title: Analyzing floral meristem development.
abstract: Flowers contain the male and female sexual organs that are critical for plant reproduction and survival. Each individual flower is produced from a floral meristem that arises on the flank of the shoot apical meristem and consists of four organ types: sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels. Because floral meristems contain a transient stem-cell pool that generates a small number of organs composed of a limited number of cell types, they are excellent model systems for studying stem-cell maintenance and termination, cell fate specification, organ morphogenesis, and pattern formation.
authors: Plant Gene Expression Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture-ARS/UC Berkeley & Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
authors: Elisa
authors: E
authors: Fiume
authors: Helena R
authors: HR
authors: Pires
authors: Jin Sun
authors: JS
authors: Kim
authors: Jennifer C
authors: JC
authors: Fletcher
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000166:cytology / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D035264:Flowers / Q000166:cytology / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D018519:Meristem / Q000166:cytology / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D018613:Microscopy, Confocal / Q000379:methods; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning / Q000379:methods