Gene Details:

• MSU gene ID: LOC_Os10g33780
• RAPdb gene ID: Os10g0478000
• Gene Symbol: TAW1
• Genome: MSU7 ,  IRGSP-1.0
• Species: Oryza sativa

Functional Descriptions:

• In contrast, reductions in TAWAWA1 (TAW1) activity cause precocious IM abortion and spikelet formation, resulting in the generation of small inflorescences.
• We thus propose that TAW1 is a unique regulator of meristem activity in rice and regulates inflorescence development through the promotion of IM activity and suppression of the phase change to SM identity.
• TAW1 expression disappears from incipient spikelet meristems (SMs).
• TAW1 encodes a nuclear protein of unknown function and shows high levels of expression in the shoot apical meristem, the IM, and the BMs.
• We also demonstrate that members of the SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE subfamily of MADS-box genes function downstream of TAW1.

Function-related keywords:

• inflorescence ,  spikelet ,  shoot ,  spikelet-meristem ,  shoot-apical-meristem ,  meristem ,  vegetative

Literature:

• TAWAWA1, a regulator of rice inflorescence architecture, functions through the suppression of meristem phase transition .  DOI:  10.1073/pnas.1216151110 ;  PMID:  23267064

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Gene Resources:

• NCBI ID: AK243306
• UniProt accessions:

Sequences: