Expression of floral MADS-box genes in basal angiosperms: Implications for the evolution of floral regulators

Plant Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 724-744

  Kim, Sangtae ^a   Koh, Jin ^a   Yoo, Mi Jeong ^a   Kong, Hongzhi ^b,c   Hu, Yi ^b   Ma, Hong ^b   Soltis, Pamela S ^d   Soltis, Douglas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amborella; Basal angiosperms; Illicium; In situ hybridization; MADS box; Magnoliales; Nuphar; plant evolution; Relative quantitative RT PCR

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA;

AMBORELLA; BASAL ANGIOSPERMS; ILLICIUM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MADS-BOX; MAGNOLIALES; NUPHAR; PLANT EVOLUTION; RELATIVE-QUANTITATIVE RT-PCR;

GENES;

ANGIOSPERMS; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

AMBORELLA; AMBORELLACEAE; ANTIRRHINUM; ARABIDOPSIS; ASIMINA; AUSTROBAILEYALES; ILLICIUM; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIA; MAGNOLIACEAE; MAGNOLIIDAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NUPHAR; NYMPHAEACEAE;

MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANGIOSPERMS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 32944455453     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2005.02487.x     Document Type: Article

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