Floral development of an asexual and female-like mutant carrying two deletions in gynoecium-suppressing and stamen-promoting functional regions on the Y chromosome of the dioecious plant Silene latifolia

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1450-1461

  Koizumi, Ayako ^a   Amanai, Yasuhito ^a   Ishii, Kotaro ^a   Nishihara, Kiyoshi ^a   Kazama, Yusuke ^a,b   Uchida, Wakana ^a,b   Kawano, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asexual flower; Dioecious plant; Female like flower; Floral development; Silene latifolia; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION; SILENE;

FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; SILENE;

SILENE; SILENE LATIFOLIA;

EID: 35348926032     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcm113     Document Type: Article

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