Then There Were Plenty-Ring Meristems Giving Rise to Many Stamen Whorls
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Regulation of Stem Cell Activity in the Floral Meristem
3. How to Generate Multiple Stamen Primordia
4. Ring Meristems in Eudicots
5. Are Ring Meristems in Dicots of Independent Origin?
6. Conclusions and Outlook
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Kong, D.; Becker, A. Then There Were Plenty-Ring Meristems Giving Rise to Many Stamen Whorls. Plants 2021, 10, 1140. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10061140
Kong D, Becker A. Then There Were Plenty-Ring Meristems Giving Rise to Many Stamen Whorls. Plants. 2021; 10(6):1140. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10061140
Chicago/Turabian StyleKong, Doudou, and Annette Becker. 2021. "Then There Were Plenty-Ring Meristems Giving Rise to Many Stamen Whorls" Plants 10, no. 6: 1140. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10061140