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FLOOZY of petunia is a flavin mono-oxygenase-like protein required for the specification of leaf and flower architecture.
Genes & development - 15 Mar 2002
Tobeña-Santamaria Rafael, Bliek Mattijs, Ljung Karin, Sandberg Göran, Mol Joseph N M, Souer Erik, Koes Ronald
Abstract excerpt
The mechanisms that determine the relative positions of floral organs, and thereby their numbers, is a poorly understood aspect of flower development. We isolated a petunia mutant, floozy (fzy), in which the formation of floral organ primordia in the outermost three floral whorls and one of the two bracts at the base of the flower is blocked at an early stage. In addition, fzy mutants fail to generate secondary...
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