Whipple, C. J., Kebrom, T. H., Weber, A. L., Yang, F., Hall, D., Meeley, R., Schmidt, R., Doebley, J., Brutnell, T. P., Jackson, D. P. (August 2011) grassy tillers1 promotes apical dominance in maize and responds to shade signals in the grasses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108 (33). E506-E512. ISSN 0027-8424
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Abstract
The shape of a plant is largely determined by regulation of lateral branching. Branching architecture can vary widely in response to both genotype and environment, suggesting regulation by a complex interaction of autonomous genetic factors and external signals. Tillers, branches initiated at the base of grass plants, are suppressed in response to shade conditions. This suppression of tiller and lateral branch growth is an important trait selected by early agriculturalists during maize domestication and crop improvement. To understand how plants integrate external environmental cues with endogenous signals to control their architecture, we have begun a functional characterization of the maize mutant grassy tillers1 (gt1). We isolated the gt1 gene using positional cloning and found that it encodes a class I homeodomain leucine zipper gene that promotes lateral bud dormancy and suppresses elongation of lateral ear branches. The gt1 expression is induced by shading and is dependent on the activity of teosinte branched1 (tb1), a major domestication locus controlling tillering and lateral branching. Interestingly, like tb1, gt1 maps to a quantitative trait locus that regulates tillering and lateral branching in maize and shows evidence of selection during maize domestication. Branching and shade avoidance are both of critical agronomic importance, but little is known about how these processes are integrated. Our results indicate that gt1 mediates the reduced branching associated with the shade avoidance response in the grasses. Furthermore, selection at the gt1 locus suggests that it was involved in improving plant architecture during the domestication of maize.
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | transposable element system leucine zipper protein axillary bud outgrowth molecular analysis zea-mays cytokinin concentration root emergence phytochrome-b arabidopsis gene expression gene control gene isolation gene locus grass grassy tillers1 gene maize molecular cloning nonhuman phenotype plant gene plant product priority journa quantitative trait locus shade sorghum teosinte teosinte branched1 gene |
| Subjects: | bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing organism description > plant > maize bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function organism description > plant |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Jackson lab CSHL Post Doctoral Fellows |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | August 2011 |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Feb 2013 14:20 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jan 2018 21:53 |
| PMCID: | PMC3158142 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/27216 |
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