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Nature 395, 545-547 (8 October 1998) | doi:10.1038/26858

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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.

  1. Ben Scheres is in the Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands.
    e-mail: Email: b.scheres@bio.uu.nl