Article
The no apical meristem gene of Petunia is required for pattern formation in embryos and flowers and is expressed at meristem and primordia boundaries.
Cell - 19 Apr 1996
Souer E, van Houwelingen A, Kloos D, Mol J, Koes R
Abstract excerpt
Petunia embryos carrying the no apical meristem (nam) mutation fail to develop a shoot apical meristem. Occasional shoots on nam- seedlings bear flowers that develop ten instead of five primordia in the second whorl. Double mutants with the homeotic gene green petals show that nam acts independently of organ identify in whorl 2 and now also affects primordium number in whorl 3. The nam gene was isolated by...
Topics
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genes, Plant
- In Situ Hybridization
- Meristem
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Plant Proteins
- Plants
- RNA, Messenger
- Seeds
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid