Book Chapter
Flowers
JL Bowman, DR Smyth, JP Hill, EM Lord, S Craig, A Chaudhary, AR Davis, M Koorneef, K Okada, Y Shimura, J Alvarez, G Bossinger, D Weigel, EM Meyerowitz, SE Clark, H Sakai, W Crone
Arabidopsis | Springer New York | Published : 1994
Abstract
Arabidopsis thaliana is a rosette annual with separate vegetative and reproductive growth phases. The apical meristem that produced leaves in the vegetative phase switches to producing flowers in the reproductive phase. Thus, the vegetative meristem is apparently converted directly into an inflorescence meristem, which produces the primary inflorescence shoot. There appears to be no fundamental difference in organization between the two types of meristems and the distinction between them may merely be a slight change in shape and the difference in identity of lateral meristems they produce (leaf versus flower). Following germination, the apical meristem produces leaves with little elongation..
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