Fruit Development: Turning Sticks into Hearts

Cristina Ferrandiz

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.030

Fruit Development: Turning Sticks into Hearts

Curr Biol. 2019 May 6;29(9):R337-R339. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.030.

Author

Cristina Ferrandiz¹

Affiliation

¹ Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia 46022, Spain. Electronic address: cferrandiz@ibmcp.upv.es.

PMID: 31063729
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.030

Abstract

Fruit morphological diversity reflects the versatility of these angiosperm-specific structures, which facilitate plant progeny dispersal from their sessile parents. A recent study links regulatory changes in a key genetic network for fruit patterning with the origin of heart-shaped pods in Brassicaceae.

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MeSH terms

Brassicaceae*
Capsella*
Fruit
Gene Regulatory Networks
Magnoliopsida*