Article
Maize mutants and variants altering developmental time and their heterochronic interactions.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Apr 1992
Freeling M, Bertrand-Garcia R, Sinha N
Abstract excerpt
It is useful to envision two fundamentally different ways by which the timing of plant development is regulated: developmental stage-transition mechanisms and time-to-flowering mechanisms. The existence of both mechanisms is indicated by the behavior of various mutants. Shoot stage transitions are defined by dominant mutants representing at least four different genes; each mutant retards transitions from juvenile...
Topics
- Biological Evolution
- Genetic Variation
- Morphogenesis
- Zea mays
