Open AccessDOT/UFO Emerges as a Key Factor in Inflorescence Patterning
Author(s) -
Nancy A. Eckardt
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.108.062869
Subject(s) - inflorescence , biology , meristem , indeterminate , indeterminate growth , key (lock) , botany , ecology , shoot , cultivar , mathematics , pure mathematics , ideotype
Flowering plants exhibit an astonishing variety of floral forms, which arise from two basic patterns of floral meristem initiation: determinate and indeterminate. Many indeterminate inflorescences show some variation of a racemose pattern, which maintains an apical meristem and produces flowers
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