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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Qu GZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3656909 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qu Guan-Zheng GZ Zheng Tangchun T Liu Guifeng G Wang Wenjie W Zang Lina L Liu Huanzhen H Yang Chuanping C
PloS one 20130517 5
In this study, a MADS-box gene (BpMADS), which is an ortholog of AP1 from Arabidopsis, was isolated from birch (Betula platyphylla). Transgenic Arabidopsis containing a BpMADS promoter::GUS construct was produced, which exhibited strong GUS staining in sepal tissues. Ectopic expression of BpMADS significantly enhanced the flowering of tobacco (35S::BpMADS). In addition, the chloroplasts of transgenic tobacco exhibited much higher growth and division rates, as well rates of photosynthesis, than w ...[more]