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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 105, Issue 1, Pages 136-146Publisher
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.21807
Keywords
zm401; anther; development; maize; tapetum; microspore
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30100014]
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In flowering plants, pollen formation depends oil the differentiation and interaction of two cell types in the anther: the reproductive cells, called microsporocytes, and somatic cells that form the tapetum. Previously, we cloned a pollen specific gene, zm401, front a cDNA library generated from the mature pollen of Zea mays. Expression of partial cDNA of zm401 in maize and ectopic expression of zm401 in tobacco suggested it play play a role in anther development. Here we present the expression and functional characterization of this pollen specific gene ill maize. Zm401 is expressed primarily in the anthers (tapetal cells as well as microspores) in a developmentally regulated manner. That is, it is expressed front floret forming stage, increasing in concentration up to mature pollen. Knockdown of zm401 significantly affected the expression of ZmMADS2. MZm3-3. and ZmC5, critical genes for pollen development; led to aberrant development of the microspore and tapetum, and finally male-sterility. Zm401 possesses highly Conserved sequences and evolutionary conserved stable RNA secondary structure in monocotyledon. These data show that zm401 could be one of the key growth regulators in anther development, and functions as a short-open reading-frame mRNA (sORF mRNA) and/or noncoding RNA (mRNA).
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