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Control of petal shape and floral zygomorphy in Lotus japonicus.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Mar 2006
Feng Xianzhong, Zhao Zhong, Tian Zhaoxia, Xu Shilei, Luo Yonghai, Cai Zhigang, Wang Yumei, Yang Jun, Wang Zheng, Weng Lin, Chen Jianghua, Zheng Leiying, Guo Xizhi, Luo Jianghong, Sato Shusei, Tabata Satoshi, Ma Wei, Cao Xiangling, Hu Xiaohe, Sun Chongrong, Luo Da
Abstract excerpt
Zygomorphic flowers, with bilateral (dorsoventral) symmetry, are considered to have evolved several times independently in flowering plants. In Antirrhinum majus, floral dorsoventral symmetry depends on the activity of two TCP-box genes, CYCLOIDEA (CYC) and DICHOTOMA (DICH). To examine whether the same molecular mechanism of floral asymmetry operates in the distantly related Rosid clade of eudicots, in which...
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