W ith intrinsic acetyltransferaseactivities, CREB binding protein (CBP)/p300 proteins mediate a variety of physiological events, such as proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis, by regulating both histones and non-histone proteins. Arabidopsis CBP-type histone acetyltransferase family proteins, HACs, have been found to influence flower by regulating the expression of Flowering Locus C. We recently reported that HAC family genes involved in the ethylene signaling pathway. Thereafter, we systematically analyzed the morphological and developmental phenotypes of all the hac mutant combinations including plant size, root, flower, leaf defects, and late-flowering. Here we reinforce the ubiquitous regulation mechanism of HAC family genes, in which HAC1 plays a dominant role with the synergistic assist of HAC5 and HAC12, whereas HAC4 slightly alleviates the influence of HAC1 and HAC5.In mammals, CBP and p300 are very versatile proteins with intrinsic acetyltransferase activities, which participate in almost all processes of cell biology and organism development. [1][2][3] On the one hand, CBP/p300 modifies histones by acetylating the lysines in their N-terminal tails, whereby relaxes the chromatin structure and make chromosomal DNA more accessible to the transcription complex. 4 On the other hand, structural and functional studies have shown that CBP/p300 regulates many nonhistone proteins as well, including the important transcription factors, p53 and MEF2. [5][6][7] Both in vitro and in vivo data showed that CBP/p300 acetylates multiple lysine sites in the carboxyl terminus of the p53, which is indispensable for the p53-mediated transcription of p21. 7 Upon DNA damage, the CBP/p300 mediated acetylation of the p53 is greatly enhanced, which led to the stabilization of p53. 8 With a broad spectrum of CBP/ p300s functions, the studies on the HAC family genes in plants just show up a tip of the iceberg. In Arabidopsis, there are 5 HAC family members, namely HAC1, HAC2, HAC4, HAC5, and HAC12. The HAT activity of HAC1 was confirmed, whereas HAC2 was proved to lack of the HAT activity. Therefore, our studies were generated in terms of HAC1, HAC4, HAC5, and HAC12. There were 2 reports demonstrated that the HAC family genes promote flower by regulating the expression of the FLC. 9,10 Concurrently with the 2 groups, we found that hac1-involved mutants were significantly lateflowering compared with the WT plant. We measured the flowering time of all the hac mutant combinations grown under the long day condition (16h light/8h dark). We used the rosette leaf number, first flower bud appear time and first flower open time as the standards. The results were consistent for the 3 sets of data, following the sequence as WT (11.1 ± 1 RL), non-hac1-involved mutants (about 12