Development: Painting Flowers with MYBs.

Curr Biol

Systems Biology of Development Group, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Max-Planck-Ring 9, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; Modeling Tumorigenesis Group, Translational Oncology Division, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Otfried-Müller-Straße 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address:

Published: March 2020

Color patterns influence how attractive flowers are to bees, butterflies, and birds. By combining experiments and theory, a new study shows how a pair of MYB transcription factors orchestrates the formation of pigmentation patterns on monkeyflowers.

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