Abstract
Flowering plants exhibit two types of inflorescence architecture: determinate and indeterminate. The centroradialis mutation causes the normally indeterminate inflorescence of Antirrhinum to terminate in a flower. We show that centroradialis is expressed in the inflorescence apex a few days after floral induction, and interacts with the floral-meristem-identity gene floricaula to regulate flower position and morphology. The protein CEN is similar to animal proteins that associate with lipids and GTP-binding proteins. We propose a model for how different inflorescence structures may arise through the action and evolution of centroradialis.
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Bradley, D., Carpenter, R., Copsey, L. et al. Control of inflorescence architecture in Antirrhinum. Nature 379, 791–797 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/379791a0
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