Analysis of members of the Silene latifolia Cys2/His2 zinc-finger transcription factor family during dioecious flower development and in a novel stamen-defective mutant ssf1.

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Sex determination in dioecious Silene latifolia Poir. is governed by the inheritance of heteromorphic sex chromosomes. In male plants the Y chromosome influences two aspects of male organogenesis, the continued differentiation of stamen primordia and male fertility, and one aspect of female organogenesis, the arrest of development of the pistil. S. latifolia is susceptible to infection by the parasitic smut...

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