Dame Caroline Dean is a British plant scientist, born in 1957, who works at the John Innes Centre and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Her research explains the molecular controls that let plants judge seasonal timing for flowering, particularly vernalization, the process by which a prolonged period of cold accelerates flowering in spring, and she has traced this to gene regulation and epigenetic, chromatin-based silencing of the Flowering Locus C gene that lets a plant remember it has been through winter. She was instrumental in establishing the small mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana as a standard model organism in plant science.
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Defining ContributionDean studies the molecular controls plants use to judge when to flower, focused on vernalisation, the acceleration of flowering after exposure to prolonged cold. 1 Connections
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Dame Caroline Dean (born 2 April 1957) is a British plant scientist working at the John Innes Centre.
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She is focused on understanding the molecular controls used by plants to seasonally judge when to flower.
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