... examined the role of TAB1 in flower development. The ovule, which originates directly from the flower meristem, failed to differentiate in tab1 mutants, suggesting that TAB1 is required for ovule formation. Expression of a stem cell marker was completely absent in the flower meristem at the ovule...

... symmetric floral organ arrangements, which depends on the relative strength of dorsal-to-ventral inhibitions. CYCLOIDEA Bilateral symmetry Flower development Floral evolution Phyllotaxis Organ positioning Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 501100001700...

..., which, as described by the ABCE model of flower development, act in a combinatorial manner. However, how these transcription factors bring about this transformation process is not well understood. We have previously shown that floral homeotic proteins are involved in suppressing the formation...

... ( [email protected] ) Competing interests statement The authors declare no competing financial interests. 4 4 2012 © 2012. Arabidopsis miRNA Flower development The formation of boundaries between different cell populations is crucial for development...

... of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Competing interests statement The authors declare no competing financial interests. 19 3 2012 © 2012. AGAMOUS ANT AP2 APETALA2 DNA binding Flower development Fig. 6...

...François Parcy; Jan U. Lohmann The International Workshop on Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Flower Development took place in the secluded southern Italian village of Maratea in June 2011. This meeting, which takes place biennially, gathers researchers in the fields of flowering time and flower...

...Boyana Grigorova; Chloe Mara; Courtney Hollender; Paja Sijacic; Xuemei Chen; Zhongchi Liu Central to the ABCE model of flower development is the antagonistic interaction between class A and class C genes. The molecular mechanisms underlying the A-C antagonism are not completely understood...

... ) 25 3 2009 © 2009. 2009 Membrane trafficking ARF-GAP Abscission Floral organ shedding Flower development Arabidopsis Golgi Paramural Exosome A distinctive feature of plants is their remarkable ability to release entire organs such as leaves, flowers, fruit and seeds...

... redundant process involving loci with unrelated floral patterning functions. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 16 3 2009 © 2009. 2009 AGAMOUS Flower development Stem cells...

.... † Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) * Present address: Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa,Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada 6 2 2008 © 2008. 2008 Abscission BLADE-ON-PETIOLE Flower development INFLORESCENCE DEFICIENT IN ABSCISSION...

... expression. These results suggest a novel mechanism for promoting flower development via protein degradation and concomitant activation of the LFY transcription factor. This mechanism may be widely conserved, as homologs of UFO and LFY have been identified in a wide array of plant species. † Author...

... motifs. Mutagenesis of conserved cysteines within the ROXY1 protein demonstrates the importance of cysteine 49 for its function. Our data demonstrate that, unexpectedly, a plant glutaredoxin is involved in flower development, probably by mediating post-translational modifications of target proteins...

.... * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 14 9 2004 © 2004. 2004 CLV signaling Floral meristem FLORAL ORGAN NUMBER1 Flower development Rice The floral meristem in angiosperms produces floral organs in numbers and patterns that are characteristic...

... and Cell Biology, 30 Medical Drive,Singapore 117609, Republic of Singapore ‡ Present address: Plant Science Center, RIKEN, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045,Japan 11 5 2004 ©2004. 2004 PETAL LOSS ( PTL ) Arabidopsis Trihelix GT-factor Flower development Perianth...

... differentiation in a multicellular organism. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 25 3 2004 © 2004. 2004 Flower development HEN3 Cyclin-dependent kinase The shoot apical meristem (SAM) serves as the ultimate source of the above-ground biomass...

... to their intricate expression patterns rather than their functions as receptor kinases. Loss of the entire ERECTA family genes led to striking dwarfism, reduced lateral organ size and abnormal flower development,including defects in petal polar expansion, carpel elongation, and anther and ovule differentiation...

... that the exclusion of JAGGED from the cryptic bract is a cause of bractless flowers in Arabidopsis . * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 28 10 2003 © 2004. 2004 Arabidopsis thaliana Leaf development Bract development Flower development JAGGED APETALA1...

... flower development, we grew plants under short photoperiods (which delays flowering) for 30 days, and then transferred them to long days. In a pilot experiment, we had found that many flower-specific markers such as homeotic genes were not detected on day 0, but were robustly induced around day 6...

... initiation in the inner three whorls. UFO is expressed in a dynamic pattern during the early phases of flower development. Here we dissect the role of UFO by ubiquitously expressing it in ufo loss-of-function flowers at different developmental stages and for various durations using an ethanol-inducible...

... and Development . New York: Springer. Bowman, J. L., Alvarez, J., Weigel, D., Meyerowitz, E. M. and Smyth, D. R. ( 1993 ). Control of flower development in Arabidopsis thaliana by APETALA1 and interacting genes. Development 119 , 721 -743. Bowman, J. L., Smyth, D. R. and Meyerowitz, E. M. ( 1989...