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bearded-ear encodes a MADS box transcription factor critical for maize floral development.
The Plant cell - 1 Sept 2009
Thompson Beth E, Bartling Linnea, Whipple Clint, Hall Darren H, Sakai Hajime, Schmidt Robert, Hake Sarah
Abstract excerpt
Although many genes that regulate floral development have been identified in Arabidopsis thaliana, relatively few are known in the grasses. In normal maize (Zea mays), each spikelet produces an upper and lower floral meristem, which initiate floral organs in a defined phyllotaxy before being consumed in the production of an ovule. The bearded-ear (bde) mutation affects floral development differently in the upper...
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