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A common mechanism controls the life cycle and architecture of plants.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 May 1998
Ratcliffe O J, Amaya I, Vincent C A, Rothstein S, Carpenter R, Coen E S, Bradley D J
Abstract excerpt
The overall aerial architecture of flowering plants depends on a group of meristematic cells in the shoot apex. We demonstrate that the Arabidopsis TERMINAL FLOWER 1 gene has a unified effect on the rate of progression of the shoot apex through different developmental phases. In transgenic Arabidopsis plants which ectopically express TERMINAL FLOWER 1, both the vegetative and reproductive phases are greatly...
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