Marco Busscher

TL;DR: A comprehensive plant protein–protein interactome map of nearly all members of the Arabidopsis thaliana MADS box transcription factor family is presented and a model is proposed that integrates the floral induction and floral organ formation networks based on the interactions between the proteins involved.

TL;DR: A targeted proteomics approach was able to establish a MADS-domain protein interactome that strongly supports a mechanistic link between MADs-domain proteins and chromatin remodeling factors and members of other transcription factor families were identified as interaction partners suggesting various specific combinatorial modes of action.

TL;DR: The role of dimerization in translocation of MADS box protein dimers to the nucleus is demonstrated, and the nuclear localization signal of MADs box proteins has been mapped to the N-terminal region of the MADS domain by means of mutant analyses.

TL;DR: In this article, the function of the petunia MADS box gene fbp2 in the control of floral development has been investigated and the results indicate that the fBP2 gene belongs to a new class of morphogenesis genes involved in the determination of the central part of the generative meristem.

TL;DR: Results strongly indicate that fbp1 is a petunia class B homeotic gene which is required for the correct initiation and determination of petals and stamens.