Ma, H. (January 1998) To be, or not to be, a flower--control of floral meristem identity. Trends in Genetics, 14 (1). pp. 26-32. ISSN 0168-9525
Abstract
Sexual reproduction in higher plants occurs within the flower, which develops from the floral meristem, a specialized form of lateral meristems. The decision to become a floral meristem is highly regulated, and several genes controlling this process have been isolated. Some of these genes were shown to promote the floral fate precociously and ectopically when expressed constitutively. Furthermore, studies indicate the commitment to the floral fate is not a single switch, but a condition acquired progressively. Finally, genes controlling flowering time, at least in part, act through the floral-meristem-identity genes, and such interactions occur at multiple levels.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Arabidopsis/genetics/physiology Genes, Plant Meristem/ physiology Models, Genetic Plants/ genetics/growth & development Reproduction Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. |
| Subjects: | organism description > plant > Arabidopsis bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > tissues types and functions > meristem organism description > plant |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs |
| Depositing User: | Kathleen Darby |
| Date: | January 1998 |
| Date Deposited: | 01 May 2014 16:52 |
| Last Modified: | 01 May 2014 16:52 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/29911 |
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