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The making of a compound leaf: genetic manipulation of leaf architecture in tomato.
Cell - 8 Mar 1996
Hareven D, Gutfinger T, Parnis A, Eshed Y, Lifschitz E
Abstract excerpt
The most distinctive morphogenetic feature of leaves is their being either simple or compound. To study the basis for this dichotomy, we have exploited the maize homeobox-containing Knotted-1 (Kn1) gene in conjunction with mutations that alter the tomato compound leaf. We show that misexpression of Kn1 confers different phenotypes on simple and compound leaves. Up to 2000 leaflets, organized in compound...
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