Zea mays C2C2-YABBY Family

Description

Bowman. 2000: The establishment of abaxial-adaxial polarity in lateral organs involves factors intrinsic to the primordia and interactions with the apical meristem from which they are derived. Recently, a small plant-specific family of genes, the YABBY gene family, has been proposed to specify abaxial cell fate. Each asymmetric above-ground lateral organ expresses at least one member of the family in a polar manner, and loss- and gain-of-function studies indicate that they are sufficient to specify abaxial cell fate and that they act in both distinct and redundant manners.

Domain alignments

This family is also present in:

• Oryza sativa subsp. indica
• Oryza sativa subsp. japonica
• Sorghum bicolor
• Arabidopsis lyrata
• Arabidopsis thaliana
• Carica papaya
• Populus trichocarpa
• Vitis vinifera

References

There are 38 gene models in this family