… to flowering growth in response to seasonal changes in environmental conditions. Thus, we
… that MADS-box genes are critical elements of gene regulation that underpin diverse gene …

… Class ‘E’ genes and also to other classes of rice floral homeotic regulators that have partial
… mutants illustrate its significant role in FM identity and its determinate development in rice. …

… meristem formation in rice. However, … MADS-box family genes underlying palea development
have not been reported. We found a short palea mutant plant in a population of indica rice …

… gene and absent in eudicots, our data substantially expand our understanding of flower
development … osmads1-z flowers, with an increased number of elongated and leafy-like lemma/…

… that control the development of rice floral organs were identified and characterized in rice,
most of which belong to the MADS box gene family [7]. Plant MADS box transcription factors …

… of a common set of floral genes, such as B, C, and E floral homeotic MADS-box … rice AGL6
subfamily genes requires stable knock-out mutants of OsMADS17, and its double mutants …

… floral homeotic genes in specifying rice flower development, we constructed and analyzed
the double mutants … A half of a leafy lemma and palea of primary and secondary flowers were …

… MADS-box TFs are homeotic genes that have primarily been associated … floral organ identity
as shown in functional characterization of leafy hull sterile 1(lhs1), which carries a mutation …

… Inflorescence meristem identity in rice is specified by overlapping functions of three AP1/FUL-like
MADS box genes and PAP2, a SEPALLATA MADS box gene. Plant Cell 24:1848–59. …

… we characterized the rice (Oryza sativa) abnormal flower and grain1 (afg1) mutant, a … leafy
hull sterile1 is a homeotic mutation in a rice MADS box gene affecting rice flower development…