Article
The ABCs of flower development: mutational analysis of AP1/FUL-like genes in rice provides evidence for a homeotic (A)-function in grasses.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Jan 2017
Wu Feng, Shi Xiaowei, Lin Xuelei, Liu Yuan, Chong Kang, Theißen Günter, Meng Zheng
Abstract excerpt
The well-known ABC model describes the combinatorial interaction of homeotic genes in specifying floral organ identities. While the B- and C-functions are highly conserved throughout flowering plants and even in gymnosperms, the A-function, which specifies the identity of perianth organs (sepals and petals in eudicots), remains controversial. One reason for this is that in most plants that have been investigated...
Topics
- Arabidopsis
- Flowers
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Inflorescence
- MADS Domain Proteins
- Meristem
- Mutation
- Oryza
- Phylogeny
- Plant Proteins