Altered expression of GFLO, the Gesneriaceae homologue of FLORICAULA/LEAFY, is associted with the transition to bulbil formation in Titanotrichum oldhamii

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 122-127

  Wang, Chun Neng ^a,b,c   Möller, Michael ^a   Cronk, Quentin C B ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bulbil; Evolution of development; Floral induction; Gemma; GFLO expression

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN GFLO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIRRHINUM; APICAL MERISTEM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOWN REGULATION; EXON; FLOWER; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; FLOWER MORPHOLOGY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENUS; HYPOTHESIS; INFLORESCENCE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT LEAF; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TITANOTRICHUM OLDHAMII; TOBACCO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERMS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANTIRRHINUM; ARABIDOPSIS; GESNERIACEAE; NICOTIANA; TITANOTRICHUM OLDHAMII;

EID: 1842640508     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-004-0388-2     Document Type: Article

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