Heterotopic expression of class B floral homeotic genes supports a modified ABC model for tulip (Tulipa gesneriana)

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 831-841

  Kanno, Akira ^a,b   Saeki, Hiroshi ^b   Kameya, Toshiaki ^b   Saedler, Heinz ^a   Theissen, Günter ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABC model; APETALA3; DEFICIENS; Flower development; Flower evolution; GLOBOSA; Liliaceae; MADS box gene; PISTILLATA

Indexed keywords

DIMERS; DNA; GENES;

FLORAL ORGANS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, HOMEOBOX; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TULIPA;

EUKARYOTA; LILIACEAE; LILIUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TULIPA; TULIPA GESNERIANA;

EID: 0041694044     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025070827979     Document Type: Article

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