Saw a cool example on reddit of a disabled CYCLOIDEA gene causing the flowers that would specialize to become sterile ray florets to revert to tubular flowers instead! Paper in comment below!
Saw a cool example on reddit of a disabled CYCLOIDEA gene causing the flowers that would specialize to become sterile ray florets to revert to tubular flowers instead! Paper in comment below!
[Here’s](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41438-018-0056-8) a paper that mentions how the inactivation of a specific CYCLODIA gene, *HaCYC2c* in *Helianthus annuus* causes the ray florets to revert to tubular flowers! It’s probably some sort of very similar CYC gene disabled here!
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Is that what’s going on with this Gaillardia pulchella in my garden?
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[Here’s](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41438-018-0056-8) a paper that mentions how the inactivation of a specific CYCLODIA gene, *HaCYC2c* in *Helianthus annuus* causes the ray florets to revert to tubular flowers! It’s probably some sort of very similar CYC gene disabled here!
Is that what’s going on with this Gaillardia pulchella in my garden?
https://preview.redd.it/plapwdr2p2gf1.jpeg?width=3060&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9db284fb4f574c7c4c988ec7c45e95b292139e5
That’s so interesting! Are the tubular flowers sterile as well?