Gene Details:

• Gene ID: Zm00001eb057540
• Gene Symbol: ZmMADS4 zmm4
• Gene Name: Zea mays MADS4
• Genome: Zm-B73-REFERENCE-NAM-5.0
• Species: Zea mays

Functional Descriptions:

• We show that dlf1 promotes maize floral transition by directly activating ZmMADS4 and ZmMADS67 in the shoot apex, providing novel insights into the mechanism of maize floral transition.
• ZMM4 (ZmMADS4) was reported to act genetically downstream of dlf1 with its overexpression inducing early flowering and reverting the mutant phenotype of dlf1 to wild-type
• ZmMADS4 and ZmMADS67, were further verified and found to function as positive regulators of maize flowering.
• Knocking out ZmMADS4 and ZmMADS67 both increased leaf number and delayed flowering, indicating that they promote the floral transition.

Function-related keywords:

• leaf ,  shoot ,  floral ,  flowering

Literature:

• dlf1 promotes floral transition by directly activating ZmMADS4 and ZmMADS67 in the maize shoot apex.   DOI:  10.1111/nph.16772 ;  PMID:  32579713
• Integration of high-throughput phenotyping, GWAS, and predictive models reveals the genetic architecture of plant height in maize.   DOI:  10.1016/j.molp.2022.11.016 ;  PMID:  36447436

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Gene Resources:

• NCBI ID: 542041
• UniProt accessions: Q84V71

Sequences: