AUTHOR=Xu Kun , Zhang Xiao-Mei , Chen Haifeng , Zhang Chanjuan , Zhu Jinlong , Cheng Zhiyuan , Huang Penghui , Zhou Xinan , Miao Yuchen , Feng Xianzhong , Fu Yong-Fu TITLE=Fine-Tuning Florigen Increases Field Yield Through Improving Photosynthesis in Soybean JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science VOLUME=12 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.710754 DOI=10.3389/fpls.2021.710754 ISSN=1664-462X ABSTRACT=
Crop yield has been maintaining its attraction for researchers because of the demand of global population growth. Mutation of flowering activators, such as florigen, increases plant biomass at the expense of later flowering, which prevents crop maturity in the field. As a result, it is difficult to apply flowering activators in agriculture production. Here, we developed a strategy to utilize florigen to significantly improve soybean yield in the field. Through the screening of transgenic lines of RNAi-silenced florigen homologs in soybean (