A hypothetical plant hormone that stimulates or triggers the flowering process in plants.
From Latin flos (flower) combined with -gen (producing/generating), based on Greek genos. This term was coined by botanists studying what signals control flowering initiation.
Scientists spent decades searching for florigen like it was a botanical holy grail—they finally identified it as the FT protein in 2007, solving one of biology's longest-running mysteries!
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