A new and unified nomenclature for male fertility restorer (RF) proteins in higher plants.

ABSTRACT: The male fertility restorer (RF) proteins belong to extended protein families associated with the cytoplasmic male sterility in higher plants. Up till now, there is no devised nomenclature for naming the RF proteins. The systematic sequencing of new plant species in recent years has uncovered the existence of several novel RF genes and their encoded proteins. Their naming has been simply arbitrary and could not be adequately handled in the context of comparative functional genomics. We propose in this study a unified nomenclature for the RF extended protein families across all plant species. This new and unified nomenclature relies upon previously developed nomenclature for the first ever characterized RF gene, RF2A/ALDH2B2, a member of ALDH gene superfamily, and adheres to the guidelines

SUBMITTER: Kotchoni SO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3011004 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature