9 Flower Colour
Annual Plant Reviews book series, Volume 20: Flowering and its Manipulation
III. A Developmental Genetic Model for the Origin of the Flower
Yoshikazu Tanaka,
Filippa Brugliera,
Yoshikazu Tanaka
Institute for Advanced Technology, Suntory Ltd, Osaka, Japan
Search for more papers by this authorFilippa Brugliera
Florigene Ltd, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
Search for more papers by this authorYoshikazu Tanaka,
Filippa Brugliera,
Yoshikazu Tanaka
Institute for Advanced Technology, Suntory Ltd, Osaka, Japan
Search for more papers by this authorFilippa Brugliera
Florigene Ltd, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
Search for more papers by this authorThis article was originally published in 2006 in Flowering and its Manipulation, Volume 20 (ISBN 9781405128087) of the Annual Plant Reviews book series, this volume edited by Charles Ainsworth. The article was republished in Annual Plant Reviews online in April 2018.
Abstract
The sections in this article are
- Introduction
- Flower Colour
- The Pigment Classes
- Anthocyanin Structure and Flower Colour
- Complexity of Blue Flowers
- Biosynthesis of Flavonoids
- Flower Colour and Mutations
- Evolutionary Aspects of Structural Genes in the Flavonoid Pathway
- Genetic Engineering of Flower Colour
- Concluding Remarks
- Acknowledgements
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