A mutation in the pale aleurone color1 gene identifies a novel regulator of the maize anthocyanin pathway

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-14

  Selinger, David A ^a   Chandler, Vicki L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032696653     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.1.5     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Beckett, J.B. (1994). Locating recessive genes to chromosome arms with B-A translocations. In The Maize Handbook, M. Freeling and V. Walbot, eds (New York: Springer-Verlag), pp. 315-327.
2. Chandler, V.L., and Walbot, V. (1986). DNA modification of a maize transposable element correlates with loss of activity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83, 1767-1771.
3. Chandler, V.L., Radicella, J.P., Robbins, T.P., Chen, J., and Turks, D. (1989). Two regulatory genes of the maize anthocyanin pathway are homologous: Isolation of B utilizing R genomic sequences. Plant Cell 1, 1175-1183.
4. Coe, E.H., Jr. (1979). Specification of the anthocyanin biosynthetic function by B and R in maize. Maydica 24, 49-58.
5. Coe, E.H., Jr. (1985). Phenotypes in corn: Control of pathways by alleles, time and place. In Plant Genetics, M. Freeling, ed (New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc.), pp. 509-521.
6. Coe, E.H., Jr., and Neuffer, M.G. (1977). The genetics of corn. In Corn and Corn Improvement, 2nd ed, G.F. Sprague, ed (Madison, WI: American Society of Agronomy), pp. 111-223.
7. Coe, E.H., Jr., McCormick, S.M., and Modena, S.A. (1981). White pollen in maize. J. Hered. 72, 318-320.
8. Coe, E.H., Jr., Neuffer, M.G., and Hoisington, D.A. (1988). The genetics of corn. In Corn and Corn Improvement, 3rd ed, G.F. Sprague and J. Dudley, eds (Madison, WI: American Society of Agronomy), pp. 81-258.
9. Cone, K.C., Cocciolone, S.M., Burr, F.A., and Burr, B. (1993). Maize anthocyanin regulatory gene pl is a duplicate of c1 that functions in the plant. Plant Cell 5, 1795-1805.
10. de Vetten, N., Quattrocchio, F., Mol, J., and Koes, R. (1997). The an 11 locus controlling flower pigmentation in petunia encodes a novel WD-repeat protein conserved in yeast, plants, and animals. Genes Dev. 11, 1422-1434.
11. Fraser, A.C. (1924). Heritable characters of maize XVII. Intensified red and purple aleurone color. J. Hered. 15, 119-123.
12. Gilman, M. (1993). Ribonuclease protection assay. In Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, F.M. Ausubel, R. Brent, R.E. Kingston, D. Moore, J.G. Seidman, J.A. Smith, and K. Struhl, eds (New York: John Wiley and Sons), pp. 4.7.1-4.7.8.
13. Goff, S.A., Klein, T.M., Roth, B.A., Fromm, M.E., Cone, K.C., Radicella, J.P., and Chandler, V.L. (1990). Transactivation of anthocyanin biosynthetic genes following transfer of b regulatory genes into maize tissues. EMBO J. 9, 2517-2522.
14. Goff, S.A., Cone, K.C., and Chandler, V.L. (1992). Functional analysis of the transcriptional activator encoded by the maize B gene: Evidence for a direct functional interaction between two classes of regulatory proteins. Genes Dev. 6, 864-875.
15. Grotewold, E., Drummond, B.J., Bowen, B., and Peterson, T. (1994). The myb-homologous P gene controls phlobaphene pigmentation in maize floral organs by directly activating a flavonoid biosynthetic gene subset. Cell 76, 543-553.
16. Hanson, M.A., Gaut, B.S., Stec, A.O., Fuerstenberg, S.I., Goodman, M.M., Coe, E.H., Jr., and Doebley, J.F. (1996). Evolution of anthocyanin biosynthesis in maize kernels: The role of regulatory and enzymatic loci. Genetics 143, 1395-1407.
17. Hattori, T., Vasil, V., Rosenkrans, L., Hannah, L.C., McCarty, D.R., and Vasil, I.K. (1992). The viviparous-1 gene and abscisic acid activate the C1 regulatory gene for anthocyanin biosynthesis during seed maturation in maize. Genes Dev. 6, 609-618.
18. Hollick, J.B., Patterson, G.I., Coe, E.H., Jr., Cone, K.C., and Chandler, V.L. (1995). Allelic interactions heritably alter the activity of a metastable maize pl allele. Genetics 141, 709-719.
19. Holton, T.A., and Cornish, E.C. (1995). Genetics and biochemistry of anthocyanin biosynthesis. Plant Cell 7, 1071-1083.
20. Kermicle, J.L. (1970). Dependence of the R-mottled aleurone phenotype in maize on mode of sexual transmission. Genetics 66, 69-85.
21. Klein, T.M., Roth, B.A., and Fromm, M.E. (1989). Regulation of anthocyanin biosynthetic genes introduced into intact maize tissues by microprojectiles. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86, 6681-6685.
22. Larson, R.L., Bussard, J.B, and Coe, E.H., Jr. (1986). Gene-dependent flavonoid 3′-hydroxylation in maize. Biochem. Genet. 24, 615-624.
23. Lesnick, M.L., and Chandler, V.L. (1998). Activation of the maize anthocyanin gene a2 is mediated by an element conserved in many anthocyanin promoters. Plant Physiol. 117, 437-445.
24. Lorenz, W.W., McCann, R.O., Longiaru, M., and Cormier, M.J. (1991). Isolation and expression of a cDNA encoding Renilla reniformis luciferase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 4438-4442.
25. Ludwig, S.R., Habera, L.F., Dellaporta, S.L., and Wessler, S.R. (1989). Lc, a member of the maize R gene family responsible for tissue-specific anthocyanin production, encodes a protein similar to transcriptional activators and contains the Myc-homology region. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86, 7092-7096.
26. Ludwig, S.R., Bowen, B., Beach, L., and Wessler, S.R. (1990). A regulatory gene as a novel visible marker for maize transformation. Science 247, 449-450.
27. McCarty, D.R., Carson, C.B., Lazar, M., and Simonds, S.C. (1989a). Transposable element induced mutations of the viviparous-1 gene of maize. Dev. Genet. 10, 473-481.
28. McCarty, D.R., Carson, C.B., Stinard, P.S., and Robertson, D.S. (1989b). Molecular analysis of viviparous-1: An abscisic acid-insensitive mutant of maize. Plant Cell 1, 523-532.
29. Melton, D.A., Krieg, P.A., Rebagliati, M.R., Maniatis, T., Zinn, K., and Green, M.R. (1984). Efficient in vitro synthesis of biologically active RNA and RNA hybridization probes from plasmids containing a bacteriophage SP6 promoter. Nucleic Acids Res. 12, 7035-7056.
30. Mol, J., Jenkins, G., Schafer, E., and Weiss, D. (1996). Signal perception, transduction, and gene expression involved in anthocyanin biosynthesis. Crit. Rev. Plant Sci. 15, 525-557.
31. Patterson, G.I., Harris, L.J., Walbot, V., and Chandler, V.L. (1991). Genetic analysis of B-Peru, a regulatory gene in maize. Genetics 126, 205-220.
32. Paz-Ares, J., Ghosal, D., Wienand, U., Peterson, P.A., and Saedler, H. (1986). Molecular cloning of the c locus of Zea mays: A locus regulating the anthocyanin pathway. EMBO J. 5, 829-833.
33. Robertson, D.S. (1955). The genetics of vivipary in maize. Genetics 40, 745-760.
34. Sainz, M.B., Grotewold, E., and Chandler, V.L. (1997). Evidence for direct activation of an anthocyanin promoter by the maize C1 protein and comparison of DNA binding by related Myb domain proteins. Plant Cell 9, 611-625.
35. Selinger, D.A., Lisch, D., and Chandler, V.L. (1998). The maize regulatory gene, B-Peru, contains a DNA rearrangement that specifies tissue-specific expression through both positive and negative promoter elements. Genetics 149, 1125-1138.
36. Styles, E.D., and Ceska, O. (1977). The genetic control of flavonoid synthesis in maize. Can. J. Genet. Cytol. 19, 289-302.
37. Styles, E.D., and Coe, E.H., Jr. (1986). Unstable expression of an R allele with a3 in maize. J. Hered. 77, 389-393.
38. Styles, E.D., Ceska, O., and Seah, K. (1973). Developmental differences in action of R and B alleles in maize. Can. J. Genet. Cytol. 15, 59-72.
39. Tuerck, J.A., and Fromm, M.E. (1994). Elements of the maize A1 promoter required for transactivation by the anthocyanin B/C1 or phlobaphene P regulatory genes. Plant Cell 6, 1655-1663.
40. Wessler, S.R. (1994). Isolation of RNA from Wx and wx endosperms. In The Maize Handbook, M. Freeling and V. Walbot, eds (New York: Springer-Verlag), pp. 545-546.