Journal
PLANT JOURNAL
Volume 51, Issue 5, Pages 840-849Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03181.x
Keywords
miR172; flower development; stem cells; B function; APETALA2; AGAMOUS
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM61146, R01 GM061146, R01 GM061146-07A1, R01 GM061146-08] Funding Source: Medline
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In Arabidopsis, two floral homeotic genes APETALA2 (AP2) and AGAMOUS (AG) specify the identities of perianth and reproductive organs, respectively, in flower development. The two genes act antagonistically to restrict each other to their proper domains of action within the floral meristem. In addition to AG, which antagonizes AP2, miR172, a microRNA, serves as a negative regulator of AP2. In this study, we showed that AG and miR172 have distinct functions in flower development and that they largely act independently in the negative regulation of AP2. We uncovered functions of miR172-mediated repression of AP2 in the regulation of floral stem cells and in the delineation of the expression domain of another class of floral homeotic genes. Given the antiquity of miR172 in land plants, our findings have implications for the recruitment of a microRNA in the building of a flower in evolution.
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