Natural variation in plant telomere length is associated with flowering time.

In seven cases, there were significant negative correlations between telomere repeat copy number and flowering time ( ρ = −0.123 to −0.169, P < 0.008 to 0.045; see Figure 6 for one example), one was marginally nonsignificant ( ρ = −0.130, P < 0.057), and one still appeared negative but was nonsignificant ( ρ = −0.057, P < 0.43; see Supplemental Table 3 ).

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