The logic of the floral transition: Reverse-engineering the switch controlling the identity of lateral organs.

ABSTRACT: Much laboratory work has been carried out to determine the gene regulatory network (GRN) that results in plant cells becoming flowers instead of leaves. However, this also involves the spatial distribution of different cell types, and poses the question of whether alternative networks could produce the same set of observed results. This issue has been addressed here through a survey of the published intercellular distribution of expressed regulatory genes and techniques both developed and applied to Boolean network models. This has uncovered a large number of models which are compatible with the currently available data. An exhaustive exploration had some success but proved to be unfeasible due to the massive number of alternative models, so genetic programming algorithms have also been em

SUBMITTER: Dinh JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5624648 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature