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List of works by Rainer Melzer

A conserved leucine zipper-like motif accounts for strong tetramerization capabilities of SEPALLATA-like MADS-domain transcription factors.

scientific article published in April 2018

A double-flowered variety of lesser periwinkle (Vinca minor fl. pl.) that has persisted in the wild for more than 160 years.

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Apoplastic barriers, aquaporin gene expression and root and cell hydraulic conductivity in phosphate-limited sheepgrass plants

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Arabidopsis SEPALLATA proteins differ in cooperative DNA-binding during the formation of floral quartet-like complexes

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Cannabis sativa

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

DEF- and GLO-like proteins may have lost most of their interaction partners during angiosperm evolution

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DNA-binding properties of the MADS-domain transcription factor SEPALLATA3 and mutant variants characterized by SELEX-seq

scientific article published on 24 January 2021

Did Convergent Protein Evolution Enable Phytoplasmas to Generate 'Zombie Plants'?

scientific article published on 11 September 2015

Editorial: A Broader View for Plant EvoDevo: Novel Approaches for Diverse Model Systems.

scientific article published on 26 January 2017

Epigenetics: Possible applications in climate-smart crop breeding

scientific article published on 11 April 2020

Flowering Newsletter 2023

scientific article published in 2023

GORDITA (AGL63) is a young paralog of the Arabidopsis thaliana B(sister) MADS box gene ABS (TT16) that has undergone neofunctionalization

scientific article published on September 2010

Genome-wide analysis of MIKC-type MADS-box genes in wheat: pervasive duplications, functional conservation and putative neofunctionalization

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Loss of deeply conserved C-class floral homeotic gene function and C- and E-class protein interaction in a double-flowered ranunculid mutant

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Love is in the air: ethylene and sex determination in Cucurbita pepo

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

MADS and more: transcription factors that shape the plant

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MADS-box genes and crop domestication: the jack of all traits.

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

MADS-domain transcription factors and the floral quartet model of flower development: linking plant development and evolution.

scientific article published on September 2016

MIKC-type MADS-domain proteins: structural modularity, protein interactions and network evolution in land plants

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Missing Links: DNA‐Binding and Target Gene Specificity of Floral Homeotic Proteins

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Molecular interactions of orthologues of floral homeotic proteins from the gymnosperm Gnetum gnemon provide a clue to the evolutionary origin of 'floral quartets'

scientific article published on 16 September 2010

Molecular mechanisms underlying origin and diversification of the angiosperm flower

scientific article (publication date: September 2007)

Phenotypic variation from waterlogging in multiple perennial ryegrass varieties under climate change conditions

scientific article published in 2022

Reconstitution of 'floral quartets' in vitro involving class B and class E floral homeotic proteins

scientific article published on 10 March 2009

Regulation of flowering time: a splicy business

scientific article published in November 2017

Robust views on plasticity and biodiversity

scientific article published on 25 April 2016

Structural basis for the oligomerization of the MADS domain transcription factor SEPALLATA3 in Arabidopsis

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The class E floral homeotic protein SEPALLATA3 is sufficient to loop DNA in 'floral quartet'-like complexes in vitro.

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The floral homeotic protein SEPALLATA3 recognizes target DNA sequences by shape readout involving a conserved arginine residue in the MADS-domain

scientific article published on 04 June 2018

The naked and the dead: the ABCs of gymnosperm reproduction and the origin of the angiosperm flower.

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The seirena B class floral homeotic mutant of California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) reveals a function of the enigmatic PI motif in the formation of specific multimeric MADS domain protein complexes

scientific article published on 26 February 2013

The significance of developmental robustness for species diversity

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