Conservation of class C function of floral organ development during 300 million years of evolution from gymnosperms to angiosperms

Plant Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 566-577

  Zhang, Pingyu ^a   Tan, Hugh T W ^a   Pwee, Keng Hock ^a   Kumar, Prakash P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cycas; Floral development; Gymnosperms; MADS box; Plant evolution

Indexed keywords

GENES; SEED;

ANGIOSPERMS; MOLECULATR MECHANISMS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYCAS; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; GYMNOSPERM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERMS; ARABIDOPSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCAS; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GYMNOSPERMS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; CYCAS; CYCAS EDENTATA; EDENTATA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 1342333395     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01983.x     Document Type: Article

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