- Information
- Symbol: RTS
- MSU: LOC_Os01g70440
- RAPdb: Os01g0929600
- PSP score
- LOC_Os01g70440.1: 0.6118
- PLAAC score
- LOC_Os01g70440.1: 0
- pLDDT score
- 69.65
- Protein Structure from AlphaFold and UniProt
- Publication
- Genbank accession number
- Key message
- Light and near-infrared confocal microscopy of cross-sections through developing flowers of male-sterile transgenics shows that tissue-specific expression of barnase or the antisense RTS genes interrupts tapetal development, resulting in deformed non-viable pollen
- These results demonstrate a critical role of the RTS gene in pollen development in rice and the versatile application of the RTS gene promoter in directing anther-specific gene expression in both monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants, pointing to a potential for exploiting this gene and its promoter for engineering male sterility for hybrid production of various plant species
- A tapetum-specific gene, RTS, has been isolated by differential screening of a cDNA library from rice panicles
- Transgenic and antisense RNA approaches revealed that RTS gene is required for male fertility in rice
- RTS, a rice anther-specific gene is required for male fertility and its promoter sequence directs tissue-specific gene expression in different plant species
- Several other sequence motifs found in other anther-specific promoters were also identified in the promoter of the RTS gene
- Connection
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