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Article Title: A CYCLOIDEA-like gene mutation in sunflower determines an unusual floret type able to produce filled achenes at the periphery of the pseudanthium

Authors: Chiara Mizzotti, Marco Fambrini, Elisabetta Caporali, Simona Masiero, and Claudio Pugliesi

 

Citation: Botany, 2015, 93(3): 171-181, 10.1139/cjb-2014-0210

Source: www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjb-2014-0210#.U...

 

Fig. 7. Achenes and embryos of wild type (WT) and tubular ray flower (turf) mutant. (A) A turf inflorescence (side view) showing three fertilized achenes characterized by phytomelanin deposition. Involucral bracts were removed to reveal florets at the periphery of the inflorescence. (B) An empty achene from a WT ray floret (1), a fertile achene from a WT disc floret (3), and a filled achene from a tubular-like ray floret (2). (C) Heteromorphic zygotic embryos isolated from a mature achene at the periphery (tubular-like ray florets) (1) or from a mature achene of the first row of disc florets (2) in a turf inflorescence. Scale bars = 0.48 cm (A), 0.40 cm (B), and 1.28 mm (C).

 

Botany, NRC Research Press, a division of Canadian Science Publishing. www.nrcresearchpress.com/journal/cjb

 

 

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