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A light-regulated genetic module was recruited to carpel development in Arabidopsis following a structural change to SPATULA.
The Plant cell - 1 Jul 2012
Reymond Mathieu C, Brunoud Géraldine, Chauvet Aurélie, Martínez-Garcia Jaime F, Martin-Magniette Marie-Laure, Monéger Françoise, Scutt Charles P
Abstract excerpt
A key innovation of flowering plants is the female reproductive organ, the carpel. Here, we show that a mechanism that regulates carpel margin development in the model flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana was recruited from light-regulated processes. This recruitment followed the loss from the ba...
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