1) The authors have clarified that the major concerns about the exclusion of accessions from the correlation of FLM expression and flowering time was largely based on a misunderstanding of the method and intention of the analysis. The changes to the text makes this much more clear now. The exclusion of the “exceptional" haplotypes raises the correlation from 0.13 to 0.46 in a linear regression analysis. Please also provide the corresponding p-values here to make sure that the p-values reflect a robust correlation effect (as is done in the further analysis of FLMß/FLC expression via multiple regression analysis). Please also describe how p-values were obtained for both cases then.