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Isolation of the floral morph-related genes in heterostylous flax (Linum grandiflorum): the genetic polymorphism and the transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulations of the S locus.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Jan 2012
Ushijima Koichiro, Nakano Ryohei, Bando Mayu, Shigezane Yukari, Ikeda Kazuo, Namba Yuko, Kume Saori, Kitabata Toshiyuki, Mori Hitoshi, Kubo Yasutaka
Abstract excerpt
Heterostylous species have two types of flowers, thrum and pin morphs, and these are controlled by a single diallelic locus designated the 'S locus'; fertilization between these two types of flowers is successful. The S gene and the molecular mechanism by which it operates remain to be uncovered, although heterostyly has been studied since the time of Darwin. We compared transcripts and proteins of the thrum and...
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