MADS-box基因家族调控植物花器官发育研究进展

Research progress of floral development regulation by MADS-box gene family

花器官的发生发育与形态构造是一个高度复杂的项目,涉及众多因素及其相互作用,MADS-box基因作为其中的关键转录因子可以改变整个发育过程,因而成为花器官研究最广泛的基因家族。通过梳理目前MADS-box基因对花器官发生、分化和形态建成方面的调控作用,为了解花发育程序和该基因家族的一般转录调控机制提供新见解,也为进一步深入挖掘该家族基因和完善花发育调控理论提供参考。

Flowering and floral development is a kind of highly complex project,which involved many factors and their interactions.As key transcription factors,MADS-box genes can change the whole development processes,so they have become the most widely studied genes in the researches of floral organs.Recent advances in the diversified functions of the MADS-box genes regulating flowering and floral development provided new insights into general transcriptional regulatory mechanisms that control floral developmental programs.Reviewing these advances,which can provide some useful references for further exploration of the varies functions of MADS-box genes and further complement of floral development theory.