Zm401, a short-open reading-frame mRNA or noncoding RNA, is essential for tapetum and microspore development and can regulate the floret formation in maize

• Published in: Journal of cellular biochemistry Vol. 105; no. 1; pp. 136 - 146
• Main Authors: Ma, Jinxia, Yan, Bingxue, Qu, Yanying, Qin, Fangfang, Yang, Yantao, Hao, Xiujing, Yu, Jingjuan, Zhao, Qian, Zhu, Dengyun, Ao, Guangming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.09.2008
• Subjects: anther; development; Flowers - genetics; Flowers - growth & development; Flowers - metabolism; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; maize; microspore; Molecular Sequence Data; Nucleic Acid Conformation; Open Reading Frames - genetics; Phenotype; Plant Proteins - genetics; Plant Proteins - metabolism; Plants, Genetically Modified; RNA, Messenger - genetics; RNA, Untranslated - genetics; tapetum; Zea mays; Zea mays - genetics; Zea mays - growth & development; Zea mays - metabolism; zm401

In flowering plants, pollen formation depends on the differentiation and interaction of two cell types in the anther: the reproductive cells, called microsporocytes, and somatic cells that form the tapetum. Previously, we cloned a pollen specific gene, zm401, from a cDNA library generated from the m...