Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Review
. 2013 Nov;18(11):644-55.
doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2013.08.002. Epub 2013 Sep 2.

Inside the gynoecium: at the carpel margin

J Irepan Reyes-Olalde  1 , Victor M Zuñiga-Mayo, Ricardo A Chávez Montes, Nayelli Marsch-Martínez, Stefan de Folter
Affiliations
Review

Inside the gynoecium: at the carpel margin

J Irepan Reyes-Olalde et al. Trends Plant Sci. 2013 Nov.

Abstract

The gynoecium, which is produced at the center of most flowers, is the female reproductive organ and consists of one or more carpels. The Arabidopsis gynoecium consists of two fused carpels. Its inner tissues possess meristematic characteristics and are called the carpel margin meristem (CMM), because they are located at the margins of the carpels and generate the 'marginal' tissues of the gynoecium (placenta, ovules, septum, transmitting tract, style, and stigma). A key question is which factors are guiding the correct development of all these tissues, many of which are essential for reproduction. Besides regulatory genes, hormones play an important part in the development of the marginal tissues, and recent reports have highlighted the role of cytokinins, as discussed in this review.

PubMed Disclaimer

Similar articles

See all similar articles

Cited by

See all "Cited by" articles

Publication types

MeSH terms

LinkOut - more resources

  NODES
HOME 2
iOS 2
Javascript 1
os 16
text 12
twitter 2
web 4