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Article: Reports summarize plant physiology study results from E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.
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- Life Science Weekly
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- September 16, 2008
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According to recent research published in the journal Plant Physiology, "The switch from vegetative to reproductive growth is marked by the termination of vegetative development and the adoption of floral identity by the shoot apical meristem (SAM). This process is called the floral transition."
"To elucidate the molecular determinants involved in this process, we performed genome- wideRNAexpression profiling on maize (Zea mays) shoot apices at vegetative and early reproductive stages using massively parallel signature sequencing technology. Profiling revealed significant up- regulation of two maize MADS- box (ZMM) genes, ZMM4 and ZMM15, after the floral ...