TY - JOUR
T1 - Molecular evolution of flower development
AU - Lawton-Rauh, Amy L.
AU - Alvarez-Buylla, Elena R.
AU - Purugganan, Michael D.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank V.F. Irish, G. Theissen, M.F. Yanofsky, R.J. Schmidt, B. Ambrose, D. Baum, J. Sundstrom and P. Engstrom for providing preprints of papers and for helpful discussions. We also thank Patrick Reeves, Richard Olmstead and three other anonymous reviewers for helpful suggestions. This work was supported in part by grants from UNAM, CONACYT and the Human Frontiers Program to E.A.B., and the National Science Foundation, US Dept of Agriculture and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to M.D.P.
PY - 2000/4/1
Y1 - 2000/4/1
N2 - Flowers, as reproductive structures of the most successful group of land plants, have been a central focus of study for both evolutionists and ecologists. Recent advances in unravelling the genetics of flower development have provided insight into the evolution of floral structures among angiosperms. The study of the evolution of genes that control floral morphogenesis permits us to draw inferences on the diversification of developmental systems, the origin of floral organs and the selective forces that drive evolutionary change among these plant reproductive structures.
AB - Flowers, as reproductive structures of the most successful group of land plants, have been a central focus of study for both evolutionists and ecologists. Recent advances in unravelling the genetics of flower development have provided insight into the evolution of floral structures among angiosperms. The study of the evolution of genes that control floral morphogenesis permits us to draw inferences on the diversification of developmental systems, the origin of floral organs and the selective forces that drive evolutionary change among these plant reproductive structures.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01816-9
DO - 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01816-9
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:0034177690
SN - 0169-5347
VL - 15
SP - 144
EP - 149
JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
IS - 4
ER -