Perspectives for the update of the Flowering Interactive Database [www.FLOR-ID.org]

Abstract

The mechanisms controlling the onset of flowering are particularly well documented in Arabidopsis thaliana: hundreds of genes involved in interconnected regulatory networks converge toward the regulation of a few “integrator genes” that ultimately initiate the transition to reproductive development. In 2016, we published a hand-curated interactive database of flowering-time genes (www. or-id.org) that summarizes the knowledge of >1500 articles on this topic. The website includes a set of interactive schemes relying on a list of 306 flowering genes, each of which has a specific detailed webpage describing its function and interactome. Our knowledge of the mechanisms fine-tuning the timing of flowering in Arabidopsis evolves quickly as new articles are published weekly on this topic. Therefore, we think that an update of the FLOR-ID database is timely and would be helpful to the research community