FROM LEAF TO CARPEL. “Carpels, along with the other principal floral organs, have for long been postulated to be modified from a leaf ground plan. Relatively recent experimental evidence supports this view: floral organs are converted to leaves in plants in which all of the A, B and C function genes, or the redundant E-function genes, are inactivated.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022