A sharp discovery

Elizabeth A Kellogg^{1

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Elizabeth A Kellogg. Science. 2024.

. 2024 Aug 2;385(6708):495-496.

doi: 10.1126/science.adr2473. Epub 2024 Aug 1.

Elizabeth A Kellogg^{1

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Abstract

Plant prickles are controlled by genes involved in the final step of cytokinin biosynthesis.

Convergent evolution of plant prickles by repeated gene co-option over deep time.
Satterlee JW, Alonso D, Gramazio P, Jenike KM, He J, Arrones A, Villanueva G, Plazas M, Ramakrishnan S, Benoit M, Gentile I, Hendelman A, Shohat H, Fitzgerald B, Robitaille GM, Green Y, Swartwood K, Passalacqua MJ, Gagnon E, Hilgenhof R, Huggins TD, Eizenga GC, Gur A, Rutten T, Stein N, Yao S, Poncet A, Bellot C, Frary A, Knapp S, Bendahmane M, Särkinen T, Gillis J, Van Eck J, Schatz MC, Eshed Y, Prohens J, Vilanova S, Lippman ZB. Satterlee JW, et al. Science. 2024 Aug 2;385(6708):eado1663. doi: 10.1126/science.ado1663. Epub 2024 Aug 2. Science. 2024. PMID: 39088611 Free PMC article.