MADS-box gene literature
Angenent GC, Colombo L (1996) Molecular control of ovule development. Trends Plant Sci 1:228-232
Cacharrón J, Fischer A, Saedler H, Theißen G (1995) Expression patterns of MADS-box genes as studied by in s
itu hybridization. Maize Genetics Cooperation Newsletter 69:37-38
Cacharrón J, Saedler H, Theißen G (1998) Expression of the MADS-box genes ZMM8 and ZMM14 in maize infloresce
nces discriminates between the upper and lower floret of each spikelet (submitted)
Chung Y-Y, Kim S-R, Finkel D, Yanofsky MF, An G (1994) Early flowering and reduced apical dominance result f
rom ectopic expression of a rice MADS box gene. Plant Mol Biol 26:657-665
Chung Y-Y, Kim S-R, Kang H-G, Noh Y-S, Park MC, Finkel D, An G (1995) Characterization of two rice MADS box
genes homologous to GLOBOSA. Plant Science 109:45-56
Doyle JJ (1994) Evolution of a plant homeotic multigene family: toward connecting molecular systematics and
molecular developmental genetics. Syst Biol 43:307-328
Fischer A, Baum N, Saedler H, Theißen G (1995a) Chromosomal mapping of the MADS-box multigene family in Zea
mays reveals dispersed distribution of allelic genes as well as transposed copies. Nucl Acids Res 23:1901-19
Fischer A, Saedler H, Theissen G (1995b) Restriction fragment length polymorphism-coupled domain-directed di
fferential display: a highly efficient technique for expression analysis of multigene families. Proc Natl Ac
ad Sci USA 92:5331-5335
Greco R, Stagi L, Colombo L, Angenent GC, Sari-Gorla M, Pè ME (1997) MADS box genes expressed in developing
inflorescences of rice and sorghum. Mol Gen Genet 253:615-623
Kang H-G, An G (1997) Isolation and characterization of a rice MADS box gene belonging to the AGL2 gene fami
ly. Mol Cells 7:45-51
Kang H-G, Noh Y-S, Chung Y-Y, Costa MA, An K, An G (1995) Phenotypic alterations of petal and sepal by ectop
ic expression of a rice MADS box gene in tobacco. Plant Mol Biol 29:1-10
Mena M, Mandel MA, Lerner DR, Yanofsky MF, Schmidt RJ (1995) A characterization of the MADS-box gene family
in maize. Plant J 8:845-854
Meyerowitz EM (1994) The genetics of flower development. Scientific American 271:40-47
Münster T, Pahnke J, Di Rosa A, Kim JT, Martin W, Saedler H, Theißen G (1997) Floral homeotic genes were rec
ruited from homologous MADS-box genes preexisting in the common ancestor of ferns and seed plants. Proc Natl
Acad Sci USA 94:2415-2420
Purugganan MD, Rounsley SD, Schmidt RJ, Yanofsky MF (1995) Molecular evolution of flower development: divers
ification of the plant MADS-box regulatory gene family. Genetics 140:345-356
Riechmann JL, Meyerowitz EM (1997) MADS domain proteins in plant development. Biol Chem 378:1079-1101
Schmidt RJ, Veit B, Mandel MA, Mena M, Hake S, Yanofsky MF (1993) Identification and molecular characterizat
ion of ZAG1, the maize homolog of the Arabidopsis floral homeotic gene AGAMOUS. Plant Cell 5:729-737
Schwarz-Sommer Z, Huijser P, Nacken W, Saedler H, Sommer H (1990) Genetic control of flower development by h
omeotic genes in Antirrhinum majus. Science 250:931-936
Theißen G, Cacharron J, Fischer A, Saedler H (1994) MADS-box genes in
the evolution of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays). Proceedings of the 2nd Korea-Germany
Joint Symposium in Plant Biotechnology, Hong, J.C., Kim, M.J. (Eds), Chinju,
Korea: Gyeongsang National University of Korea, p 1-12
Theißen G, Saedler H (1995) MADS-box genes in plant ontogeny and phylogeny: Haeckel's 'biogenetic law' revis
ited. Curr Op Gen Dev 5:628-639
Theißen G, Strater T, Fischer A, Saedler H (1995) Structural characterization, chromosomal localization and
phylogenetic evaluation of two pairs of AGAMOUS-like MADS-box genes from maize. Gene 156:155-166
Theißen G, Kim J, Saedler H (1996) Classification and phylogeny of the MADS-box multigene family suggest def
ined roles of MADS-box gene subfamilies in the morphological evolution of eukaryotes. J Mol Evol 43:484-516
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