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Multi-petal cyclamen flowers produced by AGAMOUS chimeric repressor expression.
Scientific reports - 1 Jan 2013
Tanaka Yuri, Oshima Yoshimi, Yamamura Tomomichi, Sugiyama Masao, Mitsuda Nobutaka, Ohtsubo Norihiro, Ohme-Takagi Masaru, Terakawa Teruhiko
Abstract excerpt
Cyclamen persicum (cyclamen) is a commercially valuable, winter-blooming perennial plant. We cloned two cyclamen orthologues of AGAMOUS (AG), CpAG1 and CpAG2, which are mainly expressed in the stamen and carpel, respectively. Cyclamen flowers have 5 petals, but expression of a chimeric repressor of CpAG1 (CpAG1-SRDX) caused stamens to convert into petals, resulting in a flower with 10 petals. By contrast,...
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