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Abstract
Normal flower development requires the termination of stem cell activities in the floral meristem. The floral regulator AGAMOUS (AG) is necessary for this termination and represses the expression of the stem cell determinant WUSCHEL (WUS), but the repression mechanism was not clear. A recent study by Sun and colleagues (pp. 1791-1804) in this issue of Genes & Development has identified a direct target of AG, KNUCKLES (KNU), which encodes a transcriptional repressor of WUS, providing a key missing link in floral meristem determinacy.Mesh:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19651982 PMCID: PMC2720261 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1834409
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Genes Dev ISSN: 0890-9369 Impact factor: 11.361