Summary: Rice Immature Pollen 1 (RIP1) is a Regulator of Late Pollen Development
Min-Jung Han 1, 2
, Ki-Hong Jung 1, 2, 4
, Gihwan Yi 3
, Dong-Yeon Lee 1, 2
and Gynheung An 1, 2,
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1
National Research Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics, Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Republic of Korea
2
Functional Genomic Center, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea
3
Yeongnam Agricultural Research Institute, National Institute of Crop Science, Rural Development Administration, Milyang, 627-130,
Republic of Korea
We isolated a pollen-preferential gene, RICE
IMMATURE POLLEN 1 (RIP1), from a T-DNA inser-
tional population of japonica rice that was trapped by a
promoterless b-glucuronidase (GUS) gene. Semi-quantitative
reverse transcription­PCR (RT­PCR) analyses confirmed
that the RIP1 transcript was abundant at the late stages of

Source: An, Gynheung - Department of Life Science, Pohang University of Science and Technology

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