Transcriptional profiling of Persea americana flowers

ABSTRACT: The debate on the origin and evolution of flowers has recently entered the field of developmental genetics, with focus on the design of the ancestral floral regulatory program. Flowers can differ dramatically among angiosperm lineages, but in general, sterile perianth organs surrounding stamens (male reproductive organs) and carpels (female reproductive organs) constitute the basic floral structure. However, the basal angiosperm lineages exhibit spectacular diversity in the number, arrangement, and structure, of floral organs, while the evolutionarily derived monocot and eudicot lineages share a far more uniform floral ground plan. As such, regulatory mechanisms underlying the archetypal floral plan, for instance that of the eudicot genetic model Arabidopsis thaliana, are unlikely to appl

ORGANISM(S): Persea americana

SUBMITTER: Andre Chanderbali 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-13737 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress