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Recent studies on leaf development demonstrate that the mechanism on the adaxial-abaxial polarity pattern formation could be well conserved among the far-related species, in which PHANTASTICA (PAHN)-like genes play important roles. In this study, we explored the conservation and diversity on functions of PHAN-like genes during the compound leaf development in Lotus japonicus, a papilionoid legume. Two PHAN-like genes in L. japonicus, LjPHANa and LjPHANb, were found to originate from a gene duplication event and displayed different expression patterns during compound leaf development. Two mutants, reduced leaflets1 (rel1) and reduced leaflets3 (rel3), which exhibited decreased adaxial identity of leaflets and reduced leaflet initiation, were identified and investigated. The expression patterns of both LjPHANs in rel mutants were altered and correlated with abnormalities of compound leaves. Our data suggest that LjPHANa and LjPHANb play important but divergent roles in regulating adaxial-abaxial polarity of compound leaves in L. japonicus.
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The authors thank Dr. Hai HUANG for the vectors used in Arabidopsis transformation, and Dr. Bernard J. CARROLL for helpful revision. This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30430330).
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LUO, J., YAN, J., WENG, L. et al. Different expression patterns of duplicated PHANTASTICA-like genes in Lotus japonicus suggest their divergent functions during compound leaf development. Cell Res 15, 665–677 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.cr.7290336
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