Browsing by Author "Thompson, Beth E."
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Characterization Of 'Fuzzy Tassel' Male Sterility Defects Implicates Novel MiRNA-Regulated Pathways In Maize Stamen Development
Field, Sterling (East Carolina University, 2015)The maize 'fuzzy tassel' ('fzt') mutant is caused by a mutation in 'dicer-like1' and has broad developmental defects. 'dicer-like1' encodes a key enzyme for microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis and many miRNAs are reduced in 'fzt' ... -
Characterization of MiR319-Regulated TCPs in Maize Development
Novitzky, Katherine (East Carolina University, 1/13/16)Maize produces two inflorescences, the tassel and the ear, that are essential for reproduction. Both inflorescences arise from similar inflorescence primordia and are patterned largely by the same developmental regulators. ... -
Characterizing the Expression Pattern of miR167-Regulated ZmArf3 and ZmArf30 in Maize Inflorescences
Johnson, Caitlin E. (East Carolina University, 2014)Plant growth and development depends on the activity of meristems, pools of stem cells that generate leaves and other organs. Maize (corn) produces two inflorescences, the tassel and ear, which are patterned by a series ... -
Characterizing the vegetative phenotype of fzt maize mutant
Basham, Christine Elizabeth (East Carolina University, 2012)microRNAs are short, non-coding RNA strands that regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally in all multicellular organisms. miRNAs begin as a hairpin in the nucleus. The primary miRNA (pri-miRNA) and preliminary ... -
The dicer-like1 Homolog fuzzy tassel Is Required for the Regulation of Meristem Determinacy in the Inflorescence and Vegetative Growth in Maize
Thompson, Beth E.; Basham, Christine Elizabeth; Hammond, Reza; Ding, Queying; Kakranan, Atul; Lee, Tzuz-Fen; Simon, Stacey A.; Meeley, Robert; Meyers, Blake C.; Hake, Sarah (2014-12)Plant architecture is determined by meristems that initiate leaves during vegetative development and flowers during reproductive development. Maize (Zea mays) inflorescences are patterned by a series of branching events, ... -
USING LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION (LCM) TO EXAMINE MADS-BOX GENE EXPRESSION IN THE UPPER AND LOWER FLORAL MERISTEMS OF MAIZE
Nukunya, Kate Adriana (East Carolina University, 2013)MADS-box transcription factors are important regulators of flower development in all flowering plants. In the grasses, flowers (called florets) are contained in spikelets. Maize spikelets contain two florets (the upper and ...