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NATURE PLANTS
Volume 5, Issue 9, Pages 917-923Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-019-0498-5
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- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB27010304]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31330007, 91631308]
- CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams
- National Ten-Thousand Talents Program of China
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We all appreciate the fantastic diversity of flowers. How flowers diversified, however, remains largely enigmatic. The mechanisms underlying the diversification of flowers are complex because the overall appearance of a flower is determined by many factors, such as the shape and size of its receptacle, and the arrangement, number, type, shape and colour of floral organs. Modifications of the developmental trajectories of a flower and its components, therefore, can lead to the generation of new floral types. In this Review, by summarizing the recent progress in studying the initiation, identity determination, morphogenesis and maturation of floral organs, we present our current understanding of the mechanisms underlying the diversification of flowers.
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