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Journal of Experimental Botany, doi:10.1093/jxb/erl097
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© The Author [2006]. Published by Oxford University Press [on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology]. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org
Received March 14, 2006
Accepted June 26, 2006

Major Themes in Flowering Research Special Issue

Functional conservation of MADS-box factors controlling floral organ identity in rice and Arabidopsis

Martin M. Kater 1 *, Ludovico Dreni 1, and Lucia Colombo 2

1 Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, I-20133 Milano, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, I-20133 Milano, Italy

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Martin M. Kater, E-mail: martin.kater{at}unimi.it


  Abstract

Studies on MADS-box genes in Arabidopsis and other higher eudicotyledonous flowering plants have shown that they are key regulators of flower development. Since Arabidopsis and monocotyledonous rice are distantly related plant species it is interesting to investigate whether the floral organ identity factors have been conserved in their functions, and if not, to understand the differences. Arabidopsis and rice are very suitable for these studies since they are both regarded as models for plant functional genomics. Both their genomes are sequenced and tools are available for the analysis of gene function. These developments have accelerated experiments and increased our knowledge on rice gene function. Therefore it is the right moment to perform a comparative analysis on MADS-box factors controlling floral organ identity as reported in this review.

Keywords: ABCDE model; Arabidopsis thaliana; evolution; flower development; MADS-box genes; Oryza sativa.
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