[本刊辑]近日,中国农业科学院北京畜牧兽医研究所杨青川研究员及其科研团队在国际上首次发现了紫花苜蓿开花调控基因——CCCH类型锌指蛋白MsZFN基因。这将为紫花苜蓿开花控制调控机制研究,加快紫花苜蓿早熟、耐盐新品系选育奠定基础。相关研究结果已发表于《植物科学(Plant Science)》上。据杨青川介绍,锌指蛋白是广泛分布于生物体内的一类转录因子,在生物体内起到转录调控的作用,现已经有大量的锌指蛋白被分离和鉴定出来, Recently, researcher Yang Qingchuan from Beijing Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and his research team have discovered for the first time the gene for flowering of alfalfa, the CCZ type zinc finger protein MsZFN. This will lay the foundation for alfalfa flowering regulation and control mechanism, speeding up alfalfa early maturity, salt tolerant new line selection. Related research findings have been published in Plant Science. According to Yang Qingchuan introduction, zinc finger protein is widely distributed in the body of a class of transcription factors play a transcriptional regulatory role in the body, there are already a large number of zinc finger protein was isolated and identified,