Mining plant diversity: Gerbera as a model system for plant developmental and biosynthetic research
| Autor: | Mika Kotilainen, Paula Elomaa, Victor A. Albert, Teemu H. Teeri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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0106 biological sciences
Gerbera Color Model system Developmental research MADS Domain Proteins Flowers Asteraceae 01 natural sciences Models Biological General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology 03 medical and health sciences Botany Cell Shape Phylogeny 030304 developmental biology Plant diversity Plant Proteins 0303 health sciences biology fungi food and beverages Biodiversity biology.organism_classification Sunflower Inflorescence Seeds 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology. 28(7) |
| ISSN: | 0265-9247 |
| Popis: | Gerbera hybrida is a member of the large sunflower family (Asteraceae). Typical of Asteraceae, Gerbera bears different types of flowers in its inflorescence. The showy marginal flowers comprise elongate, ligulate corollas that are female, whereas the central and inconspicuous disc flowers are complete, with both male and female organs. As such, Gerbera offers great potential for comparative developmental research within a single genotype. Moreover, different Gerbera varieties show an impressive spectrum of color patterns, directly displaying responses to developmental cues at all important morphological levels (flower type, flower organ and within organs). Further, Gerbera harbors an arsenal of Asteraceae-type secondary metabolites, not present in other model plants. With powerful reverse genetics methods, a large collection of EST sequences and a new cDNA microarray, Gerbera has become a model plant of the sunflower family. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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