Dear Editor, Forward genetic screens are commonly used as unbiased tools to isolate genes responsible for a phenotype of interest. In Arabidopsis thaliana, especially T-DNA activation tagging pop- ulations are freque...Dear Editor, Forward genetic screens are commonly used as unbiased tools to isolate genes responsible for a phenotype of interest. In Arabidopsis thaliana, especially T-DNA activation tagging pop- ulations are frequently employed. These populations are gener- ated using vectors containing multiple copies of the constitutive 35S promoters derived from cau and often result in isolation i flower mosaic virus （35S CaMV） of dominant gain-of-function alleles （Weigel et al., 2000; Nakazawa et al., 2003）. This allows the study of members of large gene families that are often func- tionally redundant and, therefore, hard to identify in loss-of- function screens. Moreover, due to the dominant nature,展开更多
文摘Dear Editor, Forward genetic screens are commonly used as unbiased tools to isolate genes responsible for a phenotype of interest. In Arabidopsis thaliana, especially T-DNA activation tagging pop- ulations are frequently employed. These populations are gener- ated using vectors containing multiple copies of the constitutive 35S promoters derived from cau and often result in isolation i flower mosaic virus （35S CaMV） of dominant gain-of-function alleles （Weigel et al., 2000; Nakazawa et al., 2003）. This allows the study of members of large gene families that are often func- tionally redundant and, therefore, hard to identify in loss-of- function screens. Moreover, due to the dominant nature,
