Diversity of flowering responses in wild Arabidopsis thaliana strains.

"microarray data have been deposited with the arrayexpress database ( http://www ebi ac uk/arrayexpress ; experiment e-tabm-18 and e-tabm-19). we analyzed flowering time in a random set of accessions of single-seed descent reflecting much of the geographic diversity represented in the european arabidopsis stock centre ( http://www arabidopsis info ) at the time ( dataset s1 ; table s1 ; figure s1 ).; dataset s1 data file of flowering-time-related traits in accessions and mutants.; the data are also available as a csv file ( dataset s1 ) (62 kb pdf) click here for additional data file. table s1 ) (38 kb csv"

"Competing interests. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist."

"We thank the Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre and Rick Amasino for seed stocks; Josip Perkovic for technical assistance; Jan Lohmann for help with microarray experiments; Norman Warthmann for help with programming in R; and John Stinchcombe for providing the flowering data referred to in his Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States (2004) paper [10]. We thank Kirsten Bomblies, Justin O. Borevitz, Joanne Chory, Richard Clark, Vava Grbic, Yasushi Kobayashi, Julin Maloof, Norman Warthmann, and Jonathan Werner for discussion and critical reading of the manuscript; and two anonymous reviewers for insightful comments. We acknowledge the use of microarray data produced in the context of the AtGenExpress project, which is coordinated by Lutz Nover (Frankfurt), Thomas Altmann (Potsdam), and D.W., and supported by funds from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Max Planck Society. Our work was also supported by a European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Long-Term Fellowship to S.B., a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant (GM62932) to D.W., and by the Max Planck Society, of which D.W. is a director."