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View Entry | Developing Arabidopsis flower buds3743| Flower development is a carefully orchestrated, genetically programmed process that ensures that the male (stamen) and female (pistil) organs form in the right place and at the right time in the flower. In this image of young Arabidopsis flower buds, the gene SUPERMAN (red) is activated at the boundary between the cells destined to form the male and female parts. SUPERMAN activity prevents the central cells, which will ultimately become the female pistil, from activating the gene APETALA3 (green), which induces formation of male flower organs. The goal of this research is to find out how plants maintain cells (called stem cells) that have the potential to develop into any type of cell and how genetic and environmental factors cause stem cells to develop and specialize into different cell types. This work informs future studies in agriculture, medicine and other fields. | | Public Note | | | | | Internal Note | | Researchers gave permission for public use of the image:
Meyerowitz, Elliot [meyerow@caltech.edu]
To: Spiering, Martin (NIH/NIGMS) [C]
Cc:
Machalek, Alisa Zapp (NIH/NIGMS) [E]?; Prunet, Nathanael E. ?[nprunet@caltech.edu]?
Friday, January 29, 2016 4:28 PM
Of course! The image was taken by Dr. Nathanaël Prunet in my lab, he should get the photo (and artistic) credit. Elliot
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Elliot M. Meyerowitz
George W. Beadle Professor of Biology
HHMI-GBMF Investigator
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
Mail Code 156-29
California Institute of Technology
1200 East California Boulevard
Pasadena, California 91125, USA
telephone: (626) 395-6889
fax: (626) 449-0756
email: meyerow@caltech.edu
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~plantlab/
http://www.computableplant.org
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On Jan 29, 2016, at 1:03 PM, Spiering, Martin (NIH/NIGMS) [C] wrote:
Dear Dr. Meyerowitz,
I am a writer and editor with the Office of Communication and Public Liaison at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Thank you again for contributing your eye-catching image of flower cells, which you provided to us earlier for our Life Magnified exhibition.
I am reaching out to you now because we also would like to include your award-winning photo of gene activity in Arabidopsis flower buds (athttp://www.faseb.org/portals/2/images/opa/BioArt/BioArt_2015_Prunet.jpg) in the Image Gallery on the NIGMS website (at https://images.nigms.nih.gov/).
As you know, images in the NIGMS image gallery highlight NIGMS-funded work and are made available to the public for use, provided that any users credit the creator, i.e., you, for this work. Would you give us permission to feature this image on the NIGMS Image Gallery in this way?
Thank you,
Martin J Spiering, PhD, ELS
Science Writer & Editor (contractor) | | | Keywords | | | | | Source | | Nathanaël Prunet, Caltech | | | Date | | 2016-02-02 00:00:00 | | | Credit Line | | Nathanaël Prunet and Elliot Meyerowitz, Caltech | | | Investigator | | Elliot Meyerowitz, Caltech | | | Record Type | | Photograph | | | Topic Area(s) | | ;#Cells;#Genes;# | | | Previous Uses | | | | | Status | | Active | |
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