Article
Genetic regulation of maize flower development and sex determination.
Planta - 1 Jan 2017
Li Qinglin, Liu Baoshen
Abstract excerpt
MAIN CONCLUSION: The determining process of pistil fate are central to maize sex determination, mainly regulated by a genetic network in which the sex-determining genes SILKLESS 1 , TASSEL SEED 1 , TASSEL SEED 2 and the paramutagenic locus Required to maintain repression 6 play pivotal roles. Maize silks, which emerge from the ear shoot and derived from the pistil, are the functional stigmas of female flowers and...
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