TY  - JOUR
A1  - Abdirashid, Hashim
A1  - Lenhard, Michael
T1  - Say it with double flowers
JF  - Journal of experimental botany
N2  - Every year, lovers world-wide rely on mutants to show their feelings on Valentine's Day. This is because many of the most popular ornamental flowering plants have been selected to form extra petals at the expense of reproductive organs to enhance their attractiveness and aesthetic value to humans. This so-called 'double flower' (DF) phenotype, first described more than 2000 years ago (Meyerowitz et al., 1989) is present, for example, in many modern roses, carnations, peonies, and camellias. Gattolin et al. (2020) now identify a unifying explanation for the molecular basis of many of these DF cultivars.
KW  - ABCE model
KW  - APETALA2
KW  - double flowers
KW  - flower development
KW  - homoeotic
KW  - mutants
KW  - microRNA172
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa109
SN  - 0022-0957
SN  - 1460-2431
VL  - 71
IS  - 9
SP  - 2469
EP  - 2471
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -