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Acta Agron Sin ›› 2016, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (11): 1656-1665.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1006.2016.01656

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Cloning and Expression Analysis of ZmMADS-RIN Gene for Regulating the Kernel Development of Maize

XIA Xue, MA Chen-Yu, BAI Qing-He, FENG Yuan-Yuan, WANG Shun-You, WANG Xi, ZHOU Qing-Li, and XI Zhang-Ying*   

  1. College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University / State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Zhengzhou 450002, China
  • Received:2016-02-04 Revised:2016-06-20 Online:2016-11-12 Published:2016-07-04
  • Contact: 席章营,E-mail:xizhangying@163.com 第一作者联系方式:E-mail:xiaxue282522@163.com
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    ThisstudywassupportedbytheNationalNaturalScienceFoundationofChina(31371629).

Abstract:

Kernel development is the most important character of maize. In this study, a maize gene named ZmMADS-RIN encoding MADS-box protein relating to kernel development was isolated. The full length cDNA of ZmMADS-RIN is 859 bp, and it contains an open reading frame (ORF) with 768 nucleotides and encodes 255 amino acid residues. The variable analysis of ZmMADS-RIN in coding region showed that six nucleotides and three amino acid residues were different between Zheng 58 and B73. Bioinformatics analyses showed that ZmMADS-RIN was a hydrophilic protein with a molecular weight of 29.23 kD, a theoretical isoelectric point of 8.84, and five phosphorylation sites, but signal peptide sequence and transmembrane domain were not found. The secondary structure of ZmMADS-RIN protein contained 50.20% of alpha helix, 27.45% of random coil, 14.51% of extended strand and 7.84% of beta turn. ZmMADS-RIN protein was tested to be a typical MIKC-type protein localized in nucleus with highly conserved MADS domain, relatively conserved K domain, less weakly conserved I domain and most variable C domain. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that ZmMADS-RIN protein belongs to the same branch of AGL6, and shows high similarity of 89% to OsMADS6 protein from Oryza sativa. RT-PCR results showed that ZmMADS-RIN expressed in kernel specially, and not in root or leaf during different phases. In addition, qRT-PCR results indicated that the expression of ZmMADS-RIN increased continually from zero day to 20 days after pollination, and reached the highest level at the 20th day, then decreased significantly. And it could not be detected during 30th?40th days. These results demonstrated that ZmMADS-RIN might be associated with the regulation of developing kernel in maize.

Key words: Maize, Kerneldevelopment, ZmMADS-RIN, Genecloning, RT-PCR

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