3) For the flowering time comparison, the lines were vernalized. However, FLM is known to be repressed by vernalization (as the authors note), so how could it be affecting flowering, and might there be variation among lines in how FLM responds to the vernalization? It seems more likely that other loci that are correlated with FLM are controlling flowering time here. The authors should either measure FLM expression in these vernalized plants and correlate that with flowering, or repeat the experiment without vernalization where FLM and FLC expression in these lines has already been measured. A better way to control for FLC variation would be to statistically account for its effects with multiple regression.