Article
Mutation in Torenia fournieri Lind. UFO homolog confers loss of TfLFY interaction and results in a petal to sepal transformation.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Sept 2012
Sasaki Katsutomo, Yamaguchi Hiroyasu, Aida Ryutaro, Shikata Masahito, Abe Tomoko, Ohtsubo Norihiro
Abstract excerpt
We identified a Torenia fournieri Lind. mutant (no. 252) that exhibited a sepaloid phenotype in which the second whorls were changed to sepal-like organs. This mutant had no stamens, and the floral organs consisted of sepals and carpels. Although the expression of a torenia class B MADS-box gene, GLOBOSA (TfGLO), was abolished in the 252 mutant, no mutation of TfGLO was found. Among torenia homologs such as...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Flowers
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Gene Knockdown Techniques
- Genetic Complementation Test
- In Situ Hybridization
- MADS Domain Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation, Missense