Duplicate FLORICAULA/LEAFY homologs zfl1 and zfl2 control inflorescence architecture and flower patterning in maize

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2385-2395

  Bomblies, Kirsten ^a   Wang, Rong Lin ^b   Ambrose, Barbara A ^c,e   Schmidt, Robert J ^c   Meeley, Robert B ^d   Doebley, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SYNGENTA BIOTECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Crop Genetics Research   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

FLORICAULA; Inflorescence architecture; LEAFY; Maize

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN ZFL1; PROTEIN ZFL2; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; FLOWER MORPHOLOGY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INFLORESCENCE; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASE TRANSITION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, PLANT; GENOTYPE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS); ZEA MAYS;

ANTIRRHINUM; ARABIDOPSIS; DICOTYLEDONEAE; INSERTION SEQUENCES; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TRANSPOSONS; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0038686862     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00457     Document Type: Review

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