Recruitment of CRABS CLAW to promote nectary development within the eudicot clade

Nectaries are secretory organs that are widely present in flowering plants that function to attract floral pollinators. Owing to diversity in nectary positions and structures, they are thought to have originated multiple times during angiosperm evolution, with their potential contribution to the div...

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Veröffentlicht in:Development (Cambridge) 2005-11, Vol.132 (22), p.5021-5032
Hauptverfasser: Lee, Ji-Young, Baum, Stuart F, Oh, Sang-Hun, Jiang, Cai-Zhong, Chen, Jen-Chih, Bowman, John L
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Zusammenfassung:Nectaries are secretory organs that are widely present in flowering plants that function to attract floral pollinators. Owing to diversity in nectary positions and structures, they are thought to have originated multiple times during angiosperm evolution, with their potential contribution to the diversification of flowering plants and pollinating animals being considerable. We investigated the genetic basis of diverse nectary forms in eudicot angiosperm species using CRABS CLAW ( CRC ), a gene required for nectaries in Arabidopsis . CRC expression is conserved in morphologically different nectaries from several core eudicot species and is required for nectary development in both rosids and asterids, two major phylogenetic lineages of eudicots. However, in a basal eudicot species, no evidence of CRC expression in nectaries was found. Considering the phylogenetic distribution of nectary positions and CRC expression analyses in eudicots, we propose that diverse nectaries in core eudicots share conserved CRC gene regulation, and that derived nectary positions in eudicots have altered regulation of CRC . As the ancestral function of CRC lies in the regulation of carpel development, it may have been co-opted as a regulator of nectary development within the eudicots, concomitant with the association of nectaries with reproductive organs in derived lineages.
ISSN:0950-1991
1477-9129
DOI:10.1242/dev.02067