The formation of flowers is one of the main models for studying the regulatory mechanisms
that underlie plant development and evolution. Over the past three decades, extensive …

Flowers are the most complex structures of plants. Studies of Arabidopsis thaliana, which
has typical eudicot flowers, have been fundamental in advancing the structural and …

Floral homeotic transcription factors (TFs) act in a combinatorial manner to specify the organ
identities in the flower. However, the architecture and the function of the gene regulatory …

Over the past three decades, several hundred genes with important regulatory functions
during reproductive development in angiosperms have been identified. While we do not yet …

Advances in the understanding of floral developmental genetics in model species such as
Arabidopsis continue to provide an important foundation for comparative studies in other …

The ABC model postulates that expression combinations of three classes of genes (A, B and
C) specify the four floral organs at early stages of flower development. This classic model …

The Arabidopsis thaliana flower organ specification gene regulatory network (FOS-GRN)
has been modeled previously as a discrete dynamical system, recovering as steady states …

Floral organs are specified by the activities of a small group of transcriptional regulators, the
floral organ identity factors. Extensive genetic and molecular analyses have shown that …

Flowers come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. Despite this variety, flowers have a
very stereotypical architecture, consisting of a series of sterile organs surrounding the …

Flowers are icons in developmental studies of complex structures. The vast majority of
250,000 angiosperm plant species have flowers with a conserved organ plan bearing …