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Molecular genetic analysis of plant development and metabolism. Molecular genetics of reproductive biology in orchids. Leegood department of animal and plant sciences, university of sheffield, uk as research in plant metabolism and molecular biology continues to make great progress it has become essential for plant scientists to have an overview of both. Lea department of biological sciences, lancaster university, uk and richard c. This model, initially proposed in the early 1990s based on genetic experiments in antirrhinum and arabidopsis, is striking in its simplicity and is applicable to a wide range of angiosperm species, both dicots and monocots, including economically important grass. Most of the contrasts in their developmental strategies spring from two basic peculiarities of plants. Methods and protocols, expert researchers provide a collection of protocols for many of the common experimental approaches in plant developmental biology, including diverse methods that range from grafting over bimolecular fluorescence complementation to chromatin immunoprecipitation. This total includes many recently generated duplicates, however, so that the number of functionally distinct types of protein. The book takes examples primarily from model plants with wellstudied genetic systems, particularly arabidopsis and maize. Arabidopsis has one of the smallest plant genomes125 million nucleotide pairs, on a par with c. Molecular and genetic mechanisms of floral control plant. Climate change is posing a global threat to crop productivity, and understanding how temperature modulates developmental outputs at the molecular level is becoming increasingly relevant to crop improvement.
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