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The ABC model of flower development is a scientific model of the process by which flowering plants produce a pattern of gene expression in meristems that leads to the appearance of an organ oriented towards sexual reproduction, a flower. There are three physiological developments that must occur in order for this to take place: firstly, the ...
Arabidopsis thaliana is a first class model organism and the single most important species for fundamental research in plant molecular genetics . A. thaliana was the first plant for which a high-quality reference genome sequence was determined (see below), and a worldwide research community has developed many other genetic resources and tools ...
Apetala 2 (AP2) is a gene and a member of a large family of transcription factors, the AP2/ EREBP family. In Arabidopsis thaliana AP2 plays a role in the ABC model of flower development. [2] It was originally thought that this family of proteins was plant-specific; however, recent studies have shown that apicomplexans, including the causative ...
Plant evolutionary developmental biology. Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) is the study of developmental programs and patterns from an evolutionary perspective. [1] It seeks to understand the various influences shaping the form and nature of life on the planet. Evo-devo arose as a separate branch of science rather recently.
Plant development. Important structures in plant development are buds, shoots, roots, leaves, and flowers; plants produce these tissues and structures throughout their life from meristems [ 1] located at the tips of organs, or between mature tissues. Thus, a living plant always has embryonic tissues. By contrast, an animal embryo will very ...
The ABC model of flower development. The first step of the transition is the transformation of the vegetative stem primordia into floral primordia. This occurs as biochemical changes take place to change the cellular differentiation of leaf, bud and stem tissues into tissue that will grow into the reproductive organs.
The genetics behind the formation of petals, in accordance with the ABC model of flower development, are that sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels are modified versions of each other. It appears that the mechanisms to form petals evolved very few times (perhaps only once), rather than evolving repeatedly from stamens.
Photo of the plant in bloom in 2000 at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami, Florida, US. An inflorescence, in a flowering plant, is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. [1] An inflorescence is categorized on the basis of the arrangement of flowers on a main axis ...