Gene Details:

• Gene ID: TraesCS5A02G473800
• Gene Symbol: TaAQ
• Gene Name: TaAQ
• Genome: Chinese_Spring1.0
• Species: Triticum aestivum

Functional Descriptions:

• The TaAQ gene loss-of-function wheat mutants exhibited a speltoid-like spike phenotype, increased sclerenchyma cells in glumes, reduced glume angle, and enhanced glume tenacity.
• The results achieved in this study will help us to understand the regulating mechanisms of TaAQ and TaDq alleles on wheat floral organs and inflorescence development.
• We also analyzed the effects of TaAQ and TaDq on wheat spike shape and plant height.
• CRISPR/Cas9 editing of wheat TaQ genes alters spike morphogenesis and grain threshability.
• The TaQ alleles as one of the AP2-like transcription factors in common wheat (Triticum aestivum) play an important role in the evolution of spike characteristics from wild and domesticated emmer to modern wheat cultivars.
• TaAQ is thought to be a major regulatory gene for floral development and has a pleiotropic function in wheat domestication.

Function-related keywords:

• development ,  grain ,  plant-development ,  domestication ,  floral ,  inflorescence ,  height ,  plant-height ,  grain-shape ,  inflorescence-development ,  spike

Literature:

• CRISPR/Cas9 editing of wheat TaQ genes alters spike morphogenesis and grain threshability.   DOI:  10.1016/j.jgg.2020.08.004 ;  PMID:  33187879

Related News:

• JGG | 作物所叶兴国团队通过编辑小麦TaQ基因解析小麦穗型形成的分子机制

Gene Resources:

• NCBI ID: 543360
• UniProt accessions: Q5Y386

Sequences: