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Genetic control of floral development in selected species

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Genetic control of self-incompatibility and reproductive development in flowering plants

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The genetic control of floral development has been a field which has seen remarkable progress in recent years, largely due to the efforts of Meyerowitz and Coen and their colleagues, working with Arabidopsis thaliana and Antirrhinum majus, respectively. The research has developed consistent testable genetic models of the control of the identity of the organs in the floral whorls. It has also led to the molecular cloning of several of these loci with subsequent identification of some of the gene products as transcription factors. This research has been inspiring, and has lead to a resurgence of mutational analysis of a number of aspects of floral development, beyond the genes that control organ identity within the floral whorls.

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Trull, M.C., Malmberg, R.L. (1994). Genetic control of floral development in selected species. In: Williams, E.G., Clarke, A.E., Knox, R.B. (eds) Genetic control of self-incompatibility and reproductive development in flowering plants. Advances in Cellular and Molecular Biology of Plants, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1669-7_13

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