Cloning and expression analysis of TSK1, a wheat SKP1 homologue, and functional comparison with Arabidopsis ASK1 in male meiosis and auxin signalling
Chijun Li A C , Yu Liang A , Changbin Chen A B , Junhua Li A C , Yunyuan Xu A , Zhihong Xu A , Hong Ma B and Kang Chong A DA Key Laboratory of Photosynthesis and Environmental Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, People’s Republic of China.
B Department of Biology and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, 405D Life Sciences Building, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
C Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China.
D Corresponding author. Email: chongk@ibcas.ac.cn
Functional Plant Biology 33(4) 381-390 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP06026
Submitted: 26 January 2006 Accepted: 2 March 2006 Published: 3 April 2006
Abstract
Plants possess multiple homologues of the SKP1 gene encoding an essential subunit of the SCF ubiquitin ligases, but only ASK1 (Arabidopsis SKP1-like 1) and ASK2 have been characterised genetically. In addition, little is known about the function of SKP1 homologues in monocots. Here we report on a winter wheat homologue of SKP1 named TSK1 (
Keywords: Arabidopsis, auxin response, meiosis, SKP1, TSK1, wheat.
Acknowledgments
The BA3-GUS seeds were kindly provided by Professor Athanasios Theologis (University of California, Berkeley). This work was supported by the Outstanding Young Research Fund of NSFC (30525026) and innovation grants from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as the Major State Basic Research Program of the People’s Republic of China (2005CB120806).
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