make up the sunflower family, also known as Compositae or Asteraceae. Today, members of the family are found on every continent except Antarctica, especially in temperate or higher elevation areas ...

How does the classical ABCE model of flower development apply in Asteraceae? The presence of three distinct types of flowers in its inflorescence (ray, trans and disc flowers) makes Gerbera a unique ...

A member of the Aster plant family (Asteraceae), it has the typical sunflower floral structure with yellow disks and ray ...

The sunflower plant family (Asteraceae) is characterized by head-like inflorescences (capitula) that resemble single solitary flowers but are typically composed of tens to hundreds of flowers that are ...

Sunflower domestication alleles support single domestication center in eastern North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 34:14360-14365. Kane NC, Zhan S, Barker MS, Rieseberg LH.

My lab is primarily interested in the genetic improvement of Asteraceae to benefit humanity ... to balance improvement in yield and nutritional aspects of the seed oil in sunflower (Helianthus annuus ...