Napoleonic military reenactors and lectures on the prosperity and freedoms enjoyed by defenceless tiny Moresnet amid a Europe held together ever more shakily by the balance of powers forged at the Congress of Vienna.Claimed by war-weary Prussians and Dutch 1816 divided the district of Moresnet between Berlin and Amsterdam with a narrow triangular strip containing the mine itself under shared control as Neutral Moresnet it took over the Dutch interests there.Run by the Vieille Montagne company which boomed by cladding the roofs of Paris and other cities with rain-proof zinc territory soared from 256 in 1816 to nearly 5,000 by the start of World War One in 1914.PEACEFUL "ANARCHY"Mayor Goebbels relates how his forefathers came from Germany to the "neutral zone" aware of a celebrity status that came from running its own state offering a host of welfare services and sponsoring social clubs.For some there was also the draw that residents of what is known in French as La Calamine could avoid military service in Prussia or Belgium drove a thriving liquor trade -- and much smuggling.Law was largely dispensed locally with a light touch.It is cited as a model by libertarians who liken it to self-governing communities of the Wild West: "Moresnet demonstrated the possibilities that statelessness holds out for peace "A Century of Anarchy".The limits of Moresnet's independence were obvious.When in 1886 the company doctor hit on the idea of the territory's own postal service the twin supervisory powers in Berlin and Brussels joined forces to stop him -- leaving just a few rare specimens.As the mine declined Molly sought to make Neutral Moresnet a centre for Esperanto an artificial "world language" intended to promote peace Renaming the neutral zone "Amikejo" -- Esperanto for a place of friendship -- Molly even commissioned its own national anthem in 1908.But six years later the breakdown of the "armed peace" that Europe had agreed at the Congress of Vienna a century earlier wiped Neutral Moresnet off the map German troops swept it up and annexed it in their 1914 conquest of Belgium it was handed wholesale to Belgium along with other German-speaking borderlands as part of Berlin's reparations.A century and another devastating European war later though dozens of stone border markers still dot the fields and woods people in Kelmis find it hard to imagine their forebears carving out a space between great-power frontiers bristling with guns."After two world wars people here don't generally want to talk about the past," said Sylvie Fabeck Her grandmother was the last person born in "free" Moresnet "Are a chance to show what Neutral Moresnet was."It now lies in the 4-million-strong Meuse-Rhine Euroregion an administrative area that embraces French-speaking Liege German-speaking Eupen and Flemish Hasselt in Belgium Charlemagne's 8th-century capital at Aachen in Germany and Maastricht the Dutch home of the European Union treaty.Despite new checks on some of the EU's unpoliced borders since last year's migration crisis the 11,000 multilingual people of Kelmis can now work easily in all three countries As museum curator Fabeck puts it: "This is what is now Europe."Editing by Stephen Powell Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab , opens new tab Browse an unrivalled portfolio of real-time and historical market data and insights from worldwide sources and experts. , opens new tabScreen for heightened risk individual and entities globally to help uncover hidden risks in business relationships and human networks. © 2025 Reuters. All rights reserved Volume 5 - 2014 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2014.00213 The metal hyperaccumulator Noccaea caerulescens is an established model to study the adaptation of plants to metalliferous soils Various comparators have been used in these studies The choice of suitable comparators is important and depends on the hypothesis to be tested and methods to be used In high-throughput analyses such as microarray caerulescens has been compared to non-tolerant non-accumulator plants like Arabidopsis thaliana or Thlaspi arvense rather than to the related hypertolerant or hyperaccumulator plants caerulescens populations with considerable variation in their capacity to accumulate and tolerate metals Whole transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) is revealing interesting variation in their gene expression profiles Combining physiological characteristics of N caerulescens accessions with their RNA-Seq has a great potential to provide detailed insight into the underlying molecular mechanisms In this review we will critically consider comparative transcriptome analyses carried out to explore metal hyperaccumulation and hypertolerance of N and demonstrate the potential of RNA-Seq analysis as a tool in evolutionary genomics a number of plants with differences in hyperaccumulation and hypertolerance have been compared This includes cross- and intra-species comparisons and comparisons between accumulators and non-accumulators The choice of comparators is important and depends on the hypothesis to be tested and methodology used While deep sequencing techniques have the potential to greatly increase our understanding about the mechanisms of plant metal-related traits and their evolution during the adaptation to different environments a careful consideration of appropriate comparators becomes increasingly important A major challenge is to find the genes of interest among those differentially expressed between the plants In this review we consider the choice of comparators in exploring metal hyperaccumulation and hypertolerance characteristics of N and discuss the pros and cons of the approaches in relation to RNA-Seq analysis caerulescens populations with contrasting metal tolerance or hyperaccumulation capacities is a superior tool to analyze the evolutionary genomics of plant adaptation strategies to metalliferous soils The non-accumulator, non-tolerant Arabidopsis thaliana, a model plant from the Brassicaceae family, is considered as a good comparator to N. caerulescens because of considerable sequence similarity: 87-88% identity in intergenic transcribed spacer regions (Peer et al., 2003), and ca. 88.5% nucleotide identity within transcribed regions (Rigola et al., 2006) thaliana are superior compared to any other plant One of the first efforts to characterize the N. caerulescens transcriptome was made by Rigola et al. (2006), comparing ESTs (expressed sequence tags) of A. thaliana and N. caerulescens accession La Calamine, a Zn-tolerant Zn hyperaccumulator (Assunção et al., 2003c) the complex comparison thus included Zn hyperaccumulator/non-accumulator pair Zn tolerant/non-tolerant pair as well as different Zn concentrations The assembled partial cDNA sequences (unigenes) represented only 13% of the root and shoot transcriptomes Several unigenes showed similarity to genes for which a role in metal hyperaccumulation tolerance or homeostasis was previously implicated Three percent of the unigenes corresponded to A thaliana orthologues not known to be expressed An effort was made to estimate transcriptional activity of highly expressed genes from the frequency of their detection but EST analysis provides limited information about transcript abundances Zn-dependence of the expression would not be expected for these genes which implied either species-specific differences in the mechanisms of metal hyperaccumulation or methodological differences halleri at specific tissue- or even single cell level might help determining the specific mechanisms responsible for metal accumulation (e.g. While cross-species microarray analyses have provided valuable information about N caerulescens and its responses to environment compared to the related non-accumulators A which may lead to a conclusion that there is a link between metal hyperaccumulation and a specific gene expression when in fact there is not All microarray-based methods have limitations in terms of sensitivity and dynamic range but a major challenge in cross-species comparisons is the sequence divergence of orthologous genes and thus the probe design in estimating relative transcript abundances and to the lack of identification of novel transcripts FIGURE 1. Predicted secondary structure of A. thaliana IRT1 metal transporter. The amino acid sequence was retrieved from TAIR10 database. The secondary structure of the protein was predicted using HMMTOP 2.0 (Tusnády and Simon, 1998, 2001). The diagram was generated with TEXtopo package (Beitz, 2000) Amino acids known to be important for the function of IRT1 are labeled with stars and arrows caerulescens amino acid sequences were derived from Illumina RNA-Seq analysis of three accessions: Lellingen some of the highly expressed pathways probably contribute to these traits The data are based on SOLiD RNA-Seq analysis of three biological replicates of three N The read counts were normalized by the size of the libraries and the length of the genes assuming an equal length for orthologous genes in A and the most highly expressed genes (expression value > 1000) were subjected to a more detailed analysis The genes were manually linked to metabolic pathways in KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) and Ni concentrations among eighteen metallicolous caerulescens populations in response to different cultivation conditions These examples demonstrate highly contrasting metal tolerance and accumulation characteristics among N and points to their potential for comparative RNA-Seq combined with association analyses Co-segregation, genetic linkage mapping and quantitative trait loci (QTL) analyses make use of crosses between genotypes with contrasting phenotypes. Several crosses have been made between N. caerulescens accessions (Assunção et al., 2003a, 2006; Deniau et al., 2006; Richau and Schat, 2009) expression QTL (eQTL) has not been applied so far to address metal hyperaccumulation or tolerance Candidate gene identification can be further improved by applying RNA-Seq to recombinant inbred lines selected for particular tolerance or accumulation capacities or Having populations with a wide range of metal hyperaccumulation and hypertolerance capacities caerulescens shows a great potential to serve as an excellent model in plant evolutionary genomics a significant leap forward is expected in the understanding of the metabolic adaptation of this plant to different metal environments RNA-Seq still remains a screening method that provides candidate genes a more detailed analysis being needed to prove the true significance of the findings The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships 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Unfortunately because the cause of milia isn't necessarily as clear as for an acne breakout using these products doesn't guarantee you won't get milia in the future there is no true way to permanently prevent them from forming," adds Dr there's a whole host of ways to kick 'em to the curb "These topicals help minimize their occurrence you can try to use a comedone extractor after first softening the bump with a warm-water compress the best plan of action for milia removal is to visit a dermatologist You could also fail to remove the lesion and even develop an infection."  A dermatologist can de-roof the milia with a sterile needle or scalpel — or with a laser treatment is done with an electrically heated needle Check out Hailey Bieber's 10 beauty commandments: Volume 11 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.582577 This article is part of the Research TopicVernalization and Flowering Time: Celebrating 20 Years of FLCView all 15 articles The appropriate timing of flowering is crucial for plant reproductive success Studies of the molecular mechanism of flower induction in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana showed long days and vernalization as major environmental promotive factors Noccaea caerulescens has an obligate vernalization requirement that has not been studied at the molecular genetics level we characterize the vernalization requirement and response of four geographically diverse biennial/perennial N Differences in vernalization responsiveness among accessions suggest that natural variation for this trait exists within N Mutants which fully abolish the vernalization requirement were identified and were shown to contain mutations in the FLOWERING LOCUS C (NcFLC) and SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (NcSVP) genes the non-vernalization requiring flc-1 mutant reverts from flowering to vegetative growth which is accompanied with a reduced expression of LFY and AP1 This suggested there is “crosstalk” between vernalization and ambient temperature which might be a strategy to cope with fluctuations in temperature or adopt a more perennial flowering attitude and thus facilitate a flexible evolutionary response to the changing environment across the species range but the genetic basis and molecular mechanisms of flowering time regulation has not been studied yet in this species A better understanding of the genetic control of flowering time in N. caerulescens will help us to understand its morphological and phenotypic behavior as an adaptation to climate conditions. Day lengths of 8 and 12 h did not influence the flowering time when a 4°C cold treatment was applied to induce flowering, indicating that only temperature seems important to induce flowering in N. caerulescens (Guimarães et al., 2013) In addition to the natural occurring variation the identification of early flowering time mutations will also be important for uncovering the key genes involved in the flowering time regulation pathway The present study investigates the variation of the vernalization requirement and response in four representative N caerulescens accessions from diverse environments We confirm the essential roles of FLC and SVP by the identification of mutations in these genes in early non-vernalization requiring plants obtained by forward screening of an EMS-mutagenesis-induced M2 population a flowering time regulation model in the biennial/perennial species N including the effect of high ambient temperatures the seeds were imbibed at 4°C for 4 days before sowing in pots with a mix of fertilized peat and sand under standard greenhouse conditions (16 h light/8 h dark cycle) set at 23°C and 65% relative humidity the plants were vernalized in a cold growth room (at 4°C after 60 days of vegetative growth in the standard greenhouse conditions and subsequently transferred back to the same greenhouse To examine the temperature effect on flowering time seeds were sown in a growth chamber (16 h light/8 h dark) set at 20°C or 30°C The rosette leaves and inflorescences distal from open flowers were collected for RNA extraction when the first flower had opened The inflorescence samples may have contained a few small bracts The effect of a cold period on inflorescence number was evaluated by counting the number of inflorescences 30 days after the transfer back to the warm greenhouse The subsequent inflorescences on the side shoots were not included RNA was extracted following a Trizol protocol (Oñate-Sánchez and Vicente-Carbajosa, 2008) and treated with DNA-free DNase (Promega)1 RNA quality and quantity were determined using agarose gel electrophoresis and a NanoDrop ND1000 spectrophotometer (NanoDrop Technologies cDNA was synthesized from 1 μg of total RNA using a cDNA reverse transcription kit (iScriptTMcDNA Synthesis Kit) following the protocol recommended by the manufacturer Three to five biological replicates for each treatment or accession were used for the analysis the appropriate primer efficiency for each gene was verified and Arabis alpina and the splice variants of NcFLC and NcSVP were aligned using the Bioedit program The three mutants that carry flc mutant alleles were inter-crossed and crossed with putative svp mutants and WT were also crossed to the flc-1 and svp-1 mutants and each other The F1 plants were grown under control conditions Flowering time of the F1 plants was determined as the number of days after sowing when the first flower opened The flowering time of the F2 plants derived from the cross between the early flowering mutants and the SF WT was determined in the same way and the same conditions only a few inflorescences developed after this cold treatment the time to flowering was increased in LE and LC In these accessions some parts of the inflorescences that had bolted did not start flowering at all indicating that not in all meristems the transition to flowering was completed After 10 weeks of cold treatment the number of days to bolting and to flowering was reduced to on average indicating that the vernalization requirement was fully satisfied LE flowered the earliest amongst all accessions with all siliques being well-developed at 30 days after 10 and 12 weeks of cold while the other three accessions were still flowering Variation in vernalization response and NcFLC expression of selected N (A) The transition to flowering as determined by the time to bolting (first flower bud visible) for non-vernalized (NV) plants and for plants vernalized for the indicated number of weeks (W) (B) The time to flowering (first petal visible); and (C) the number of inflorescences per plant in the same treatments as (A) (D) The relative expression of NcFLC in rosette leaves upon vernalization for the indicated number of weeks relative to the expression of NcFLC in SF after 12 weeks of vernalization (=1) The expression of NcTubulin is used to normalize cDNA concentrations Values are the mean of three to five plants NV-1: 2-month-old non-vernalized plants; NV-2: 5-month-old non-vernalized plants the NcFLC transcript threshold to repress flowering seems much higher than in LE with GA only requiring 4 weeks of vernalization to induce flowering at a higher NcFLC expression level than LE One reason why the four accessions required different weeks of cold for the full acceleration of flowering could be that NcFLC expression recovers differently between accessions after the transfer to warmer conditions. Therefore, we also determined the maintenance of NcFLC gene expression in the four accessions at 10 and 30 days after the vernalization treatment (Figure 2) the relative NcFLC expression indeed increased 10 days after returning to the warm greenhouse in LC NcFLC transcript levels stayed constantly low NcFLC expression increased again after 30 days in the warm greenhouse but the increase was less prominent in GA and LE compared to SF and LC the NcFLC expression remained more repressed the longer the cold period lasted NcFLC transcript levels are relatively more stably repressed than in LE and LC when the cold treatment lasted up to 10 weeks at which time flowering is induced in all accessions This suggests that the recovery of NcFLC transcript levels immediately after the transfer to the warm greenhouse correlates with the absence of flowering after a short period of vernalization Variation in maintaining repression of NcFLC expression upon vernalization caerulescens rosette leaves of accessions Ganges (GA) and La Calamine (LC) of plants either non-vernalized (NV-1; 6 months after sowing) or vernalized for 4 or 12 weeks (W) at 4°C after 2 months of growth at 23°C and subsequently returned to the warm greenhouse and 30 days (Days) following the vernalization treatment Expression is expressed relative to the expression of NcFLC in SF after 12 weeks of vernalization in rosette leaves collected directly after vernalization (=1) Each value represents the mean of three to five plants Identification and analysis of early flowering N Felix de Pallières (SF) wild type (WT) growing without vernalization (B) Relative expression of NcFLC in rosette leaves of early flowering mutants and WT plants (C) Relative expression of NcSVP in rosette leaves of early flowering mutants and WT plants (D) Days to bolting of self-fertilized and F1 progeny of the early flowering mutants and inter-mutant or mutant-WT crosses growing under non-vernalizing conditions GA-A7 and GA-A2 are the early flowering mutants in Ganges (GA) background Rosette leaves for expression analysis were collected when the first flower had opened Expression levels were determined relative to the expression of NcTubulin (=1) Each value represents at least three plants ± SE Asterisks indicate significant differences from WT all F1 plants derived from the back-cross with WT (T10-42 and T81-27) and the F1 hybrids between T81-27 and the three mutants of the first complementation group did not flower in these conditions indicating that T81-27 carries a mutation at a second locus Analysis of the BC1S1 progeny of the mutant × WT crosses under non-vernalization conditions revealed that all the segregation ratios agreed with a Mendelian 3: 1 ratio of non-flowering: early flowering plants (data not shown) which shows that this mutant is affected in another gene caerulescens FLC and SVP DNA sequences in WT and the flc and svp mutants (A) Schematic representation of the Arabidopsis thaliana FLC genomic DNA (gDNA) sequence (AtFLC) compared to the NcFLC genomic DNA sequence in N Numbers indicate total DNA sequence length in base pairs Intron DNA sequences are indicated with a horizontal black line 5′ and 3′ untranslated regions (UTR) are indicated with red boxes Protein coding exons are indicated with green boxes G to A single base pair mutations are found in all mutants The mutations in flc-1 and flc-2 are identical The mutation in these mutants locates at the 3′ splice junction of exon 3 while the mutation in flc-3 locates at the 5′ splice junction of exon 3 (B) Schematic representation of NcFLC coding sequences (CDS) of the N The G to A mutation in flc-1/flc-2 causes an in-frame substitution of exon 3 sequence while the mutation in flc-3 leads to a 9 bp deletion at the start of exon 3 the alternative exon 3 in the flc-1/flc-2 CDS is indicated with a horizontal black line a G to A mutation was found at the 3’ splice junction of exon 4 The mutation in svp-1 causes an in-frame deletion of part of exon 4 while the mutation in svp-2 leads to a single amino acid change of Leucine to Phenylalanine in exon 1 The numbers at the end of each line indicate the total number of nucleotides As this is likely to alter the SVP function in this mutant this could not be confirmed by allelism tests because of the complete sterility of this mutant So far, the plants used in this study had been selected and grown during winter in a heated greenhouse. When growing the plants in late spring or summer, we noticed that these plants did not flower properly (Supplementary Figure S3) During these periods the day temperature often exceeded 30°C This prompted us to examine whether the higher ambient temperatures affect flowering in N WT and flc-1 mutant plants were grown in climate-controlled growth chamber under long day conditions (16/8 h day/night) with the day temperature set at either 20°C or 30°C and the night temperature at 18°C The flowering time was determined as the number of days between sowing and bolting of each plant This indicates that the reproductive fitness of the plants is fine at an ambient day temperature of 20°C but strongly reduced at the higher temperature of 30°C The phenotype of WT and flc-1 mutant plants at two different day temperatures (A) Flowering plants of WT and the flc-1 mutant grown for 2 months at either 20 or 30°C (B) The primary inflorescence of the flc-1 mutant grown at 20°C (C) The primary inflorescence and (D) a secondary inflorescence of the flc-1 mutant grown at 30°C (E) The inflorescence top of the flc-1 mutant at 20°C and at (F) 30°C (G) The leaves on a primary inflorescence of the flc-1 mutant when grown at 20°C (left) and 30°C (right) To further investigate the effects of the day temperature differences on flowering of N. caerulescens, the expression of flowering genes was determined in rosette leaves and the inflorescence heads (the top parts of an inflorescence, containing the flower buds and no open flowers) of flc-1 and WT plants growing at 20°C and 30°C day temperatures (Figure 6) The analysis included the floral repressor genes NcFLC and NcSVP the expression of floral integrators FLOWERING LOCUS T (NcFT) and SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CONSTANS (NcSOC1) as well as the floral organ identify genes LEAFY (NcLFY) and APETALA1 (NcAP1) Higher NcFLC transcript levels were detected in the rosette leaves of WT at 20°C than at 30°C indicating that the temperature influences the expression of NcFLC NcSVP expression was up-regulated in rosette leaves at 30°C with slightly lower expression observed in the flc-1 mutant but more up-regulated in leaves of the flc-1 mutant than in WT under both temperatures the expression levels of the floral organ identify genes NcLFY and NcAP1 were considerably down-regulated in the inflorescence heads at 30°C compared to 20°C Especially NcAP1 expression was 14 times higher in the flc-1 mutant at 20°C than at 30°C caerulescens genes in different organs and temperatures NcLFY and NcAP1 in rosette leaves (leaf) and flowering heads (FH) of St Felix de Pallières wild-type (WT) and flc-1 mutant plants grown at 20°C (blue bars) or 30°C (red bars) Expression levels are expressed relative to the expression of NcFT in WT (=1) Values indicate the average of at least three plants ± SE Asterisks indicate significant differences between 20°C and 30°C a faster vernalization response is predicted to confer a selective advantage to plants that flower earlier thus to avoid early summer droughts and high temperatures that results in poor seed set LE and LC originate from Luxembourg and Belgium and are biennial or facultative perennial accessions that will have to deal with more severe winters and cooler summers compared to the French accessions This implies that these accessions should have more opportunities to satisfy the longer vernalization period they require and allowing them to flower later than the accessions from southern France when compared under the same conditions NcSVP or any of the NcMAF genes and did not show any mutations in the cDNA sequences of these genes (data not shown) which indicates that there is at least a third locus in N caerulescens required for suppression of flowering in non-vernalizing conditions Since none of the above-mentioned candidate genes are affected map-based cloning and genome sequencing will be needed to identify the causal mutation The observation that single mutants of all three genes result in early flowering indicates that they operate in mutual dependency Although N.caerulescens is typically a vernalization-obligate species investigating the photoperiod response would enhance the understanding of NcSVP functionality as in NcFLC the sequences of the exon 1 duplications are identical Since both biennial and perennial plants were found in the field for the LE and LC accessions the perpetual flowering habit might be part of the life style in some N It appears to be rarer for the SF and GA accessions which may very well be related to the summer conditions at the locations where these accessions are found These are much warmer and especially drier than those of the more northern accessions and therefore much less likely to support proper perennial growth of N The partially stable expression of NcFLC seems to be intermediate between A corresponding to the somewhat intermediate life style will be interesting to fully understand this complex trait Such reversion might be an advantage in dry and hot which would not be favorable for reproduction The identification of N. caerulescens genes that control flowering allows us to compare the molecular pathways controlling seasonal flowering in N. caerulescens with those in A. thaliana. Based on the transcriptional analysis of key genes in the vernalization pathway, in the non-vernalization requiring mutants, we propose a flowering time regulation model for N. caerulescens (Figure 7) caerulescens is further affected by down-regulation of the floral identity genes NcLFY and NcAP1 under high temperatures as we expect to happen late in spring or summer This occurs despite the upregulated expression of floral integrators such as NcFT and NcSOC1 The temperature sensitivity of the regulating genes LFY and AP1 will be an interesting topic for further study in other biennial or perennial species Model of the flowering time regulation pathway in N the vernalization pathway resembles that of A but no longer able to induce the downstream floral identity genes NcLFY and NcAP1 which delays and disturbs floral initiation at this temperature which functions parallel to NcFLC and NcSVP may suppress the expression of NcLFY and NcAP1 at 30°C Bar-ended lines indicate repression of expression Solid lines indicate confirmed expression effects while dotted lines indicate interactions still unconfirmed The datasets presented in this study can be found in online repositories. 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