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The Evergreen gene is essential for flower initiation in carnation.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Scovel G, Altshuler T, Liu Z, Vainstein A
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One of the leading cut-flower crops in the world, the greenhouse carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus), has been subjected to intense breeding efforts for the past few hundred years. As an ornamental crop, flowering and flower architecture are major breeding targets that are constantly in demand. In an ongoing breeding program aimed at improving these characteristics, two mutants heterozygous for a mutation in a gene...
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