DESCRIPTION:Lagercrantz & Axelsson. 2000: A family of CONSTANS LIKE genes (COLs) has recently been identified in Arabidopsis thaliana and other plant species. CONSTANS, the first isolated member, is a putative zinc finger transcription factor that promotes the induction of flowering in A. thaliana in long photoperiods.
Members of this family
SHOULD possess CCT zf-B_box domains
SHOULD NOT possess GATA PLATZ domains
References
Lagercrantz, U; Axelsson, T. 2000. Rapid evolution of the family of CONSTANS LIKE genes in plants. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17(10):1499-507 PUBMEDID:11018156