MADS8 is indispensable for female reproductive development at high ambient temperatures in cereal crops
Chaoqun Shen, Yueya Zhang, Gang Li, Jin Shi, Duoxiang Wang, Wanwan Zhu, Xiujuan Yang, Ludovico Dreni, Matthew R Tucker, Dabing Zhang · 2024
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Chaoqun Shen and co-authors found a gene that protects female flower parts in cereal crops at high temperature in a paper published in two thousand twenty-three. Heat can derail flower development and cut grain yield. Plants must keep their sexual organs stable as temperatures swing.
They knocked out a gene called MADS8 in both barley and rice. At high ambient temperature, mutants in both species formed extra carpels with no ovules. Marker studies showed the gene keeps the floral meristem on track and starts ovule formation. Its grip on target genes tightened with heat. The gene directly switches on two D-class floral genes. The role looks conserved across cereals.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chaoqun Shen, Yueya Zhang, Gang Li, Jin Shi, Duoxiang Wang, Wanwan Zhu, Xiujuan Yang, Ludovico Dreni, Matthew R Tucker, Dabing Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 67 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |