The maize mutant narrow sheath fails to establish leaf margin identity in a meristematic domain.

doi:10.1242/dev.122.6.1683

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The maize mutant narrow sheath fails to establish leaf margin identity in a meristematic domain.

Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Jun 1996

Scanlon M J, Schneeberger R G, Freeling M

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The maize mutant narrow sheath (ns) displays a leaf shape and plant stature phenotype that suggests the preprimordial deletion of a leaf domain. The ns mutant phenotype is inherited as a recessive, duplicate-factor trait, conditioned upon homozygosity for each of the two unlinked mutations narrow...

Topics

Animals
Gene Expression
Homeodomain Proteins
Meristem
Morphogenesis
Mutation
Phenotype
Plant Leaves
Plant Roots
Rabbits
Zea mays

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