Carpel development in a floral mutant of dioecious Silene latifolia producing asexual and female-like flowers.

doi:10.1016/j.jplph.2009.04.004

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Carpel development in a floral mutant of dioecious Silene latifolia producing asexual and female-like flowers.

Journal of plant physiology - 1 Nov 2009

Koizumi Ayako, Yamanaka Kahori, Kawano Shigeyuki

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The genes SlSTM1 and SlSTM2 (orthologs of Arabidopsis SHOOT MERISTEMLESS) and SlCUC (an ortholog of CUP-SHAPED COTYLEDON1 and CUC2) of the dioecious species Silene latifolia have been proposed to control the gynoecium suppression pathway in developing flowers. In a mutant of S. latifolia (K034) that produces no males but only asexual and imperfect female (female-like) flowers, both on the same individual,...

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