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The Arabidopsis FLAKY POLLEN1 gene encodes a 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A synthase required for development of tapetum-specific organelles and fertility of pollen grains.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Jun 2010
Ishiguro Sumie, Nishimori Yuka, Yamada Miho, Saito Hiroko, Suzuki Toshiya, Nakagawa Tsuyoshi, Miyake Hiroshi, Okada Kiyotaka, Nakamura Kenzo
Abstract excerpt
The pollen coat is a surface component of pollen grains required for fertilization. To study how the pollen coat is produced, we identified and characterized a recessive and conditional male-sterile Arabidopsis mutant, flaky pollen1-1 (fkp1-1), whose pollen grains lack functional pollen coats. FKP1 is a single-copy gene in the Arabidopsis genome and encodes 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A synthase (HMG-CoA...
Topics
- Acyl Coenzyme A
- Arabidopsis
- Arabidopsis Proteins
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Bacterial
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Genes, Plant
- Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
- Mutagenesis, Insertional