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ToolsScutt, C.P., Li, Y., Robertson, S.E., Willis, M.E. and Gilmartin, P.M. (1997) Sex determination in dioecious Silene latifolia (Effects of the Y chromosome and the parasitic smut fungus (Ustilago violacea) on gene expression during flower development). Plant Physiology, 114 (3). pp. 969-979. ISSN 0032-0889
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We have embarked on a molecular cloning approach to the investigation of sex determination in Silene latifolia Poiret, a dioecious plant species with morphologically distinguishable sex chromosomes. One of our key objectives was to define a range of genes that are up-regulated in male plants in response to Y chromosome sex-determination genes. Here we present the characterization of eight male-specific cDNA sequences and classify these according to their expression dynamics to provide a range of molecular markers for dioecious male flower development. Genetically female S. latifolia plants undergo a partial sex reversal in response to infection by the parasitic smut fungus Ustilago violacea. This phenomenon has been exploited in these studies; male-specific cDNAs have been further categorized as inducible or noninducible in female plants by smut fungus infection. Analysis of the organ-specific expression of male-specific probes in male and female flowers has also identified a gene that is regulated in a sex-specific manner in nonreproductive floral tissues common to both male and female plants. This observation provides, to our knowledge, the first molecular marker for dominant effects of the Y chromosome in nonreproductive floral organs.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Plant Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Nov 2013 13:48 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Apr 2023 00:09 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/44148 |
| DOI: | 10.1104/pp.114.3.969 |
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