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안지훈 (고려대학교 생명과학부) Professor Ahn has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the control of flowering time by ambient temperature changes. Best known of Ahn's discoveries is that a small group of genes that act within a distinct pathway, the thermosensory pathway, mediate ambient temperature response. This finding was one of the first clues to the molecular genetic mechanism of plants' behavior to the ambient temperature changes. There is increasing concern about the potential impact of global temperature changes, which significantly affect ambient temperature, on plant development. Although a great deal of progress has been made in our understanding of the regulation of plant development by low temperature, less is currently known about the molecular mechanisms underlying the responses of plants to changes in ambient temperature. His findings have provided a new explanation for the genetic mechanisms by which plants respond to ambient temperature changes. He proposed the thermosensory pathway genes control flowering time (Nature Genetics). He has shown that SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (SVP) acts within the thermosensory pathway and plays a role in ambient temperature response via direct binding to the cis-acting element of FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT), an important floral integrator gene (Genes and Development). In addition, he has shown that small RNAs play an important regulatory role in ambient temperature signaling and that SVP provides a link between the thermosensory pathway and ambient temperature-responsive miRNAs (Nucleic Acids Research). Representative papers |