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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 59, Issue 8, Pages 2181-2190Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern083
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arabidopsis; floral reversion; floral transition; MADS; rice
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During. oral induction and flower development plants undergo delicate phase changes which are under tight molecular control. MADS-box transcription factors have been shown to play pivotal roles during these transition phases. SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE ( SVP) and AGAMOUS LIKE 24 ( AGL24) are important regulators both during the transition to flowering and during flower development. During vegetative growth they exert opposite roles on. oral transition, acting as repressor and promoter of flowering, respectively. Later during flower development they act redundantly as negative regulators of AG expression. In rice, the orthologues of SVP and AGL24 are OsMADS22, OsMADS47, and OsMADS55 and these three genes are involved in the negative regulation of brassinosteroid responses. In order to understand whether these rice genes have maintained the ability to function as regulators of flowering time in Arabidopsis, complementation tests were performed by expressing OsMADS22 and OsMADS47 in the svp and agl24 mutants. The results show that the rice genes are not able to complement the flowering-time phenotype of the Arabidopsis mutants, indicating that they are biologically inactive in Arabidopsis. Nevertheless, they cause. oral reversions, which mimic the SVP and AGL24. oral overexpressor phenotypes. Yeast two-hybrid analysis suggests that these. oral phenotypes are probably the consequence of protein interactions between OsMADS22 and OsMADS47 and other MADS-box proteins which interfere with the formation of complexes required for normal flower development.
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