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Evolution of lateral organ development in land plants
Reference
G12006
Principal Investigator / Supervisor
Professor Jane Langdale
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Professor Robert Scotland
,
Professor Miltos Tsiantis
Institution
University of Oxford
Department
Plant Sciences
Funding type
Research
Value (£)
210,383
Status
Completed
Type
Research Grant
Start date
07/02/2000
End date
07/02/2003
Duration
36 months
Abstract
The development of leaves in a number of angiosperms is dependent on the down- regulation of knotted1-like homeobox (knox) genes that are normally expressed in the shoot apical meristem. In at least one monocot (maize) and one dicot (Antirrhinum) the maintained repression of knox genes is facilitated to further characterise the role of rs2- like genes in maize leaf development and to examine the phylogenetic level at which rs2/knox genes interactions were recruited to regulate the switch between indeterminate shoot development and determinate lateral organ (leaf) development. The results obtained will be also be used in determine the extent to which differences in specific rs2/knox gene interactions result in variations in leaf form.
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Committee
Closed Committee - Genes & Developmental Biology (GDB)
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