Question

You have contacted a professor in the BCMB department about doing a research project in their lab. During your first meeting, the professor gets all excited about a gene that a graduate student in the lab had identified that is expressed only during a specific stage of development when their model plant switches from growing more leaves to making flowers. The professor thinks this gene is very important for this transition but analysis of the gene sequence did not reveal any similarity with known genes. Suggest an experimental approach that will allow you to determine the function of this gene in the plant

Answer 1

The ABC model of flower development is scientific model of the process by which flowering plants produce a pattern of gene expression in meristems that leads to the appearence of an oriented towards sexual reproduction . A flower have three physiological developments that must occur in order for this to firstly in plant must pass from sexual immaturity into a sexual mature state. Secondly the transformation of the apical meristem function from a vegetative meristem into a floral meristem or inflorescence and finally the growth of the flowers individual organs. the latter phase has modelled using the ABC model which aims to describe the biological basis of the process from a perspective of molecular and developmental genetics.