Fiddlehead: an Arabidopsis mutant constitutively expressing an organ fusion program that involves interactions between epidermal cells.

doi:10.1016/0012-1606(92)90145-7

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Fiddlehead: an Arabidopsis mutant constitutively expressing an organ fusion program that involves interactions between epidermal cells.

Developmental biology - 1 Aug 1992

Lolle S J, Cheung A Y, Sussex I M

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In most circumstances plant epidermal cells do not respond to surface contact with adjacent plant parts. We have identified and characterized a mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana, designated fiddlehead, where lateral appendages of the shoot fuse with one another. While fusion between floral organs is...

Topics

Cell Adhesion
Cell Fusion
Morphogenesis
Mutation
Phenotype
Plants

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