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An Arabidopsis female organ ectopically expressing a chromatin modifier.
The plant homeotic protein AGAMOUS controls the expression of the chromatin modifier GIANT KILLER, which fine-tunes the expression of multiple genes downstream of AGAMOUS in reproductive organ patterning and differentiation (see Ng et al., e1000251). A scanning electron micrograph of an Arabidopsis pistil shows that the ectopic expression of GIANT KILLER partially mimics the loss of function mutant of ETTIN (meaning "giant").
Image Credit: Kian-Hong Ng, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
Citation: (2009) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 7(11) November 2009. PLoS Biol 7(11): ev07.i11. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v07.i11
Published: November 24, 2009
Copyright: © 2009 Kian-Hong Ng. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The plant homeotic protein AGAMOUS controls the expression of the chromatin modifier GIANT KILLER, which fine-tunes the expression of multiple genes downstream of AGAMOUS in reproductive organ patterning and differentiation (see Ng et al., e1000251). A scanning electron micrograph of an Arabidopsis pistil shows that the ectopic expression of GIANT KILLER partially mimics the loss of function mutant of ETTIN (meaning "giant").
Image Credit: Kian-Hong Ng, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory