Tipuana tipu (Benth.) Kuntze is a tree from the leguminosae family (Papilionoideae) indigenous in Argentina and extensively used in urbanism, mainly in Southern Brazil. The epicuticular waxes of leaves and branch, and flower surface were studied by high temperature high resolution gas chromatography. Several compounds were characterized, among which the aliphatic alcohols were predominant in br...

shown to also be required for specifying petal, stamen, and carpel identities, adding another layer of complexity to the ABC model (Pelaz, et al., 2000) (Fig. 1). These MADS-box gene products form ternary and quaternary complexes which could explain, at the molecular level, how these transcription factors coordinate their functions (Honma and Goto, 2001; Pelaz, et al., 2001). The expression pat...

We present a densely sampled phylogenomic study of the mulberry tribe (Moreae, Moraceae), an economically important clade with global distribution, revealing multiple losses inflexed stamens, character traditionally used to circumscribe Moreae. Inflexed stamens facilitate ballistic pollen release and are associated wind pollination, results presented here suggest that this state may have evolve...

Handeliodendron bodinieri has unisexual flowers with aborted stamens in female trees, which can be used to study flower development tree species. To elucidate the molecular mechanism of stamen abortion underlying sex differentiation, stage was determined by semi-thin sections; results showed that occurred 6 during anther development. In addition, differentially expressed transcripts regulating ...