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Both the expression pattern of photosynthetic genes and the low rate of carbon fixation in husks suggest that these are distinctive organs.
Clothes are public husks, they shift on and off your body and in and out of fashion and your life; you can hide your alternate selves, or your mistakes, in the back of the closet.
The close relationship of husks to maize floral organs shown by gene-expression profiles suggests that husks could be considered as photosynthetic floral organs arising from an inflorescence meristem.
Of the flower-related genes, 32 are expressed at high levels in husks (Figure 2, node c).
Consistent with the hybridization results, one MADS box gene, ZAP1, has been reported to be expressed in the sterile organs of maize florets and in husks [ 15].