Flower Development: Methods and Protocols

by Josï Luis Riechmann (Editor), Frank Wellmer (Editor)

Overview

In Flower Development: Methods and Prools, researchers in the field detail prools for experimental approaches that are currently used to study the formation of flowers, from genetic methods and phenotypic analyses, to genome-wide experiments, modeling, and system-wide approaches. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory prools, and key tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls

Authoritative and practical, Flower Development: Methods and Prools is an essential guide for plant developmental biologists, from the novice to the experienced researcher, and for those considering venturing into the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493943401
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	08/27/2016
Series:	Methods in Molecular Biology , #1110
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Pages:	475
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Flower Development in Arabidopsis - There is More to it than Learning your ABCs.- Flower Development in the Asterid Lineage.- Grass Flower Development.- Flower Diversity and Angiosperm Diversification.- Flower Development - Open Questions and Future Directions.- Genetic Screens for Floral Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana: Enhancers and Suppressors.- Genetic and Phenotypic Analysis of Shoot Apical and Floral Meristem Development.- Genetic and Phenotypic Analyses of Petal Development in Arabidopsis.- Cell Biological Analyses of Anther Morphogenesis and Pollen Viability in Arabidopsis and Rice.- Molecular Cell Biology of Male Meiotic Chromosomes and Isolation of Male Meiocytes in Arabidopsis thaliana.- Genetic and Phenotypic Analyses of Carpel Development in Arabidopsis.- Microscopic Analysis of Arabidopsis Ovules.- Scanning Electron Microscopy Analysis of Floral Development.- Detection of mRNA Expression Patterns by Non-radioactive in situ Hybridization on Histological Sections of Floral Tissue.- The GUS Reporter System in Flower Development Studies.- A Floral Induction System for the Study of Early Arabidopsis Flower Development.- Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting of Shoot Apical Meristem Cell Types.- Translating Ribosome Affinity Purification (TRAP) for Cell-specific Translation Profiling in Developing Flowers.- Laser-assisted Microdissection Applied to Floral Tissues.- Identification of Arabidopsis Knock-out Lines for Genes of Interest.- Gene Expression Analysis by Quantitative Real-time PCR for Floral Tissues.- Misexpression Approaches for the Manipulation of Flower Development.- Next Generation Sequencing Applied to Flower Development: RNA-Seq.- Next-Generation Sequencing Applied to Flower Development: ChIP-Seq.- Live-Imaging of the Arabidopsis Inflorescence Meristem.- Gene Regulatory Network Models for Floral Organ Determination.