Transference of function shapes organ identity in the dove tree inflorescence

New Phytologist

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 216-228

  Vekemans, Dries ^a   Viaene, Tom ^b   Caris, Pieter ^a   Geuten, Koen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bracts; Davidia involucrate; In situ hybridization; MADS box genes; Petaloidy; QRT PCR; Stamen identity; Transference of function

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

BIODIVERSITY; DICOTYLEDON; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; REAL TIME;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CORNACEAE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFLORESCENCE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREE; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHLOROPHYLL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFLORESCENCE; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NYSSACEAE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREES; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

DAVIDIA; DAVIDIA INVOLUCRATA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 82955212965     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03915.x     Document Type: Article

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