Flowers contain the male and female sexual organs that are critical for plant reproduction and survival. Each individual flower is produced from a floral meristem that arises on the flank of the shoot apical meristem and consists of four organ types: sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels. Because floral meristems contain a transient stem-cell pool that generates a small number of organs composed of a limited number of cell types, they are excellent model systems for studying stem-cell maintenance and termination, cell fate specification, organ morphogenesis, and pattern formation.
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Fiume, E., Pires, H. R., Kim, J. S., & Fletcher, J. C. (2010). Analyzing floral meristem development. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.), 655, 131–142. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-765-5_9
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