Variations on a theme: flower development and evolution.
A recent study, comparing the maize SILKY1 gene to its well-characterized homolog APETALA3 from Arabidopsis, has provided some of the first evidence pointing to conservation of homeotic gene function between monocots and dicots.
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Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. vivian.irish@yale.edu
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