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- Title
Molecular mechanisms of flower development: an armchair guide.
- Authors
Krizek, Beth A; Fletcher, Jennifer C
- 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.
- Publication
Nature reviews. Genetics, 2005, Vol 6, Issue 9, p688
- ISSN
1471-0056
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrg1675