... within the flower. The presence of cardosins A and C in the initial stages of flower devel-opment is in agreement with the presence of cypros- in B in flower meristems, as the antibody used in the immunocytochemical ... cardosins A, C and D,which extends beyond the coding region (Fig. 3), and the relevance of the region of 529 bp in cardosin Aexpression may explain the ineffectiveness of the cardosin D flanking ... DiscussionCloning by library screening of four full-length genesencoding cardosins A, B, C and D precursors, togetherwith the cloning of a partial sequence of the cyprosin Bgene and the isolation of the...