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'Who's who' in two different flower types of Calluna vulgaris (Ericaceae): morphological and molecular analyses of flower organ identity.
BMC plant biology - 14 Dec 2009
Borchert Thomas, Eckardt Katrin, Fuchs Jörg, Krüger Katja, Hohe Annette
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The ornamental crop Calluna vulgaris is of increasing importance to the horticultural industry in the northern hemisphere due to a flower organ mutation: the flowers of the 'bud-flowering' phenotype remain closed i.e. as buds throughout the total flowering period and thereby maintain more colorful flowers for a longer period of time than the wild-type. This feature is accompanied and presumably caused...
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