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Published on: April 12, 2018
Molecular mechanisms of flower development: an armchair guide
Beth A Krizek1, Jennifer C Fletcher
1Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, 700 Sumter Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
Abstract:
An afternoon stroll through an English garden reveals the breathtaking beauty and enormous diversity of flowering plants. The extreme variation of flower morphologies, combined with the relative simplicity of floral structures and the wealth of floral mutants available, has made the flower an excellent model for studying developmental cell-fate specification, morphogenesis and tissue patterning. Recent molecular genetic studies have begun to reveal the transcriptional regulatory cascades that control early patterning events during flower formation, the dynamics of the gene-regulatory interactions, and the complex combinatorial mechanisms that create a distinct final floral architecture and form.
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