2) Secondly, I am concerned with the results presented in Figure 8 – the correlations between FLM expression in accessions and a) expression in constructs and b) flowering times of the accessions. In order to find a correlation between FLM expression in accessions and in the transgenic lines with the corresponding constructs, the authors dropped an "outlier" point (1 each for FLMb and FLMd). No justification for this is given beyond the point not fitting expectations. It's not clear from Figure 8—figure supplement 1 that these points are really more outliers than any others. And, it's not that this is really a single point – on the y-axis this is the average expression of ~10 accessions, so why should they all be dropped?