Gene Details:

• Gene ID: Zm00001eb193790
• Gene Symbol: TU1 ZmMADS72
• Gene Name: Tunicate1
• Genome: Zm-B73-REFERENCE-NAM-5.0
• Species: Zea mays

Functional Descriptions:

• Dominant TU1 ears develop long glumes enclosing individual kernels.
• TU1 tassels develop large, coarse glumes and sex reversal,and both inflorescences become grossly vegetative and sterile in homozygotes.
• TU1 encodes a MADS box transcription factor influences inflorescence development.
• TU1 encodes a MADS box transcription factor expressed in leaves whose 5′ regulatory region is fused by a 1.8-Mb chromosomal inversion to the 3′ region of a gene expressed in the inflorescence.
• TU1 proteins are nuclearly localized in specific cells at the base of spikelet pair meristems.

Function-related keywords:

• transcription-factor ,  development ,  spikelet ,  vegetative ,  inflorescence ,  sterile ,  spikelet-development ,  inflorescence-development

Literature:

• Pod corn is caused by rearrangement at the Tunicate1 locus.   DOI:  10.1105/tpc.112.100537 ;  PMID:  22829149
• Evolution of cereal floral architecture and threshability.   DOI:  10.1016/j.tplants.2023.08.003 ;  PMID:  37673701
• Maize domestication and gene interaction.   DOI:  10.1111/nph.15350 ;  PMID:  30035321

Related News:

Gene Resources:

• NCBI ID: 542033
• UniProt accessions: C0HGC3

Sequences: