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A single dominant GLOBOSA allele accounts for repeated origins of hose-in-hose flowers in Sinningia (Gesneriaceae).
The Plant cell - 23 Dec 2024
Yang Xia, Liu Qi, Wang Miao-Miao, Wang Xiao-Ya, Han Meng-Qi, Liu Fang-Pu, Lü Tian-Feng, Liu Jing, Wang Yin-Zheng
Abstract excerpt
Plants bearing double flowers have long been cultivated as ornamental plants. Hose-in-hose flowers, bearing two-whorled corolla tubes in whorls 1 and 2, are uncommon but recur in Sinningia (Gesnerioideae, Gesneriaceae). In this study, we selected 15 hose-in-hose cultivars as materials to explore the underlying molecular and genetic mechanisms of this floral architecture. We found that they originated from...
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