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doi: 10.1242/10.1242/dev.00336
351 Koshland Hall, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: freeling{at}nature.berkeley.edu)
Accepted 28 November 2002
The architecture of maize inflorescences, the male tassel and the female ear, is defined by a series of reiterative branching events. The inflorescence meristem initiates spikelet pair meristems. These in turn initiate spikelet meristems which finally produce the floret meristems. After initiating one meristem, the spikelet pair and spikelet meristem convert into spikelet and floret meristems, respectively. The phenotype of reversed germ orientation1 (rgo1) mutants is the production of an increased number of floret meristems by each spikelet meristem. The visible phenotypes include increased numbers of flowers in tassel and ear spikelets, disrupted rowing in the ear, fused kernels, and kernels with embryos facing the base of the ear, the opposite orientation observed in wild-type ears. rgo1 behaves as single recessive mutant. indeterminate spikelet1 (ids1) is an unlinked recessive mutant that has a similar phenotype to rgo1. Plants heterozygous for both rgo1 and ids1 exhibit nonallelic noncomplementation; these mutants fail to complement each other. Plants homozygous for both mutations have more severe phenotypes than either of the single mutants; the progression of meristem identities is retarded and sometimes even reversed. In addition, in rgo1; ids1 double mutants extra branching is observed in spikelet pair meristems, a meristem that is not affected by mutants of either gene individually. These data suggest a model for control of meristem identity and determinacy in which the progress through meristem identities is mediated by a dosage-sensitive pathway. This pathway is combinatorially controlled by at least two genes that have overlapping functions.
Key words: rgo, Maize inflorescence development, Nonallelic noncomplementation, Spikelet, Meristem identity, Gene dosage, ids1
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