Dasheng Zhang

TL;DR: Results indicate that TDR is a key component of the molecular network regulating rice tapetum development and degeneration, and two genes, Os CP1 and Os c6, encoding a Cys protease and a protease inhibitor, were shown to be the likely direct targets of TDR.

TL;DR: It is shown by microarray analysis that the expression of 549 anther-expressed genes was altered in ams buds and that these genes are associated with tapetal function and pollen wall formation, and it is demonstrated that AMS has the ability to bind in vitro to DNA containing a 6-bp consensus motif, CANNTG.

TL;DR: OsC6 plays a crucial role in the development of lipidic orbicules and pollen exine during anther development in rice, and additional evidence is provided that the expression of OsC6 is positively regulated by a basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor, Tapetum Degeneration Retardation (TDR).

TL;DR: Microarray data revealed that a group of genes putatively involved in lipid transport and metabolism were significantly altered in the tdr mutant, indicating the critical role of TDR in the formation of the pollen wall.

TL;DR: SIPeS is a novel algorithm for precise identification of binding sites from short reads generated by paired-end solexa ChIP-Seq technology and is designed to calculate the mappable genome length accurately with the fragment length based on the paired- end reads.