vernalization in English

noun
1
the cooling of seed during germination in order to accelerate flowering when it is planted.
This experiment was repeated in part during 2000-2001: 15 plants received zero hours of vernalization and 15 full vernalization .

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1. The alleles on chromosomes 5A and 5B of Hope are dominant to those on their respective homologues in Chinese Spring for lowered vernalization response, while that on Hope 5D is dominant to that on Chinese Spring 5D for increased vernalization response.

2. Vernalization is required for Collards to bolt (become reproductive) therefore planting anytime during the growing season will result in pure vegetative growth

3. To quantify the variation among wild Accessions due to FRI, and to identify additional genetic loci in wild Accessions that influence flowering time, we surveyed the flowering times of 145 Accessions in long-day photoperiods, with and without a 30-day vernalization treatment, and genotyped them for two common natural lesions in FRI.