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T he role of EMF1 in regulating the vegetative and reproductive transition in A rabidopsis thaliana (B rassicaceae )
Author(s) -
Bai Shug,
Sung Z. Renee
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
american journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.218
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1537-2197
pISSN - 0002-9122
DOI - 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1995.tb11579.x
Subject(s) - biology , mutant , rosette (schizont appearance) , inflorescence , shoot , arabidopsis thaliana , microbiology and biotechnology , arabidopsis , embryo , botany , genetics , gene , immunology
To understand the genetic regulation of vegetative to reproductive transition in higher plants, further characterization of the Arabidopsis mutant embryonic flower1, emf1 , was conducted. Using three flowering symptoms, we showed that emf1 mutants could only grow reproductive and not rosette shoots under five different growth conditions. The mutant embryos did not produce the typical tunica–corpus shoot apical structures at the heart‐, torpedo‐, and mature stages. The divergent shoot apical development during mutant and wild‐type embryogenesis indicated that the wild‐type EMF1 gene was expressed in early embryogenesis. Mutations in the EMF1 gene affected the embryonic shoot apical development and caused the germinating embryo and regenerating callus to grow inflorescence, instead of rosette, shoots. Our results support the hypothesis that the EMF1 gene regulates the switch between vegetative and reproductive growth in Arabidopsis.