Researchers have discovered a previously unknown gene in sugar beets that blocks flowering. Only with the cold of winter is the gene shut off, allowing the sugar beet to blossom in its second year.

Cultivated sugar beet, Beta vulgaris L., is a biennial plant that requires cold temperature (vernalisation) and long days to initiate flower development. The aims of our investigations are to develop ...

CURTIS, G., HORNSEY, K. Graft-transmissible Induction of Elongation and Flowering in Scions of Sugar-beet bred for Resistance to Bolting. Nature 202, 1238 (1964 ...

This news release is available in German. An international team of researchers from Bielefeld University, Germany, the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain, the Max Planck Institute ...

Sugar beet drilling is racing to a close in the current dry weather with higher beet prices and the availability of a key virus yellows seed treatment prompting more optimism among beet growers and ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Freezing temperatures across much of France this week may have caused severe damage to newly planted sugar beet, adding to the difficulties of a sector hit by crop disease and low ...

Researchers at Umeå Plant Science Center in Sweden discovered, in collaboration with the Syngenta company, a previously unknown gene in sugar beets that blocks flowering. Only with the cold of winter ...