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Molecular and genetic analyses of the silky1 gene reveal conservation in floral organ specification between eudicots and monocots.
Molecular cell - 1 Mar 2000
Ambrose B A, Lerner D R, Ciceri P, Padilla C M, Yanofsky M F, Schmidt R J
Abstract excerpt
The degree to which the eudicot-based ABC model of flower organ identity applies to the other major subclass of angrosperms, the monocots, has yet to be fully explored. We cloned silky1 (si1), a male sterile mutant of Zea mays that has homeotic conversions of stamens into carpels and lodicules into palea/lemma-like structures. Our studies indicate that si1 is a monocot B function MADS box gene. Moreover, the si1...
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