Article
Virus-induced gene silencing as a tool for comparative functional studies in Thalictrum.
PloS one - 10 Aug 2010
Di Stilio Verónica S, Kumar Rachana A, Oddone Alessandra M, Tolkin Theadora R, Salles Patricia, McCarty Kacie
Abstract excerpt
Perennial woodland herbs in the genus Thalictrum exhibit high diversity of floral morphology, including four breeding and two pollination systems. Their phylogenetic position, in the early-diverging eudicots, makes them especially suitable for exploring the evolution of floral traits and the fate of gene paralogs that may have shaped the radiation of the eudicots. A current limitation in evolution of plant...
Topics
- Gene Silencing
- Genetic Vectors
- MADS Domain Proteins
- Oxidoreductases
- Phenotype
- Plant Leaves
- Plant Proteins
- Seedlings
- Thalictrum
