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Gene expression regulation in plants. (Coen, 1996). Federico D. ARIEL 2014. Animal embryogenesis. Plant embryogenesis and post embryonic development. The shoot apical meristem (SAM ). First steps of plant development. The shoot apical meristem. WUSCHEL maintains the SAM.
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Gene expressionregulation in plants (Coen, 1996) Federico D. ARIEL 2014
Theshoot apical meristem WUSCHEL maintainstheSAM
Sepals • Petals • Stamens • Carpels Flowerorgans are organized in whorls
Sepals Activity A Stamens Act. B + C Petals Act. A + B Carpels ActivityC Act. A Act. C ABCE model Thewar of thewhorls: geneticinteractionscontrollingflowerdevelopment Enrico S. Coen & Elliot M. Meyerowitz (1996)
LEAFY + The ABCE Model ActivityA:APETALA1 (AP1); APETALA2 (AP2) ActivityB:APETALA3 (AP3); PISTILLATA (PI) Activity C: AGAMOUS (AG) ActivityE: SEPALLATA(SEP)
AP1 (A) Whorls1 y 2 + FT + UFO AP3 (B) Whorls2 y 3 LEAFY + WUS AG (C) Whorls3 y 4
Someexercises 1. Predictthephenotype of thefollowingmutantplants: a) agamous (AG) b) apetala2 (AP2) c) pistillata (PI) d) agamous – apetala2 e) agamous – apetala2 – apetala3 2. Whatphenotypewouldresultfromthetransformation of ArabidopsisplantswiththeconstructPromLFY::miRNA172? 3. Whatphenotypewouldresultfromthetransformation of ArabidopsisplantswiththeconstructPromAG::UFO?
AP1 (A) Whorls1 y 2 + FT + UFO AP3 andPI (B) Whorls2 y 3 LEAFY + WUS AG (C) Whorls3 y 4 WUSCHEL isalsoexpressed in whorls1, 2 y 3
ActivityC Flowerswith Sepals and Petals Themersitempersists and WUSCHELremainsexpressed Relationbetween WUSCHEL and AGAMOUS agamous WUSCHEL
- WUSCHEL AGAMOUS AGAMOUS WUSCHEL + WUSCHEL-AGAMOUS Summing up: When AGAMOUS respressesWUSCHEL, themeristematiccellsdifferenciatetogeneratetheCarpels