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Isolation and characterization of the C-class MADS-box gene involved in the formation of double flowers in Japanese gentian.
BMC plant biology - 17 Jul 2015
Nakatsuka Takashi, Saito Misa, Yamada Eri, Fujita Kohei, Yamagishi Noriko, Yoshikawa Nobuyuki, Nishihara Masahiro
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Generally, double-flowered varieties are more attractive than single-flowered varieties in ornamental plants. Japanese gentian is one of the most popular floricultural plants in Japan, and it is desirable to breed elite double-flowered cultivars. In this study, we attempted to charact...
Topics
- Arabidopsis
- Flowers
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Gene Silencing
- Genes, Plant
- Gentiana
- MADS Domain Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Organ Specificity