Soybean Plant Flowering. Apetala1 ap1 functions as a class a gene in the abce model for floral organ development helping to specify carpel stamen petal and sepal identities. Repressed so flowering does not occur taiz et al 2015.
This model is consistent with the mechanism that controls flowering in rice which is a model short day plant. However with agronomists now preaching the virtues of early soybean planting coupled with the power of twitter we now see pictures and evidence of soybean flowers occurring as. So we re actually triggering it on the front end where typically when we used to plant soybeans we were triggering it on the back end.
Soybean redirects leaf growth toward the sun after a soybean plant partially lodges.
Repressed so flowering does not occur taiz et al 2015. After flowering begins temperature drives growth through pod development the warmer the summer the faster the plant develops. Cao et al 2016. Soybean maturity will be delayed in soybeans that are grown near high intensity roadway lighting because plants perceive the artificial light as an extended day.
