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12687001

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6932
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-4-10
pubmed:abstractText
Tillering in rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important agronomic trait for grain production, and also a model system for the study of branching in monocotyledonous plants. Rice tiller is a specialized grain-bearing branch that is formed on the unelongated basal internode and grows independently of the mother stem (culm) by means of its own adventitious roots. Rice tillering occurs in a two-stage process: the formation of an axillary bud at each leaf axil and its subsequent outgrowth. Although the morphology and histology and some mutants of rice tillering have been well described, the molecular mechanism of rice tillering remains to be elucidated. Here we report the isolation and characterization of MONOCULM 1 (MOC1), a gene that is important in the control of rice tillering. The moc1 mutant plants have only a main culm without any tillers owing to a defect in the formation of tiller buds. MOC1 encodes a putative GRAS family nuclear protein that is expressed mainly in the axillary buds and functions to initiate axillary buds and to promote their outgrowth.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
10
pubmed:volume
422
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
618-21
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Control of tillering in rice.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't