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Nature 395, 545-547 (8 October 1998) | doi:10.1038/26858
Floral patterning: A LEAFY link from outer space
Ben Scheres1
The beautiful shape and colour patterns of flowers attract almost everybody, including developmental biologists. Studies of floral patterning have shown that the identity of floral organs is determined by a combinatorial code of homeotic genes, termed A, B and C, expressed in three separate regions of the flower1.
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