Journal article

Publication year: 2017

Pages: 361-366

Journal: New Phytologist

Volume number: 216

Issue number: 2

ISSN: 0028-646X

eISSN: 1469-8137

Open access status: Bronze

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14401

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 

Ranunculales, the sister group to all other eudicots, encompasses species with a remarkable floral diversity, which are currently emerging as new model organisms to address questions relating to the genetic architecture of flower morphology and its evolution. These questions concern either traits only found in members of the Ranunculales or traits that have convergently evolved in other large clades of flowering plants. We present recent results obtained on floral organ identity and number, symmetry evolution and spur formation in Ranunculales species. We discuss benefits and future prospects of evo‐devo studies in Ranunculales, which can provide the opportunity to decipher the genetic architecture of novel floral traits and also to appraise the degree of conservation of genetic mechanisms involved in homoplasious traits.

Harvard Citation style: Damerval, C. and Becker, A. (2017) Genetics of flower development in Ranunculales – a new, basal eudicot model order for studying flower evolution, New Phytologist, 216(2), pp. 361-366. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14401

APA Citation style: Damerval, C., & Becker, A. (2017). Genetics of flower development in Ranunculales – a new, basal eudicot model order for studying flower evolution. New Phytologist. 216(2), 361-366. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14401