Emerging Model Organisms

The Genus Antirrhinum (Snapdragon): A Flowering Plant Model for Evolution and Development

  1. Yvette Erasmus
  1. University of Edinburgh, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, Edinburgh EH9 3JH, United Kingdom
  1. ↵1Corresponding author (andrew.hudson{at}ed.ac.uk)

INTRODUCTION

The Antirrhinum species group comprises approximately 20 morphologically diverse members that are able to form fertile hybrids. It includes the cultivated snapdragon Antirrhinum majus, which has been used as a model for biochemical and developmental genetics for more than 75 yr. The research infrastructure for A. majus, together with the interfertility of the species group, allows Antirrhinum to be used to examine the genetic basis for plant diversity.

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  1. doi:10.1101/pdb.emo100 Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2008: pdb.emo100-
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