The study of two barley type I-like MADS-box genes as potential targets of epigenetic regulation during seed development.

ABSTRACT:

Background

MADS-box genes constitute a large family of transcription factors functioning as key regulators of many processes during plant vegetative and reproductive development. Type II MADS-box genes have been intensively investigated and are mostly involved in vegetative and flowering development. A growing number of studies of Type I MADS-box genes in Arabidopsis, have assigned crucial roles for these genes in gamete and seed development and have demonstrated that a number of Type I MADS-box genes are epigenetically regulated by DNA methylation and histone modifications. However, reports on agronomically important cereals such as barley and wheat are scarce.

Results

Here we report the identification and characterization of two Type I-like MADS-box genes, from barley (Hor

SUBMITTER: Kapazoglou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3499179 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature