Interest in mechanistic aspects of gene regulation at the interface of chromatin and transcription factors. FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) encodes florigen. Transcriptional regulation of FT is the point of integration of many environmental and developmental cues. The promoter is regulated by interactions between distal and proximal regulatory regions and epigenetic repressors of the Polycomb Group (PcG). Recently, we have extended our research from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to related crops such as kal and rapeseed.