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Citation for Study 12770

About Citation title: "Duplications and expression of RADIALIS-like genes in Dipsacales".
About Study name: "Duplications and expression of RADIALIS-like genes in Dipsacales".
About This study is part of submission 12770 (Status: Published).

Citation

Boyden G.S., Donoghue M.J., & Howarth D.G. 2012. Duplications and expression of RADIALIS-like genes in Dipsacales. International Journal of Plant Sciences, .

Authors

  • Boyden G.S.
  • Donoghue M.J.
  • Howarth D.G. (submitter) Phone 7189906269

Abstract

Evidence from Antirrhinum majus indicates that transcription factors CYCLOIDEA (CYC), DIVARICATA (DIV), and RADIALIS (RAD) play a role in specifying floral symmetry. In bilaterally symmetrical flowers CYC and RAD are implicated in dorsal identity, while DIV patterns ventral identity. In this study, we examined duplication events within the RAD-like gene family in Dipsacales and report the phylogenetic relationships of the RAD-like genes across Pentapetaleae. Like CYC-like and DIV-like genes, we found three Pentapetaleae clades of RAD-like genes: RAD1, RAD2, and RAD3, with AmRAD in the RAD2 clade. Unlike CYC-like and DIV-like gene families, only one of these duplications appears to have taken place around the diversification of the Pentapetaleae: RAD1 spans the monocots and eudicots, while RAD2 and RAD3 are Pentapetaleae specific. We found additional duplications within these gene clades in Dipsacales, especially within the Morinaceae, Dipsacaeae, and Valerianaceae, which also contain additional duplications in CYC-like and DIV-like genes. Using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), we show that most RAD copies are expressed across floral and leaf tissues in Lonicera x bella. DipsRAD2B (orthologous to AmRAD) is expressed in a dorsoventral pattern similar to DipsCYC2B, which is similar to the result in A. majus. We argue that this favors the hypothesis that a similar interaction between CYC and RAD may occur outside of the Lamiales.

Keywords

RADIALIS, floral symmetry, Dipsacales, gene duplication, core eudicots, gene expression, MYB transcription factors

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