A parthenogenesis gene of apomict origin elicits embryo formation from unfertilized eggs in a sexual plant

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 36, 2015, Pages 11205-11210

  Conner, Joann A ^a   Mookkan, Muruganantham ^a,b   Huo, Heqiang ^a,c   Chae, Keun ^a   Ozias Akins, Peggy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AP2 transcription factor; Apomixis; BABY BOOM; Parthenogenesis; Pennisetum

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR APETALA 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PLANT PROTEIN;

APOMICT; APOMIXIS; ARTICLE; BABY BOOM LIKE GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PEARL MILLET; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CENCHRUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA MICROARRAY; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OVULE; PENNISETUM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOMIXIS; CENCHRUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OVULE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PENNISETUM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POACEAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84941236951     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1505856112     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Hand ML, Koltunow AM (2014) The genetic control of apomixis: Asexual seed formation. Genetics 197(2):441-450.
2. Barcaccia G, Albertini E (2013) Apomixis in plant reproduction: A novel perspective on an old dilemma. Plant Reprod 26(3):159-179.
3. Ozias-Akins P, Roche D, Hanna WW (1998) Tight clustering and hemizygosity of apomixislinked molecular markers in Pennisetum squamulatum implies genetic control of apospory by a divergent locus that may have no allelic form in sexual genotypes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95(9):5127-5132.
4. Gualtieri G, et al. (2006) A segment of the apospory-specific genomic region is highly microsyntenic not only between the apomicts Pennisetum squamulatum and buffelgrass, but also with a rice chromosome 11 centromeric-proximal genomic region. Plant Physiol 140(3):963-971.
5. Conner JA, et al. (2008) Sequence analysis of bacterial artificial chromosome clones from the apospory-specific genomic region of Pennisetum and Cenchrus. Plant Physiol 147(3):1396-1411.
6. Akiyama Y, et al. (2011) Evolution of the apomixis transmitting chromosome in Pennisetum. BMC Evol Biol 11:289.
7. Conner JA, Gunawan G, Ozias-Akins P (2013) Recombination within the apospory specific genomic region leads to the uncoupling of apomixis components in Cenchrus ciliaris. Planta 238(1):51-63.
8. Boutilier K, et al. (2002) Ectopic expression of BABY BOOM triggers a conversion from vegetative to embryonic growth. Plant Cell 14(8):1737-1749.
9. Kim S, Soltis PS, Wall K, Soltis DE (2006) Phylogeny and domain evolution in the APETALA2-like gene family. Mol Biol Evol 23(1):107-120.
10. El Ouakfaoui S, et al. (2010) Control of somatic embryogenesis and embryo development by AP2 transcription factors. Plant Mol Biol 74(4-5):313-326.
11. Horstman A, Willemsen V, Boutilier K, Heidstra R (2014) AINTEGUMENTA-LIKE proteins: Hubs in a plethora of networks. Trends Plant Sci 19(3):146-157.
12. Galinha C, et al. (2007) PLETHORA proteins as dose-dependent master regulators of Arabidopsis root development. Nature 449(7165):1053-1057.
13. Singh M, et al. (2010) Characterization of apomictic BC7 and BC8 pearl millet: Meiotic chromosome behavior and construction of an ASGR-carrier chromosome-specific library. Crop Sci 50(3):892-902.
14. Hanna WW, Burton GW (1992) Genetics of red and purple plant color in pearl millet. J Hered 83(5):386-388.
15. Butaye K, Cammue B, Delauré SL, De Bolle M (2005) Approaches to minimize variation of transgene expression in plants. Mol Breed 16(1):79-91.
16. Noyes RD, Wagner JD (2014) Dihaploidy yields diploid apomicts and parthenogens in Erigeron (Asteraceae). Am J Bot 101(5):865-874.
17. Dujardin M, Hanna W (1986) An apomictic polyhaploid obtained from a pearl millet x Pennisetum squamulatum apomictic interspecific hybrid. Theor Appl Genet 72(1):33-36.
18. Sherwood RT, Berg CC, Young BA (1994) Inheritance of apospory in buffelgrass. Crop Sci 34(6):1490-1494.
19. Dujardin M, Hanna WW (1989) Developing apomictic pearlmillet-Characterization of a BC3 plant. J Genet Breed 43(3):145-151.