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Rice functional genomics: decades' efforts and roads ahead. SCIENCE CHINA. LIFE SCIENCES 2021; 65:33-92. [PMID: 34881420 DOI: 10.1007/s11427-021-2024-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important crops in the world. Since the completion of rice reference genome sequences, tremendous progress has been achieved in understanding the molecular mechanisms on various rice traits and dissecting the underlying regulatory networks. In this review, we summarize the research progress of rice biology over past decades, including omics, genome-wide association study, phytohormone action, nutrient use, biotic and abiotic responses, photoperiodic flowering, and reproductive development (fertility and sterility). For the roads ahead, cutting-edge technologies such as new genomics methods, high-throughput phenotyping platforms, precise genome-editing tools, environmental microbiome optimization, and synthetic methods will further extend our understanding of unsolved molecular biology questions in rice, and facilitate integrations of the knowledge for agricultural applications.
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Lv Y, Ma J, Wang Y, Wang Q, Lu X, Hu H, Qian Q, Guo L, Shang L. Loci and Natural Alleles for Low-Nitrogen-Induced Growth Response Revealed by the Genome-Wide Association Study Analysis in Rice ( Oryza sativa L.). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:770736. [PMID: 34804103 PMCID: PMC8602835 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.770736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2021] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Nitrogen is essential for plant growth and yield, and it is, therefore, crucial to increase the nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) of crop plants in fields. In this study, we measured four major low-nitrogen-induced growth response (LNGR) agronomic traits (i.e., plant height, tiller number, chlorophyll content, and leaf length) of the 225-rice-variety natural population from the Rice 3K Sequencing Project across normal nitrogen (NN) and low nitrogen (LN) environments. The LNGR phenotypic difference between NN and LN levels was used for gene analysis using a genome-wide association study (GWAS) combined with 111,205 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from the available sequenced data from the 3K project. We obtained a total of 56 significantly associated SNPs and 4 candidate genes for 4 LNGR traits. Some loci were located in the candidate regions, such as MYB61, OsOAT, and MOC2. To further study the role of candidate genes, we conducted haplotype analyses to identify the elite germplasms. Moreover, several other plausible candidate genes encoding LN-related or NUE proteins were worthy of mining. Our study provides novel insight into the genetic control of LNGR and further reveals some related novel haplotypes and potential genes with phenotypic variation in rice.
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- Yang Lv
- Rice Research Institute, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China
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- Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China
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- Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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Ding M, Zhang M, Zeng H, Hayashi Y, Zhu Y, Kinoshita T. Molecular basis of plasma membrane H +-ATPase function and potential application in the agricultural production. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2021; 168:10-16. [PMID: 34607207 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2021.09.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2021] [Revised: 09/11/2021] [Accepted: 09/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Increase of crop yield is always the desired goal, manipulation of genes in relation to plant growth is a shortcut to promote crop yield. The plasma membrane (PM) H+-ATPase is the plant master enzyme; the energy yielded by ATP hydrolysis pumps H+ out of cells, establishes the membrane potential, maintains pH homeostasis and provides the proton-motive force required for transmembrane transport of many materials. PM H+-ATPase is involved in root nutrient uptake, epidermal stomatal opening, phloem sucrose loading and unloading, and hypocotyl cell elongation. In this review, we summarize the recent progresses in roles of PM H+-ATPase in nutrient uptake and light-induced stomatal opening and discuss the pivotal role of PM H+-ATPase in crop yield improvement and its potential application in agricultural production by modulating the expression of PM H+-ATPase in crops.
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- Ming Ding
- Plant Physiology Laboratory of Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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- International Research Centre for Environmental Membrane Biology, Department of Horticulture, Foshan University, Foshan, 528000, China
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, 311121, China
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- Plant Physiology Laboratory of Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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- College of Resource and Environment Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Plant Physiology Laboratory of Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan; Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan.
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Wang F, Yoshida H, Matsuoka M. Making the 'Green Revolution' Truly Green: Improving Crop Nitrogen Use Efficiency. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2021; 62:942-947. [PMID: 33836084 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcab051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2021] [Revised: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Traditional breeding for high-yielding crops has mainly relied on the widespread cultivation of gibberellin (GA)-deficient semi-dwarf varieties, as dwarfism increases lodging resistance and allows for high nitrogen use, resulting in high grain yield. Although the adoption of semi-dwarf varieties in rice and wheat breeding brought big success to the 'Green Revolution' in the 20th century, it consequently increased the demand for nitrogen-based fertilizer, which causes severe threat to ecosystems and sustainable agriculture. To make the 'Green Revolution' truly green, it is necessary to develop new varieties with high nitrogen use efficiency (NUE). Under this demand, research on NUE, mainly for rice, has made great strides in the last decade. This mini-review focuses on three aspects of recent epoch-making findings on rice breeding for high NUE. The first one on 'NUE genes related to GA signaling' shows how promising it is to improve NUE in semi-dwarf Green Revolution varieties. The second aspect centers around the nitrate transporter1.1B, NRT1.1B; studies have revealed a nutrient signaling pathway through the discovery of the nitrate-NRT1.1B-SPX4-NLP3 cascade. The last one is based on the recent finding that the teosinte branched1, cycloidea, proliferating cell factor (TCP)-domain protein 19 underlies the genomic basis of geographical adaptation to soil nitrogen; OsTCP19 regulates the expression of a key transacting factor, DLT/SMOS2, which participates in the signaling of four different phytohormones, GA, auxin, brassinosteroid and strigolactone. Collectively, these breakthrough findings represent a significant step toward breeding high-NUE rice in the future.
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- Fanmiao Wang
- Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601 Japan
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- Faculty of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Fukushima University, Fukushima, 960-1248 Japan
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- Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601 Japan
- Faculty of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Fukushima University, Fukushima, 960-1248 Japan
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Zhang J, Zhang H, Li S, Li J, Yan L, Xia L. Increasing yield potential through manipulating of an ARE1 ortholog related to nitrogen use efficiency in wheat by CRISPR/Cas9. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2021; 63:1649-1663. [PMID: 34270164 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2021] [Accepted: 07/15/2021] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a staple food crop consumed by more than 30% of world population. Nitrogen (N) fertilizer has been applied broadly in agriculture practice to improve wheat yield to meet the growing demands for food production. However, undue N fertilizer application and the low N use efficiency (NUE) of modern wheat varieties are aggravating environmental pollution and ecological deterioration. Under nitrogen-limiting conditions, the rice (Oryza sativa) abnormal cytokinin response1 repressor1 (are1) mutant exhibits increased NUE, delayed senescence and consequently, increased grain yield. However, the function of ARE1 ortholog in wheat remains unknown. Here, we isolated and characterized three TaARE1 homoeologs from the elite Chinese winter wheat cultivar ZhengMai 7698. We then used CRISPR/Cas9-mediated targeted mutagenesis to generate a series of transgene-free mutant lines either with partial or triple-null taare1 alleles. All transgene-free mutant lines showed enhanced tolerance to N starvation, and showed delayed senescence and increased grain yield in field conditions. In particular, the AABBdd and aabbDD mutant lines exhibited delayed senescence and significantly increased grain yield without growth defects compared to the wild-type control. Together, our results underscore the potential to manipulate ARE1 orthologs through gene editing for breeding of high-yield wheat as well as other cereal crops with improved NUE.
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- Jiahui Zhang
- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
- School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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Wang Q, Su Q, Nian J, Zhang J, Guo M, Dong G, Hu J, Wang R, Wei C, Li G, Wang W, Guo HS, Lin S, Qian W, Xie X, Qian Q, Chen F, Zuo J. The Ghd7 transcription factor represses ARE1 expression to enhance nitrogen utilization and grain yield in rice. MOLECULAR PLANT 2021; 14:1012-1023. [PMID: 33930508 DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2021.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2021] [Revised: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/25/2021] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The genetic improvement of nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) of crops is vital for grain productivity and sustainable agriculture. However, the regulatory mechanism of NUE remains largely elusive. Here, we report that the rice Grain number, plant height, and heading date7 (Ghd7) gene genetically acts upstream of ABC1 REPRESSOR1 (ARE1), a negative regulator of NUE, to positively regulate nitrogen utilization. As a transcriptional repressor, Ghd7 directly binds to two Evening Element-like motifs in the promoter and intron 1 of ARE1, likely in a cooperative manner, to repress its expression. Ghd7 and ARE1 display diurnal expression patterns in an inverse oscillation manner, mirroring a regulatory scheme based on these two loci. Analysis of a panel of 2656 rice varieties suggests that the elite alleles of Ghd7 and ARE1 have undergone diversifying selection during breeding. Moreover, the allelic distribution of Ghd7 and ARE1 is associated with the soil nitrogen deposition rate in East Asia and South Asia. Remarkably, the combination of the Ghd7 and ARE1 elite alleles substantially improves NUE and yield performance under nitrogen-limiting conditions. Collectively, these results define a Ghd7-ARE1-based regulatory mechanism of nitrogen utilization, providing useful targets for genetic improvement of rice NUE.
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- Qing Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Shandong Rice Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya 572025, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya 572025, China.
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