This low temperature requirement for flowering, called vernalization, begins at germination. Vernalization is assumed to occur at temperatures between 0 and 18°C (Ahrens and Loomis, 1963; Tirone and Metzer, 1970).
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Vernalization
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21 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- яровиза́ция noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
Catalan
1 entries- vernalització noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 春化 noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
- 春化作用 noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
Finnish
3 entries- idunviritys noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
- keväistys noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
- vernalisaatio noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
French
1 entries- vernalisation noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
German
4 entries- Jarowisation noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
- Jarowisierung noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
- Vernalisation noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
- Vernalisierung noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
Greek
1 entries- εαρινοποίηση noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
Italian
2 entries- iarovizzazione noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
- jarovizzazione noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
Japanese
1 entries- 春化処理 noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
Korean
1 entries- 춘화 처리 noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
Portuguese
1 entries- vernalização noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
Russian
1 entries- яровизация noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
Vietnamese
2 entries- sự xuân hoá noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
- xuân hoá noun (certain treatment of seeds or bulbs)
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Species needing vernalization do not flower when grown in a warm climate.
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For some plants, however, exposure to low temperatures during winter is an essential step in their development. Two of these processes, vernalisation and the breaking of winter dormancy, have important implications for gardeners.
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Furthermore, vernalization has been shown to override the late-flowering phenotype. […] Both VRN1 and VRN2 genes have been identified to be associated with vernalization.
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