'Pioneer' factors allow plants to grow flowers (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania

'Pioneer' factors allow plants to grow flowers

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Using an experimental technique whereby flowers can be coaxed to form from plant roots, biologists led by the University of Pennsylvania's Doris Wagner uncovered a protein that enables for the initial loosening of chromatin that can allow new proteins to be made and plants to take on different forms.

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