• Asrar H. Wafai
• amjad M. Husaini
• shoiab bukhari
• Asif Amin
• Taseem Mokhdoomi

Saffron is one of the most expensive spices in the world and its flower is unique in having stigma filled with apocarotenoids. The flower development in saffron is governed by MADS box homeotic genes. The stigma development in saffron flower is promoted by a C-class floral homeotic gene AGAMOUS (CsAG). The expression of CsAG began in yellow stigma and there was a considerable growth in its expression (16 folds) as stigma turned from yellow to Orange stage. The expression of CsAG gene continues to increase from orange stage to scarlet stage, where the stigma has fully developed. It was observed that expression of CsAG gene was in concordance with the development of stigma in saffron flower.

AGAMOUS, MADS box, Stigma.

"Relative expression analysis of CsAG gene during different stages of stigma development in Crocus sativus.L (Saffron)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 12, page no.272-274, December-2017, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1712051.pdf

"Relative expression analysis of CsAG gene during different stages of stigma development in Crocus sativus.L (Saffron)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 12, page no. pp272-274, December-2017, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1712051.pdf