Analyzing floral meristem development.
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.
Fiume
Elisa
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Plant Gene Expression Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture-ARS/UC Berkeley & Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Pires
Helena R
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Kim
Jin Sun
JS
Fletcher
Jennifer C
JC
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