vernalization

American  

[ver-nuhl-uh-zay-shuhn] / ˌvər nəl əˈzeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. Botany. the act or process of vernalizing.

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vernalization Scientific  

/ vûr′nə-lĭ-zā′shən /

1. The subjection of seeds or seedlings to low temperature in order to hasten plant development and flowering. Vernalization is commonly used for crop plants such as winter rye and is possible because the seeds and buds of many plants require cold in order to break dormancy.

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Example Sentences

In these mutant plants, NTL8 and NTL14 were more active than normal, and the plants with mutant NTL8 overcame the requirement to undergo vernalization in order to repress FLC expression.

From Nature • Jul. 14, 2020

The REM subfamily is functionally related to vernalization and flower development18.

From Nature • May 8, 2018

You induce bolting by giving the plant an artificial winter, a process called vernalization after the Latin word for spring.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2015

This process of vernalization translates environmental temperatures into developmental responses through a cascade of molecular responses that depend on epigenetic regulation of the floral repressor.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 6, 2011

To call vernalization "a remarkable discovery" did not sound like Vavilov, who must have known that the refrigeration technique was used in the U.S. before the Civil War.

From Time Magazine Archive