Fig. 4.

A model to explain the possible roles of various oil palm genes in the determination of flower structure in oil palm, as based upon the generic eudicot ABC model (Coen and Meyerowitz, 1991; Angenent and Colombo, 1996; Pelaz et al., 2000). In the top left-hand corner is shown a schematic representation of sequence relationships between the oil palm MADS box genes studied. Boxes are colour shaded according to homeotic functions as follows: yellow, A function; blue, B function; orange, C and D functions; green, E functions.