The Plant Cell, Vol. 13, 1865-1875,
August 2001, Copyright © 2001,
American Society of Plant Biologists
EMF1, A Novel Protein Involved in the Control of Shoot Architecture and Flowering in Arabidopsis
Dominique Aubert1,2,,a,
Lingjing Chen1,a,
Yong-Hwan Moon1,a,
David Martin3,a,
Linda A. Castle4,a,
Chang-Hsien Yangb and
Z. Renee Sung5,a
a Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
b Graduate Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan 40227, Republic of China
5 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail zrsung{at}nature.berkeley.edu; fax 510-642-4995
Shoot architecture and flowering time in angiosperms depend on the balanced expression of a large number of flowering time and flower meristem identity genes. Loss-of-function mutations in the Arabidopsis EMBRYONIC FLOWER (EMF) genes cause Arabidopsis to eliminate rosette shoot growth and transform the apical meristem from indeterminate to determinate growth by producing a single terminal flower on all nodes. We have identified the EMF1 gene by positional cloning. The deduced polypeptide has no homology with any protein of known function except a putative protein in the rice genome with which EMF1 shares common motifs that include nuclear localization signals, P-loop, and LXXLL elements. Alteration of EMF1 expression in transgenic plants caused progressive changes in flowering time, shoot determinacy, and inflorescence architecture. EMF1 and its related sequence may belong to a new class of proteins that function as transcriptional regulators of phase transition during shoot development.
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