Functional delineation of rice MADS29 reveals its role in embryo and endosperm development by affecting hormone homeostasis.

Abstract excerpt

Rice MADS29 has recently been reported to cause programmed cell death of maternal tissues, the nucellus, and the nucellar projection during early stages of seed development. However, analyses involving OsMADS29 protein expression domains and characterization of OsMADS29 gain-of-function and knockdown phenotypes revealed novel aspects of its function in maintaining hormone homeostasis, which may have a role in the...

Topics

• Cytokinins
• Endosperm
• Gene Expression Profiling
• Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
• Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
• Gene Knockdown Techniques
• Homeostasis
• Models, Biological
• Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
• Oryza