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Monday, 09-03-2026 | 08:40
Aspartic proteases represent a class of proteolytic enzymes widely implicated in plant growth regulation and abiotic stress responses. Our previous work identified an aspartic protease, GmAP1, whose expression is strongly correlated with flowering time in wild soybean populations. In this study, we further demonstrated that GmAP1 overexpression (OE) significantly delays flowering, whereas CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockout (CR) accelerates this process.



