Functional analysis of Solanum lycopersicum L. MADS-box gene SlMADS5

Nezhdanova A.V.; Slugina M.A.; Dyachenko E.A.; Kamionskaya A.M.; Kochieva E.Z.; Shchennikova A.V.
Institute of Bioengineering, Federal Research Centre “Fundamentals of Biotechnology” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Highly conserved MADS-domain transcription factors play a decisive role during angiosperm flowering. Their combinatorial action is described by the ABCDE flower development model. E-class SEPALLATA (SEP) proteins determine flower organ identity and are the central hub of MADS-protein complexes. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) SEP3 homolog, SlMADS5, is involved in determining petal, stamen, and carpel identity; data on this gene function are limited. In this study, SlMADS5 functional characteristic was performed.Nezhdanova_SlMADS5