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Gong X, Zhang T, Xing J, Wang R, Zhao Y. Positional effects on efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9-based transcriptional activation in rice plants. ABIOTECH 2020; 1:1-5. [PMID: 36305003 PMCID: PMC9590548 DOI: 10.1007/s42994-019-00007-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Accepted: 09/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The nuclease-dead Cas9 (dCas9) has been reprogrammed for transcriptional activation by fusing dCas9 to a transcriptional activation domain. In the presence of a guide RNA (gRNA), the dCas9 fusions specifically bind to regions of a promoter to activate transcription. Significant amount of effort has been directed toward the identification and optimization of the fusions of dCas9-activation domain, but very little is known about the impact of gRNA target positions within a promoter in plants on transcriptional activation efficiency. The dCas9-6TAL-VP128 system (dCas9-TV) has been optimized to activate transcription in plants. Here we use the dCas9-TV to activate transcription of OsWOX11 and OsYUC1, two genes that cause dramatic developmental phenotypes when overexpressed. We designed a series of gRNAs targeting the promoters of the two genes. We show that gRNAs that target regions within 350 bp upstream of the transcription start site were most effective in transcriptional activation. Moreover, we show that using two gRNAs that simultaneously target two discrete sites in a promoter can further enhance transcription. This work provides guidelines for designed transcriptional activation through CRISPR/dCas9 systems.
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- Xiaoyu Gong
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116 USA
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Lee KH, Du Q, Zhuo C, Qi L, Wang H. LBD29-Involved Auxin Signaling Represses NAC Master Regulators and Fiber Wall Biosynthesis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 181:595-608. [PMID: 31377726 PMCID: PMC6776862 DOI: 10.1104/pp.19.00148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2019] [Accepted: 07/31/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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NAM, ATAF1/2 and CUC2 (NAC) domain transcription factors function as master switches in regulating secondary cell wall (SCW) biosynthesis in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) stems. Despite the importance of these NACs in fiber development, the upstream signal is still elusive. Using a large-scale mutant screening, we identified a dominant activation-tagging mutant, fiberless-d (fls-d), showing defective SCW development in stem fibers, similar to that of the nac secondary wall thickening promoting factor1-1 (nst1-1)nst3-3 double mutant. Overexpression of LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARIES DOMAIN29 (LBD29) is responsible for the fls-d mutant phenotypes. By contrast, loss-of-function of LBD29, either in the dominant repression transgenic lines or in the transfer-DNA (T-DNA) insertion mutant lbd29-1, enhanced SCW development in fibers. Genetic analysis and transgenic studies demonstrated LBD29 depends on master regulators in mediating SCW biosynthesis, specifically NAC SECONDARY WALL THICKENING PROMOTING FACTOR1 (NST1), NST2, and NST3. Increasing indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) levels, either in stem tissues above a N-1-naphthylphthalamic acid-treated region or in plants directly sprayed with IAA, inhibits fiber wall thickening. The inhibition effect of naphthylphthalamic acid treatment and exogenous IAA application depends on a known auxin signaling pathway involving AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR7 (ARF7)/ARF19 and LBD29. These results demonstrate auxin is upstream of LBD29 in repressing NAC master regulators, and therefore shed new light on the regulation of SCW biosynthesis in Arabidopsis.
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- Kwang-Hee Lee
- Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269
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- Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203
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- Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269
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- Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269
- Institute for Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269
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Wang F, Gao Y, Liu Y, Zhang X, Gu X, Ma D, Zhao Z, Yuan Z, Xue H, Liu H. BES1-regulated BEE1 controls photoperiodic flowering downstream of blue light signaling pathway in Arabidopsis. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2019; 223:1407-1419. [PMID: 31009078 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2018] [Accepted: 04/14/2019] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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BRI1-EMS-SUPPRESSOR 1 (BES1) functions as a key regulator in the brassinosteroid (BR) pathway that promotes plant growth. However, whether BES1 is involved in photoperiodic flowering is unknown. Here we report that BES1 acts as a positive regulator of photoperiodic flowering, but it cannot directly bind FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) promoter. BR ENHANCED EXPRESSION 1 (BEE1) is the direct target of BES1 and acts downstream of BES1. BEE1 is also a positive regulator of photoperiodic flowering. BEE1 binds directly to the FT chromatin to activate the transcription of FT and promote flowering initiation. More importantly, BEE1 promotes flowering in a blue light photoreceptor CRYPTOCHROME 2 (CRY2) partially dependent manner, as it physically interacts with CRY2 under the blue light. Furthermore, BEE1 is regulated by both BRs and blue light. The transcription of BEE1 is induced by BRs, and the BEE1 protein is stabilized under the blue light. Our findings indicate that BEE1 is the integrator of BES1 and CRY2 mediating flowering, and BES1-BEE1-FT is a new signaling pathway in regulating photoperiodic flowering.
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- Fei Wang
- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources/Key Laboratory of Biology and Germplasm Enhancement of Horticultural Crops in South China, Ministry of Agriculture/College of Horticulture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, 200234, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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Plant cell-surface GIPC sphingolipids sense salt to trigger Ca 2+ influx. Nature 2019; 572:341-346. [PMID: 31367039 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1449-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 258] [Impact Index Per Article: 51.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2018] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Salinity is detrimental to plant growth, crop production and food security worldwide. Excess salt triggers increases in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration, which activate Ca2+-binding proteins and upregulate the Na+/H+ antiporter in order to remove Na+. Salt-induced increases in Ca2+ have long been thought to be involved in the detection of salt stress, but the molecular components of the sensing machinery remain unknown. Here, using Ca2+-imaging-based forward genetic screens, we isolated the Arabidopsis thaliana mutant monocation-induced [Ca2+]i increases 1 (moca1), and identified MOCA1 as a glucuronosyltransferase for glycosyl inositol phosphorylceramide (GIPC) sphingolipids in the plasma membrane. MOCA1 is required for salt-induced depolarization of the cell-surface potential, Ca2+ spikes and waves, Na+/H+ antiporter activation, and regulation of growth. Na+ binds to GIPCs to gate Ca2+ influx channels. This salt-sensing mechanism might imply that plasma-membrane lipids are involved in adaption to various environmental salt levels, and could be used to improve salt resistance in crops.
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T-DNA activation tagging in rice results in a variable response to Meloidogyne graminicola infection. Biologia (Bratisl) 2019. [DOI: 10.2478/s11756-019-00281-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Li Z, Wang F, Li JF. Targeted Transcriptional Activation in Plants Using a Potent Dead Cas9-Derived Synthetic Gene Activator. CURRENT PROTOCOLS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 127:e89. [PMID: 31237422 DOI: 10.1002/cpmb.89] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Genetic tools for specific perturbation of endogenous gene expression are highly desirable for interrogation of plant gene functions and improvement of crop traits. Synthetic transcriptional activators derived from the CRISPR/Cas9 system are emerging as powerful new tools for activating the endogenous expression of genes of interest in plants. These synthetic constructs, generated by tethering transcriptional activation domains to a nuclease-dead Cas9 (dCas9), can be directed to the promoters of endogenous target genes by single guide RNAs (sgRNAs) to activate transcription. Here, we provide a detailed protocol for targeted transcriptional activation in plants using a recently developed, highly potent dCas9 gene activator construct referred to as dCas9-TV. This protocol covers selection of sgRNA targets, construction of sgRNA expression cassettes, and screening for an optimal sgRNA using a protoplast-based promoter-luciferase assay. Finally, the dCas9-TV gene activator coupled with the optimal sgRNA is delivered into plants via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, thereby enabling robust upregulation of target gene expression in transgenic Arabidopsis and rice plants. © 2019 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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- Zhenxiang Li
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Taylor I, Baer J, Calcutt R, Walker JC. Hypermorphic SERK1 Mutations Function via a SOBIR1 Pathway to Activate Floral Abscission Signaling. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 180:1219-1229. [PMID: 30975695 PMCID: PMC6548279 DOI: 10.1104/pp.18.01328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2018] [Accepted: 03/24/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), the abscission of floral organs is regulated by two related receptor-like protein kinases, HAESA (HAE) and HAESA-LIKE2 (HSL2). In complex with members of the SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASE (SERK) family of coreceptor protein kinases, HAE and HSL2 are activated when bound by INFLORESCENCE DEFICIENT IN ABSICSSION, a proteolytically processed peptide ligand, activating the expression of genes encoding secreted cell wall remodeling and hydrolase enzymes. hae hsl2 mutants fail to induce expression of these genes and retain floral organs indefinitely. Here, we report identification of an allelic series of hae hsl2 suppressor mutations in the SERK1 coreceptor protein kinase gene. Genetic and transcriptomic evidence indicates that these alleles represent a novel class of gain-of-function mutations that activate signaling independently of HAE/HSL2. We show that, surprisingly, the suppression effect does not rely on the protein kinase activity of SERK1 and that activation of signaling relies on the receptor-like kinase gene SUPPRESSOR OF BIR1 (SOBIR1). The effect of these mutations can be mimicked by loss of function of BAK1-INTERACTING RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASE1 (BIR1), a known negative regulator of SERK-SOBIR1 signaling. These results suggest that BIR1 negatively regulates SERK-SOBIR1 signaling during abscission and that the identified SERK1 mutations likely interfere with this negative regulation.
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- Isaiah Taylor
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
- Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
- Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
- Department of Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
- Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
- Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
- Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
- Biology Department, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
- Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
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Liao CC, Chen LJ, Lo SF, Chen CW, Chu YW. EAT-Rice: A predictive model for flanking gene expression of T-DNA insertion activation-tagged rice mutants by machine learning approaches. PLoS Comput Biol 2019; 15:e1006942. [PMID: 31067213 PMCID: PMC6505892 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2018] [Accepted: 03/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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T-DNA activation-tagging technology is widely used to study rice gene functions. When T-DNA inserts into genome, the flanking gene expression may be altered using CaMV 35S enhancer, but the affected genes still need to be validated by biological experiment. We have developed the EAT-Rice platform to predict the flanking gene expression of T-DNA insertion site in rice mutants. The three kinds of DNA sequences including UPS1K, DISTANCE, and MIDDLE were retrieved to encode and build a forecast model of two-layer machine learning. In the first-layer models, the features nucleotide context (N-gram), cis-regulatory elements (Motif), nucleotide physicochemical properties (NPC), and CG-island (CGI) were used to build SVM models by analysing the concealed information embedded within the three kinds of sequences. Logistic regression was used to estimate the probability of gene activation which as feature-encoding weighting within first-layer model. In the second-layer models, the NaiveBayesUpdateable algorithm was used to integrate these first layer-models, and the system performance was 88.33% on 5-fold cross-validation, and 79.17% on independent-testing finally. In the three kinds of sequences, the model constructed by Middle had the best contribution to the system for identifying the activated genes. The EAT-Rice system provided better performance and gene expression prediction at further distances when compared to the TRIM database. An online server based on EAT-rice is available at http://predictor.nchu.edu.tw/EAT-Rice.
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- Chi-Chou Liao
- Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.,Advanced Plant Biotechnology Center National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.,Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.,Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.,Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.,Ph.D. Program in Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.,Rong Hsing Research Center For Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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Zhang L, Paasch BC, Chen J, Day B, He SY. An important role of l-fucose biosynthesis and protein fucosylation genes in Arabidopsis immunity. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2019; 222:981-994. [PMID: 30552820 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2018] [Accepted: 12/01/2018] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Plants mount coordinated immune responses to defend themselves against pathogens. However, the cellular components required for plant immunity are not fully understood. The jasmonate-mimicking coronatine (COR) toxin produced by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pst) DC3000 functions to overcome plant immunity. We previously isolated eight Arabidopsis (scord) mutants that exhibit increased susceptibility to a COR-deficient mutant of PstDC3000. Among them, the scord6 mutant exhibits defects both in stomatal closure response and in restricting bacterial multiplication inside the apoplast. However, the identity of SCORD6 remained elusive. In this study, we aim to identify the SCORD6 gene. We identified SCORD6 via next-generation sequencing and found it to be MURUS1 (MUR1), which is involved in the biosynthesis of GDP-l-fucose. Discovery of SCORD6 as MUR1 led to a series of experiments that revealed a multi-faceted role of l-fucose biosynthesis in stomatal and apoplastic defenses as well as in pattern-triggered immunity and effector-triggered immunity, including glycosylation of pattern-recognition receptors. Furthermore, compromised stomatal and/or apoplastic defenses were observed in mutants of several fucosyltransferases with specific substrates (e.g. O-glycan, N-glycan or the DELLA transcriptional repressors). Collectively, these results uncover a novel and broad role of l-fucose and protein fucosylation in plant immunity.
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- Li Zhang
- Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
- Plant Resilience Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
- Plant Resilience Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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Shin DJ, Min JH, Van Nguyen T, Kim YM, Kim CS. Loss of Arabidopsis Halotolerance 2-like (AHL), a 3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphate phosphatase, suppresses insensitive response of Arabidopsis thaliana ring zinc finger 1 (atrzf1) mutant to abiotic stress. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 99:363-377. [PMID: 30637572 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-019-00822-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 01/07/2019] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Destruction of PAP phosphatase AHL suppresses atrzf1 phenotype in abiotic stress responses. AHL plays an intermediate role in the regulation of proline accumulation by PAP nucleotidase. Proline (Pro) metabolism is important for environmental responses, plant development, and growth. However, the role of Pro in abiotic stress process is unclear. Using atrzf1 (Arabidopsis thaliana ring zinc finger 1) mutant as a parental line for T-DNA tagging mutagenesis, we identified a suppressor mutant designated as proline content alterative 17 (pca17) that suppressed insensitivity of atrzf1 to abiotic stresses during early seedling growth. Pro content of pca17 was lower than that in both wild type (WT) and atrzf1 while complementary lines were less sensitive to abscisic acid (ABA) and abiotic stresses compared to WT. Thermal Asymmetric Interlaced (TAIL)-PCR of pca17 showed that T-DNA was inserted at site of At5g54390 (AHL for Arabidopsis Halotolerance 2-like) encoding 3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphate (PAP) phosphatase. Under drought stress condition, products of sulfate metabolism such as PAP and adenosine monophosphate were significantly lower in pca17 than those in WT and atrzf1. Furthermore, pca17 showed significantly higher levels of several important drought parameters including malondialdehyde, ion leakage, and water loss than WT and atrzf1. Fluorescence signal of green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged AHL was quite strong in nuclei of the root and guard cells of transgenic seedlings. Additionally, AHL promoter-β-glucuronidase (GUS) construct revealed substantial gene expression in vasculature tissues and pollen. Collectively, these findings demonstrate that pca17 acts as a dominant suppressor mutant of atrzf1 in abiotic stress response by modulating proline and sulfate metabolism.
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- Da-Jeong Shin
- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Food Science & Technology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea.
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Two E3 ligases antagonistically regulate the UV-B response in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:4722-4731. [PMID: 30787186 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1816268116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Photomorphogenesis is a pivotal developmental strategy used by plants to respond to environmental light levels. During emergence from the soil and the establishment of photomorphogenesis, seedlings encounter increasing levels of UV-B irradiation and develop adaptive responses accordingly. However, the molecular mechanisms that orchestrate UV-B signaling cascades remain elusive. Here, we provide biochemical and genetic evidence that the prolonged signaling circuits of UV-B-induced photomorphogenesis involve two sets of E3 ligases and a transcription factor in Arabidopsis thaliana The UV-B-inducible protein RUP1/RUP2 associates with the CUL4-DDB1 scaffold to form an E3 ligase, which represses photomorphogenesis by mediating the degradation of HY5, the hub transcription factor in the light signaling pathway. Conversely, COP1 directly targets RUP1/RUP2 for ubiquitination and degradation, leading to balanced RUP1/RUP2 accumulation, alleviation of the COP1-HY5 interaction, and stabilization of HY5 protein. Therefore, our study reveals that these two E3-substrate modules, CUL4-DDB1-RUP1/RUP2-HY5 and COP1-RUP1/RUP2, constitute the repression and derepression machinery by which plants respond to prolonged UV-B irradiation in photomorphogenic development.
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Davies JP, Reddy VS, Liu XL, Reddy AS, Ainley W, Folkerts O, Marri P, Jiang K, Wagner D. Development of an activation tagging system for maize. PLANT DIRECT 2019; 3:e00118. [PMID: 31245761 PMCID: PMC6508757 DOI: 10.1002/pld3.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2018] [Revised: 01/10/2019] [Accepted: 01/27/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Activation Tagging, distributing transcriptional enhancers throughout the genome to induce transcription of nearby genes, is a powerful tool for discovering the function of genes in plants. We have developed a transposable element system to distribute a novel activation tagging element throughout the genome of maize. The transposon system is built from the Enhancer/Suppressor (En/Spm) transposon system and uses an engineered seed color marker to show when the transposon excises. Both somatic and germinal excision events can be detected by the seed color. The activation tagging element is in a Spm-derived non-autonomous transposon and contains four copies of the Sugarcane Bacilliform Virus-enhancer (SCBV-enhancer) and the AAD1 selectable marker. We have demonstrated that the transposon can give rise to germinal excision events that can re-integrate into non-linked genomic locations. The transposon has remained active for three generations and events displaying high rates of germinal excision in the T2 generation have been identified. This system can generate large numbers of activation tagged maize lines that can be screened for agriculturally relevant phenotypes.
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- Dow AgroSciencesIndianapolisIndiana
- Present address:
Molecular MicrobiologySchool of MedicineWashington University in St LouisSt LouisMissouri
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- Dow AgroSciencesIndianapolisIndiana
- Present address:
Genus PLCDe ForestWisconsin
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Jiang W, Li Z, Yao X, Zheng B, Shen WH, Dong A. jaw-1D: a gain-of-function mutation responsive to paramutation-like induction of epigenetic silencing. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2019; 70:459-468. [PMID: 30346598 PMCID: PMC6322565 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ery365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2018] [Accepted: 10/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The Arabidopsis thaliana gain-of-function T-DNA insertion mutant jaw-1D produces miR319A, a microRNA that represses genes encoding CIN-like TEOSINTE BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PROLIFERATING CELL FACTORs (TCPs), a family of transcription factors that play key roles in leaf morphogenesis. In this study, we show that jaw-1D is responsive to paramutation-like epigenetic silencing. A genetic cross of jaw-1D with the polycomb gene mutant curly leaf-29 (clf-29) leads to attenuation of the jaw-1D mutant plant phenotype. This induced mutation, jaw-1D*, was associated with down-regulation of miR319A, was heritable independently from clf-29, and displayed paramutation-like non-Mendelian inheritance. Down-regulation of miR319A in jaw-1D* was linked to elevated levels of histone H3 lysine 9 dimethylation and DNA methylation at the CaMV35S enhancer located within the activation-tagging T-DNA of the jaw-1D locus. Examination of 21 independent T-DNA insertion mutant lines revealed that 11 could attenuate the jaw-1D mutant phenotype in a similar way to the paramutation induced by clf-29. These paramutagenic mutant lines shared the common feature that their T-DNA insertion was present as multi-copy tandem repeats and contained high levels of CG and CHG methylation. Our results provide important insights into paramutation-like epigenetic silencing, and caution against the use of jaw-1D in genetic interaction studies.
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- Wen Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, International Associated Laboratory of CNRS-Fudan-HUNAU on Plant Epigenome Research, Institute of Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, International Associated Laboratory of CNRS-Fudan-HUNAU on Plant Epigenome Research, Institute of Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, International Associated Laboratory of CNRS-Fudan-HUNAU on Plant Epigenome Research, Institute of Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- College of Life and Environment Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Genetics and Development, Institute of Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, International Associated Laboratory of CNRS-Fudan-HUNAU on Plant Epigenome Research, Institute of Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Strasbourg, France
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, International Associated Laboratory of CNRS-Fudan-HUNAU on Plant Epigenome Research, Institute of Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Weinman LM, Running KLD, Carey NS, Stevenson EJ, Swaney DL, Chow BY, Krogan NJ, Krogan NT. TCO, a Putative Transcriptional Regulator in Arabidopsis, Is a Target of the Protein Kinase CK2. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 20:ijms20010099. [PMID: 30597831 PMCID: PMC6337506 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20010099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2018] [Revised: 12/26/2018] [Accepted: 12/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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As multicellular organisms grow, spatial and temporal patterns of gene expression are strictly regulated to ensure that developmental programs are invoked at appropriate stages. In this work, we describe a putative transcriptional regulator in Arabidopsis, TACO LEAF (TCO), whose overexpression results in the ectopic activation of reproductive genes during vegetative growth. Isolated as an activation-tagged allele, tco-1D displays gene misexpression and phenotypic abnormalities, such as curled leaves and early flowering, characteristic of chromatin regulatory mutants. A role for TCO in this mode of transcriptional regulation is further supported by the subnuclear accumulation patterns of TCO protein and genetic interactions between tco-1D and chromatin modifier mutants. The endogenous expression pattern of TCO and gene misregulation in tco loss-of-function mutants indicate that this factor is involved in seed development. We also demonstrate that specific serine residues of TCO protein are targeted by the ubiquitous kinase CK2. Collectively, these results identify TCO as a novel regulator of gene expression whose activity is likely influenced by phosphorylation, as is the case with many chromatin regulators.
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- Laina M Weinman
- Department of Biology, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA.
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- Department of Biology, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA.
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- Department of Biology, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA.
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- Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
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- Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
- Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI), University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
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- Department of Biology, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA.
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- Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
- Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI), University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
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- Department of Biology, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA.
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Kim JH, Kim J, Jun SE, Park S, Timilsina R, Kwon DS, Kim Y, Park SJ, Hwang JY, Nam HG, Kim GT, Woo HR. ORESARA15, a PLATZ transcription factor, mediates leaf growth and senescence in Arabidopsis. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2018; 220:609-623. [PMID: 29949656 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2017] [Accepted: 05/24/2018] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Plant leaves undergo a series of developmental changes from leaf primordium initiation through growth and maturation to senescence throughout their life span. Although the mechanisms underlying leaf senescence have been intensively elucidated, our knowledge of the interrelationship between early leaf development and senescence is still fragmentary. We isolated the oresara15-1Dominant (ore15-1D) mutant, which had an extended leaf longevity and an enlarged leaf size, from activation-tagged lines of Arabidopsis. Plasmid rescue identified that ORE15 encodes a PLANT A/T-RICH SEQUENCE- AND ZINC-BINDING PROTEIN family transcription factor. Phenotypes of ore15-1D and ore15-2, a loss-of-function mutant, were evaluated through physiological and anatomical analyses. Microarray, quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, and chromatin immunoprecipitation as well as genetic analysis were employed to reveal the molecular mechanism of ORE15 in the regulation of leaf growth and senescence. ORE15 enhanced leaf growth by promoting the rate and duration of cell proliferation in the earlier stage and suppressed leaf senescence in the later stage by modulating the GROWTH-REGULATING FACTOR (GRF)/GRF-INTERACTING FACTOR regulatory pathway. Our study highlighted a molecular conjunction through ORE15 between growth and senescence, which are two temporally separate developmental processes during leaf life span.
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- Jin Hee Kim
- Center for Plant Aging Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daegu, 42988, Korea
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- Center for Plant Aging Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daegu, 42988, Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Dong-A University, Busan, 49315, Korea
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- Department of New Biology, DGIST, Daegu, 42988, Korea
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- Center for Plant Aging Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daegu, 42988, Korea
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- Department of New Biology, DGIST, Daegu, 42988, Korea
- Department of Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, 34134, Korea
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- Center for Plant Aging Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daegu, 42988, Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Dong-A University, Busan, 49315, Korea
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- Center for Plant Aging Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daegu, 42988, Korea
- Department of New Biology, DGIST, Daegu, 42988, Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Dong-A University, Busan, 49315, Korea
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- Department of New Biology, DGIST, Daegu, 42988, Korea
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Liu Y, Li X, Ma D, Chen Z, Wang JW, Liu H. CIB1 and CO interact to mediate CRY2-dependent regulation of flowering. EMBO Rep 2018; 19:embr.201845762. [PMID: 30126927 DOI: 10.15252/embr.201845762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2018] [Revised: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 08/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Cryptochromes are photolyase-like photoreceptors. Arabidopsis CRY2 (cryptochrome 2) primarily mediates the photoperiodic regulation of floral initiation. CRY2 has been shown to promote FT (FLOWERING LOCUS T) mRNA expression in response to blue light by suppressing the degradation of the CO (CONSTANS) protein and activating CIB1 (CRY2-interacting bHLH1). Although CIB1 and CO are both transcriptional activators of FT, their relationship is unknown. Here, we show that CIB1 physically interacts with CO and promotes FT transcription in a CO-dependent manner. CRY2, CIB1, and CO form a protein complex in response to blue light to activate FT transcription, and the complex is regulated by the photoperiod and peaks at dusk along with higher FT expression. We also determined that CRY2 was recruited to the FT chromatin by CIB1 and CO and that all three proteins are bound to the same region within the FT promoter. Therefore, there is crosstalk between the CRY2-CO and CRY2-CIBs pathways, and CIB1 and CO act together to regulate FT transcription and flowering.
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- Yawen Liu
- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Martín-Rodríguez JÁ, Leija A, Formey D, Hernández G. The MicroRNA319d/TCP10 Node Regulates the Common Bean - Rhizobia Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiosis. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1175. [PMID: 30147704 PMCID: PMC6095992 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2018] [Accepted: 07/23/2018] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Micro-RNAs from legume plants are emerging as relevant regulators of the rhizobia nitrogen-fixing symbiosis. In this work we functionally characterized the role of the node conformed by micro-RNA319 (miR319) - TEOSINTE BRANCHED/CYCLOIDEA/PCF (TCP) transcription factor in the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) - Rhizobium tropici symbiosis. The miR319d, one of nine miR319 isoforms from common bean, was highly expressed in root and nodules from inoculated plants as compared to roots from fertilized plants. The miR319d targets TCP10 (Phvul.005G067950), identified by degradome analysis, whose expression showed a negative correlation with miR319d expression. The phenotypic analysis of R. tropici-inoculated composite plants with transgenic roots/nodules overexpressing or silencing the function of miR319d demonstrated the relevant role of the miR319d/TCP10 node in the common bean rhizobia symbiosis. Increased miR319d resulted in reduced root length/width ratio, increased rhizobial infection evidenced by more deformed root hairs and infection threads, and decreased nodule formation and nitrogenase activity per plant. In addition, these plants with lower TCP10 levels showed decreased expression level of the jasmonic acid (JA) biosynthetic gene: LOX2. The transcription of LOX2 by TCPs has been demonstrated for Arabidopsis and in several plants LOX2 level and JA content have been associate with TCP levels. On this basis, we propose that in roots/nodules of inoculated common bean plants TCP10 could be the transcriptional regulator of LOX2 and the miR319d/TCP10 node could affect nodulation through JA signaling. However, given the complexity of nodulation, the participation of other signaling pathways in the phenotypes observed cannot be ruled out.
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Zhou J, Liu X, Zhao ST, Hu JJ, Zhang JW, Wang JH, Peng XP, Qi XL, Cheng TL, Lu MZ. An assessment of transgenomics as a tool for gene discovery in Populus euphratica Oliv. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2018; 97:525-535. [PMID: 30051252 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-018-0755-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2018] [Accepted: 07/05/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Transgenomics for gene discovery in Populus euphratica. Transgenomics, a member of the omics family of methodologies, is characterized as the introduction of DNA from one organism into another on a genome-wide scale followed by the identification of recipients with altered phenotypes. This strategy allows investigators to identify the gene(s) involved in these phenotypic changes. It is particularly promising for woody plants that have a long life cycle and for which molecular tools are limited. In this study, we constructed a large-insert binary bacterial artificial chromosome library of Populus euphratica, a stress-tolerant poplar species, which included 55,296 clones with average insert sizes of about 127 kb. To date, 1077 of the clones have been transformed into Arabidopsis thaliana via Agrobacterium by the floral dip method. Of these, 69 transgenic lines showed phenotypic changes represented by diverse aspects of plant form and development, 22 of which were reproducibly associated with the same phenotypic change. One of the clones conferring transgenic plants with increased salt tolerance, 002A1F06, was further analyzed and the 127,284 bp insert in this clone harbored eight genes that have been previously reported to be involved in stress resistance. This study demonstrates that transgenomics is useful in the study of functional genomics of woody plants and in the identification of novel gene(s) responsible for economically important traits. Thus, transgenomics can also be used for validation of quantitative trait loci mapped by molecular markers.
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- Jing Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China
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- Beijing Agro-Biotechnology Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100097, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China.
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Genetic Analysis of Chloroplast Biogenesis, and Function and Mutant Collections. Methods Mol Biol 2018. [PMID: 29987733 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8654-5_23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Since the time DNA was discovered as the code of life, genetic analysis has greatly advanced our understanding of the relation between genotype and phenotype and associated molecular mechanisms in various organisms including plants and algae. Forward genetics from phenotype to genotype has identified causal genes of interesting phenotypes induced by chemical, ionizing-radiation, or DNA insertional mutagenesis. Meanwhile, reverse genetics from genotype to phenotype has revealed physiological and molecular roles of known gene sequences. During the past dozen years, many molecular genetic tools have been developed to investigate gene functions quickly and efficiently. In this chapter, we introduce several approaches of forward and reverse genetics, including random chemical and DNA insertional mutagenesis, activation tagging, RNA interference, and gene overexpression and induction systems, with some examples of genetic studies of chloroplast biology mainly in Arabidopsis thaliana. We also briefly describe methods for chemical and DNA insertion mutagenesis and how to obtain sequence-tagged mutants from public collections. With greatly improved DNA sequencing and genome-editing technologies, model organisms as well as diverse species can be used for molecular biology. Genetic analysis can play an increasingly important role in elucidating chloroplast biogenesis and functions.
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Moin M, Bakshi A, Saha A, Dutta M, Kirti PB. Gain-of-function mutagenesis approaches in rice for functional genomics and improvement of crop productivity. Brief Funct Genomics 2018; 16:238-247. [PMID: 28137760 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elw041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The epitome of any genome research is to identify all the existing genes in a genome and investigate their roles. Various techniques have been applied to unveil the functions either by silencing or over-expressing the genes by targeted expression or random mutagenesis. Rice is the most appropriate model crop for generating a mutant resource for functional genomic studies because of the availability of high-quality genome sequence and relatively smaller genome size. Rice has syntenic relationships with members of other cereals. Hence, characterization of functionally unknown genes in rice will possibly provide key genetic insights and can lead to comparative genomics involving other cereals. The current review attempts to discuss the available gain-of-function mutagenesis techniques for functional genomics, emphasizing the contemporary approach, activation tagging and alterations to this method for the enhancement of yield and productivity of rice.
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Lee YK, Rhee JY, Lee SH, Chung GC, Park SJ, Segami S, Maeshima M, Choi G. Functionally redundant LNG3 and LNG4 genes regulate turgor-driven polar cell elongation through activation of XTH17 and XTH24. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2018; 97:23-36. [PMID: 29616436 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-018-0722-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2017] [Accepted: 03/25/2018] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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In this work, we genetically characterized the function of Arabidopsis thaliana, LONGIFOLIA (LNG1), LNG2, LNG3, LNG4, their contribution to regulate vegetative architecture in plant. We used molecular and biophysical approaches to elucidate a gene function that regulates vegetative architecture, as revealed by the leaf phenotype and later effects on flowering patterns in Arabidopsis loss-of-function mutants. As a result, LNG genes play an important role in polar cell elongation by turgor pressure controlling the activation of XTH17 and XTH24. Plant vegetative architecture is related to important traits that later influence the floral architecture involved in seed production. Leaf morphology is the primary key trait to compose plant vegetative architecture. However, molecular mechanism on leaf shape determination is not fully understood even in the model plant A. thaliana. We previously showed that LONGIFOLIA (LNG1) and LONGIFOLIA2 (LNG2) genes regulate leaf morphology by promoting longitudinal cell elongation in Arabidopsis. In this study, we further characterized two homologs of LNG1, LNG3, and LNG4, using genetic, biophysical, and molecular approaches. Single loss-of-function mutants, lng3 and lng4, do not show any phenotypic difference, but mutants of lng quadruple (lngq), and lng1/2/3 and lng1/2/4 triples, display reduced leaf length, compared to wild type. Using the paradermal analysis, we conclude that the reduced leaf size of lngq is due to decreased cell elongation in the direction of longitudinal leaf growth, and not decreased cell proliferation. This data indicate that LNG1/2/3/4 are functionally redundant, and are involved in polar cell elongation in Arabidopsis leaf. Using a biophysical approach, we show that the LNGs contribute to maintain high turgor pressure, thus regulating turgor pressure-dependent polar cell elongation. In addition, gene expression analysis showed that LNGs positively regulate the expression of the cell wall modifying enzyme encoded by a multi-gene family, xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/hydrolase (XTH). Taking all of these together, we propose that LNG related genes play an important role in polar cell elongation by changing turgor pressure and controlling the activation of XTH17 and XTH24.
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- Young Koung Lee
- Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, South Korea.
- Division of Biological Sciences and Institute for Basic Science/Division of Biological Sciences and Research Institute for Glycoscience, Wonkwang University, Iksan, 54538, South Korea.
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Agricultural Plant Stress Research Center, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
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- Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E3, Canada
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Agricultural Plant Stress Research Center, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
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- Division of Biological Sciences and Institute for Basic Science/Division of Biological Sciences and Research Institute for Glycoscience, Wonkwang University, Iksan, 54538, South Korea
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, South Korea
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Ling J, Li R, Nwafor CC, Cheng J, Li M, Xu Q, Wu J, Gan L, Yang Q, Liu C, Chen M, Zhou Y, Cahoon EB, Zhang C. Development of iFOX-hunting as a functional genomic tool and demonstration of its use to identify early senescence-related genes in the polyploid Brassica napus. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2018; 16:591-602. [PMID: 28718508 PMCID: PMC5787830 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2017] [Revised: 06/29/2017] [Accepted: 07/12/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Functional genomic studies of many polyploid crops, including rapeseed (Brassica napus), are constrained by limited tool sets. Here we report development of a gain-of-function platform, termed 'iFOX (inducible Full-length cDNA OvereXpressor gene)-Hunting', for inducible expression of B. napus seed cDNAs in Arabidopsis. A Gateway-compatible plant gene expression vector containing a methoxyfenozide-inducible constitutive promoter for transgene expression was developed. This vector was used for cloning of random cDNAs from developing B. napus seeds and subsequent Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Arabidopsis. The inducible promoter of this vector enabled identification of genes upon induction that are otherwise lethal when constitutively overexpressed and to control developmental timing of transgene expression. Evaluation of a subset of the resulting ~6000 Arabidopsis transformants revealed a high percentage of lines with full-length B. napus transgene insertions. Upon induction, numerous iFOX lines with visible phenotypes were identified, including one that displayed early leaf senescence. Phenotypic analysis of this line (rsl-1327) after methoxyfenozide induction indicated high degree of leaf chlorosis. The integrated B. napuscDNA was identified as a homolog of an Arabidopsis acyl-CoA binding protein (ACBP) gene designated BnACBP1-like. The early senescence phenotype conferred by BnACBP1-like was confirmed by constitutive expression of this gene in Arabidopsis and B. napus. Use of the inducible promoter in the iFOX line coupled with RNA-Seq analyses allowed mechanistic clues and a working model for the phenotype associated with BnACBP1-like expression. Our results demonstrate the utility of iFOX-Hunting as a tool for gene discovery and functional characterization of Brassica napus genome.
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- Juan Ling
- National Research Centre of Rapeseed Engineering and TechnologyCollege of Plant Science and TechnologyHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Research Centre of Rapeseed Engineering and TechnologyCollege of Plant Science and TechnologyHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Research Centre of Rapeseed Engineering and TechnologyCollege of Plant Science and TechnologyHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
- Department of Crop ScienceBenson Idahosa UniversityBenin CityNigeria
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- National Research Centre of Rapeseed Engineering and TechnologyCollege of Plant Science and TechnologyHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- Department of BiotechnologyCollege of Life Science and TechnologyHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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- National Research Centre of Rapeseed Engineering and TechnologyCollege of Plant Science and TechnologyHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and PhysiologyYangzhou UniversityYangzhouChina
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- National Research Centre of Rapeseed Engineering and TechnologyCollege of Plant Science and TechnologyHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Research Centre of Rapeseed Engineering and TechnologyCollege of Plant Science and TechnologyHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Research Centre of Rapeseed Engineering and TechnologyCollege of Plant Science and TechnologyHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- Center for Plant Science Innovation and Department of BiochemistryUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNEUSA
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- National Research Centre of Rapeseed Engineering and TechnologyCollege of Plant Science and TechnologyHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Research Centre of Rapeseed Engineering and TechnologyCollege of Plant Science and TechnologyHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
- Center for Plant Science Innovation and Department of BiochemistryUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNEUSA
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- National Research Centre of Rapeseed Engineering and TechnologyCollege of Plant Science and TechnologyHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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Döll S, Kuhlmann M, Rutten T, Mette MF, Scharfenberg S, Petridis A, Berreth DC, Mock HP. Accumulation of the coumarin scopolin under abiotic stress conditions is mediated by the Arabidopsis thaliana THO/TREX complex. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2018; 93:431-444. [PMID: 29222952 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2015] [Revised: 11/15/2017] [Accepted: 11/23/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Secondary metabolites are involved in the plant stress response. Among these are scopolin and its active form scopoletin, which are coumarin derivatives associated with reactive oxygen species scavenging and pathogen defence. Here we show that scopolin accumulation can be induced in the root by osmotic stress and in the leaf by low-temperature stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. A genetic screen for altered scopolin levels in A. thaliana revealed a mutant compromised in scopolin accumulation in response to stress; the lesion was present in a homologue of THO1 coding for a subunit of the THO/TREX complex. The THO/TREX complex contributes to RNA silencing, supposedly by trafficking precursors of small RNAs. Mutants defective in THO, AGO1, SDS3 and RDR6 were impaired with respect to scopolin accumulation in response to stress, suggesting a mechanism based on RNA silencing such as the trans-acting small interfering RNA pathway, which requires THO/TREX function.
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- Stefanie Döll
- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany
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- Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany
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- Stress and Developmental Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Weinberg 3, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstraße 3, 06466, Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany
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A low degenerate primer pool improved the efficiency of high-efficiency thermal asymmetric interlaced PCR to amplify T-DNA flanking sequences in Arabidopsis thaliana. 3 Biotech 2018; 8:14. [PMID: 29259889 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-017-1032-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2017] [Accepted: 12/04/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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We employed hi-TAIL-PCR to identify T-DNA loci in our Arabidopsis activation tagging library and only a total of 28 (39%) insertion sites from 72 samples were characterized when the recommended primer pools, C1 and C2 were used. By comparison, we found C1 harboring relatively low degeneracy was more efficient to amplify the flanking sequences of T-DNA insertion than C2. We replaced the degenerate sequences in long arbitrary degenerate (LAD) primers with a piece of 16-bp degenerate sequence originally used in TAIL-PCR, which had the relatively low degeneracy. Our results showed that the new LAD primer pool N increased the valid amplifications and a total of 37 (51%) T-DNA loci were identified, indicating a more effective amplification of T-DNA flanking sequences in A. thaliana.
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Wang Z, Zheng Z, Song L, Liu D. Functional Characterization of Arabidopsis PHL4 in Plant Response to Phosphate Starvation. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1432. [PMID: 30327661 PMCID: PMC6174329 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2018] [Accepted: 09/10/2018] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Plants have evolved an array of adaptive responses to cope with phosphate (Pi) starvation. These responses are mainly controlled at the transcriptional level. In Arabidopsis, PHR1, a member of the MYB-CC transcription factor family, is a key component of the central regulatory system controlling plant transcriptional responses to Pi starvation. Its homologs in the MYB-CC family, PHL1 (PHR1-LIKE 1), PHL2, and perhaps also PHL3, act redundantly with PHR1 to regulate plant Pi starvation responses. The functions of PHR1's closest homolog in this family, PHL4, however, have not been characterized due to the lack of its null mutant. In this work, we generated two phl4 null mutants using the CRISPR/Cas9 technique and investigated the functions of PHL4 in plant responses to Pi starvation. The results indicated that the major developmental, physiological, and molecular responses of the phl4 mutants to Pi starvation did not significantly differ from those of the wild type. By comparing the phenotypes of the phr1 single mutant and phr1phl1 and phr1phl4 double mutants, we found that PHL4 also acts redundantly with PHR1 to regulate plant Pi responses, but that its effects are weaker than those of PHL1. We also found that the overexpression of PHL4 suppresses plant development under both Pi-sufficient and -deficient conditions. Taken together, the results indicate that PHL4 has only a minor role in the regulation of plant responses to Pi starvation and is a negative regulator of plant development.
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Aggarwal P, Challa KR, Rath M, Sunkara P, Nath U. Generation of Inducible Transgenic Lines of Arabidopsis Transcription Factors Regulated by MicroRNAs. Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1830:61-79. [PMID: 30043364 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8657-6_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Transcription factors play key regulatory roles in all the life processes across kingdoms. In plants, the genome of a typical model species such as Arabidopsis thaliana encodes over 1500 transcription factors that regulate the expression dynamics of all the genes in time and space. Therefore, studying their function by analyzing the loss and gain-of-function lines is of prime importance in basic plant biology and its agricultural application. However, the current approach of knocking out genes often causes embryonic lethal phenotype, while inactivating one or two members of a redundant gene family yields little phenotypic changes, thereby making the functional analysis a technically challenging task. In such cases, inducible knock-down or overexpression of transcription factors appears to be a more effective approach. Restricting the transcription factors in the cytoplasm by fusing them with animal glucocorticoid/estrogen receptors (GR/ER) and then re-localizing them to the nucleus by external application of animal hormone analogues has been a useful method of gene function analysis in the model plants. In this chapter, we describe the recent advancements in the GR and ER expression systems and their use in analyzing the function of transcription factors in Arabidopsis.
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- Pooja Aggarwal
- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
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The development of plant genetic transformation techniques has greatly enhanced our capacity to investigate and understand gene function. Since T-DNA constructs insert randomly in genomes, in principle, it is possible to construct a population of individuals harboring one or more T-DNA inserted in any region of the genome. Such populations can be screened following two approaches: (1) given a mutant phenotype, one could find the gene subtending the phenotypic alteration (forward approach), or (2) given a gene of interest, one could identify the phenotypic effect of its expression perturbation (reverse approach).Activation tagging is an application of T-DNA mutagenesis aimed at obtaining gain-of-function mutations. This can be achieved by introducing enhancer sequences randomly in the target genome via a T-DNA shuttle and then analyzing the genomic regions flanking the insertion sites in individuals showing phenotypic alterations. In this chapter, we describe the detailed procedure to obtain and screen an activation-tagged population in Medicago truncatula.
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von Schaewen A, Jeong IS, Rips S, Fukudome A, Tolley J, Nagashima Y, Fischer K, Kaulfuerst-Soboll H, Koiwa H. Improved recombinant protein production in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2018; 13:e1486149. [PMID: 29932798 PMCID: PMC6110358 DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2018.1486149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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UNLABELLED Production and isolation of recombinant proteins are key steps in modern Molecular Biology. Expression vectors and platforms for various hosts, including both prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems, have been used. In basic plant research, Arabidopsis thaliana is the central model for which a wealth of genetic and genomic resources is available, and enormous knowledge has been accumulated over the past years - especially since elucidation of its genome in 2000. However, until recently an Arabidopsis platform had been lacking for preparative-scale production of homologous recombinant proteins. We recently established an Arabidopsis-based super-expression system, and used it for a structural pilot study of a multi-subunit integral membrane protein complex. This review summarizes the benefits and further potential of the model plant system for protein productions. ABBREVIATIONS Nb, Nicotiana benthamiana; OT, oligosaccharyltransferase.
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- A. von Schaewen
- Molekulare Physiologie der Pflanzen; Institut für Biologie & Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center; Department of Horticultural Sciences; and Molecular and Environmental Plant Science Program, Texas A&M University; College Station, Texas, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering College of Creative Convergence Engineering, Catholic Kwandong University, Gangneung, Gangwon-do, South Korea
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- Molekulare Physiologie der Pflanzen; Institut für Biologie & Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center; Department of Horticultural Sciences; and Molecular and Environmental Plant Science Program, Texas A&M University; College Station, Texas, USA
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- Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center; Department of Horticultural Sciences; and Molecular and Environmental Plant Science Program, Texas A&M University; College Station, Texas, USA
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- Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center; Department of Horticultural Sciences; and Molecular and Environmental Plant Science Program, Texas A&M University; College Station, Texas, USA
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- Molekulare Physiologie der Pflanzen; Institut für Biologie & Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Molekulare Physiologie der Pflanzen; Institut für Biologie & Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center; Department of Horticultural Sciences; and Molecular and Environmental Plant Science Program, Texas A&M University; College Station, Texas, USA
- CONTACT Hisashi Koiwa
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Zhang B, Schrader A. TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA 1-Dependent Regulation of Flavonoid Biosynthesis. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2017; 6:E65. [PMID: 29261137 PMCID: PMC5750641 DOI: 10.3390/plants6040065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2017] [Revised: 12/02/2017] [Accepted: 12/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The flavonoid composition of various tissues throughout plant development is of biological relevance and particular interest for breeding. Arabidopsis thaliana TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA 1 (AtTTG1) is an essential regulator of late structural genes in flavonoid biosynthesis. Here, we provide a review of the regulation of the pathway's core enzymes through AtTTG1-containing R2R3-MYELOBLASTOSIS-basic HELIX-LOOP-HELIX-WD40 repeat (MBW(AtTTG1)) complexes embedded in an evolutionary context. We present a comprehensive collection of A. thalianattg1 mutants and AtTTG1 orthologs. A plethora of MBW(AtTTG1) mechanisms in regulating the five major TTG1-dependent traits is highlighted.
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- Bipei Zhang
- Botanical Institute, University of Cologne, Zuelpicher Str 47B, 50674 Cologne, Germany.
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- Botanical Institute, University of Cologne, Zuelpicher Str 47B, 50674 Cologne, Germany.
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Zhu JY, Li Y, Cao DM, Yang H, Oh E, Bi Y, Zhu S, Wang ZY. The F-box Protein KIB1 Mediates Brassinosteroid-Induced Inactivation and Degradation of GSK3-like Kinases in Arabidopsis. Mol Cell 2017; 66:648-657.e4. [PMID: 28575660 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2016] [Revised: 04/05/2017] [Accepted: 05/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) family kinases are central cellular regulators highly conserved in all eukaryotes. In Arabidopsis, the GSK3-like kinase BIN2 phosphorylates a range of proteins to control broad developmental processes, and BIN2 is degraded through unknown mechanism upon receptor kinase-mediated brassinosteroid (BR) signaling. Here we identify KIB1 as an F-box E3 ubiquitin ligase that promotes the degradation of BIN2 while blocking its substrate access. Loss-of-function mutations of KIB1 and its homologs abolished BR-induced BIN2 degradation and caused severe BR-insensitive phenotypes. KIB1 directly interacted with BIN2 in a BR-dependent manner and promoted BIN2 ubiquitination in vitro. Expression of an F-box-truncated KIB1 caused BIN2 accumulation but dephosphorylation of its substrate BZR1 and activation of BR responses because KIB1 blocked BIN2 binding to BZR1. Our study demonstrates that KIB1 plays an essential role in BR signaling by inhibiting BIN2 through dual mechanisms of blocking substrate access and promoting degradation.
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- Jia-Ying Zhu
- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; Institute of Horticulture, Shanxi Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Taiyuan 030031, China
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Bioenergy Science and Technology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, South Korea
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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Manimaran P, Venkata Reddy S, Moin M, Raghurami Reddy M, Yugandhar P, Mohanraj SS, Balachandran SM, Kirti PB. Activation-tagging in indica rice identifies a novel transcription factor subunit, NF-YC13 associated with salt tolerance. Sci Rep 2017; 7:9341. [PMID: 28839256 PMCID: PMC5570948 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10022-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2017] [Accepted: 08/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Nuclear factor Y (NF-Y) is a heterotrimeric transcription factor with three distinct NF-YA, NF-YB and NF-YC subunits. It plays important roles in plant growth, development and stress responses. We have reported earlier on development of gain-of-function mutants in an indica rice cultivar, BPT-5204. Now, we screened 927 seeds from 70 Ac/Ds plants for salinity tolerance and identified one activation-tagged salt tolerant DS plant (DS-16, T3 generation) that showed enhanced expression of a novel 'histone-like transcription factor' belonging to rice NF-Y subfamily C and was named as OsNF-YC13. Localization studies using GFP-fusion showed that the protein is localized to nucleus and cytoplasm. Real time expression analysis confirmed upregulation of transcript levels of OsNF-YC13 during salt treatment in a tissue specific manner. Biochemical and physiological characterization of the DS-16 revealed enhanced K+/Na+ ratio, proline content, chlorophyll content, enzymes with antioxidant activity etc. DS-16 also showed transcriptional up-regulation of genes that are involved in salinity tolerance. In-silico analysis of OsNF-YC13 promoter region evidenced the presence of various key stress-responsive cis-regulatory elements. OsNF-YC13 subunit alone does not appear to have the capacity for direct transcription activation, but appears to interact with the B- subunits in the process of transactivation.
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- P Manimaran
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 5000046, India.
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 5000046, India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 5000046, India
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- Indian Institute of Rice Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 500030, India
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- Indian Institute of Rice Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 500030, India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 5000046, India
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- Indian Institute of Rice Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 500030, India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 5000046, India.
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Hsia MM, O'Malley R, Cartwright A, Nieu R, Gordon SP, Kelly S, Williams TG, Wood DF, Zhao Y, Bragg J, Jordan M, Pauly M, Ecker JR, Gu Y, Vogel JP. Sequencing and functional validation of the JGI Brachypodium distachyon T-DNA collection. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 91:361-370. [PMID: 28432803 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2017] [Revised: 04/13/2017] [Accepted: 04/18/2017] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Due to a large and growing collection of genomic and experimental resources, Brachypodium distachyon has emerged as a powerful experimental model for the grasses. To add to these resources we sequenced 21 165 T-DNA lines, 15 569 of which were produced in this study. This increased the number of unique insertion sites in the T-DNA collection by 21 078, bringing the overall total to 26 112. Thirty-seven per cent (9754) of these insertion sites are within genes (including untranslated regions and introns) and 28% (7217) are within 500 bp of a gene. Approximately 31% of the genes in the v.2.1 annotation have been tagged in this population. To demonstrate the utility of this collection, we phenotypically characterized six T-DNA lines with insertions in genes previously shown in other systems to be involved in cellulose biosynthesis, hemicellulose biosynthesis, secondary cell wall development, DNA damage repair, wax biosynthesis and chloroplast synthesis. In all cases, the phenotypes observed supported previous studies, demonstrating the utility of this collection for plant functional genomics. The Brachypodium T-DNA collection can be accessed at http://jgi.doe.gov/our-science/science-programs/plant-genomics/brachypodium/brachypodium-t-dna-collection/.
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- Mon Mandy Hsia
- USDA ARS Western Regional Research Center, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA, 94710-1105, USA
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- Genomic Analysis Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
- DOE Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Dr., Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, USA
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- USDA ARS Western Regional Research Center, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA, 94710-1105, USA
- DOE Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Dr., Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, USA
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- USDA ARS Western Regional Research Center, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA, 94710-1105, USA
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- DOE Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Dr., Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, USA
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- Cereal Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 101 Route 100, Unit 100, Morden, MB, R6M 1Y5, Canada
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- USDA ARS Western Regional Research Center, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA, 94710-1105, USA
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- USDA ARS Western Regional Research Center, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA, 94710-1105, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, 111 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- USDA ARS Western Regional Research Center, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA, 94710-1105, USA
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- Cereal Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 101 Route 100, Unit 100, Morden, MB, R6M 1Y5, Canada
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, 111 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Genomic Analysis Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- USDA ARS Western Regional Research Center, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA, 94710-1105, USA
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- USDA ARS Western Regional Research Center, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA, 94710-1105, USA
- DOE Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Dr., Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, USA
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, 111 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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Tian H, Wang X, Guo H, Cheng Y, Hou C, Chen JG, Wang S. NTL8 Regulates Trichome Formation in Arabidopsis by Directly Activating R3 MYB Genes TRY and TCL1. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 174:2363-2375. [PMID: 28649093 PMCID: PMC5543959 DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.00510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2017] [Accepted: 06/19/2017] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The NAM, ATAF1/2, and CUC (NAC) are plant-specific transcription factors that regulate multiple aspects of plant growth and development and plant response to environmental stimuli. We report here the identification of NTM1-LIKE8 (NTL8), a membrane-associated NAC transcription factor, as a novel regulator of trichome formation in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). From an activation-tagged Arabidopsis population, we identified a dominant, gain-of-function mutant with glabrous inflorescence stem. By using plasmid rescue and RT-PCR analyses, we found that NTL8 was tagged; thus, the mutant was named ntl8-1 Dominant (ntl8-1D). Recapitulation experiment further confirmed that the phenotype observed in the ntl8-1D mutant was caused by elevated expression of NTL8 Quantitative RT-PCR results showed that the expression level of the single-repeat R3 MYB genes TRIPTYCHON (TRY) and TRICHOMELESS1 (TCL1) was elevated in the ntl8-1D mutant. Genetic analyses demonstrated that NTL8 acts upstream of TRY and TCL1 in the regulation of trichome formation. When recruited to the promoter region of the reporter gene Gal4:GUS by a fused GAL4 DNA-binding domain, NTL8 activated the expression of the reporter gene. Chromatin immunoprecipitation results indicated that TRY and TCL1 are direct targets of NTL8. However, NTL8 did not interact with SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN LIKE9, another transcription factor that regulates the expression of TRY and TCL1, in yeast and plant cells. Taken together, our results suggest that NTL8 negatively regulates trichome formation in Arabidopsis by directly activating the expression of TRY and TCL1.
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- Hainan Tian
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE and Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE and Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE and Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE and Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE and Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE and Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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Huang J, Li Z, Biener G, Xiong E, Malik S, Eaton N, Zhao CZ, Raicu V, Kong H, Zhao D. Carbonic Anhydrases Function in Anther Cell Differentiation Downstream of the Receptor-Like Kinase EMS1. THE PLANT CELL 2017; 29:1335-1356. [PMID: 28522549 PMCID: PMC5502440 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.16.00484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2016] [Revised: 04/21/2017] [Accepted: 05/13/2017] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Plants extensively employ leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinases (LRR-RLKs), the largest family of RLKs, to control a wide range of growth and developmental processes as well as defense responses. To date, only a few direct downstream effectors for LRR-RLKs have been identified. We previously showed that the LRR-RLK EMS1 (EXCESS MICROSPOROCYTES1) and its ligand TPD1 (TAPETUM DETERMINANT1) are required for the differentiation of somatic tapetal cells and reproductive microsporocytes during early anther development in Arabidopsis thaliana Here, we report the identification of β-carbonic anhydrases (βCAs) as the direct downstream targets of EMS1. EMS1 biochemically interacts with βCA proteins. Loss of function of βCA genes caused defective tapetal cell differentiation, while overexpression of βCA1 led to the formation of extra tapetal cells. EMS1 phosphorylates βCA1 at four sites, resulting in increased βCA1 activity. Furthermore, phosphorylation-blocking mutations impaired the function of βCA1 in tapetal cell differentiation; however, a phosphorylation mimic mutation promoted the formation of tapetal cells. βCAs are also involved in pH regulation in tapetal cells. Our findings highlight the role of βCA in controlling cell differentiation and provide insights into the posttranslational modification of carbonic anhydrases via receptor-like kinase-mediated phosphorylation.
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- Jian Huang
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhenzhou 450002, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
- College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
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Hellmann E, Swinka C, Heyl A. Novel in vivo screening design for the rapid and cost-effective identification of transcriptional regulators. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2017; 160:2-10. [PMID: 28116793 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2016] [Revised: 12/22/2016] [Accepted: 01/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Genetic screens are a common tool to identify new modulators in a defined context, e.g. hormonal response or environmental stress. However, most screens are either in vitro or laborious and time-and-space inefficient. Here we present a novel in planta screening approach that shortens the time from the actual screening process to the identification of a new modulator and simultaneously reduces space requirements and costs. The basic features of this screening approach are the creation of luciferase reporter plants which enable a non-invasive readout in a streamlined multiplate reader process, the transformation of those plants with an inducible, Gateway™-compatible expression vector, and a screening setup, in which whole plants at the seedling stage are screened in 96-multiwell plates in the first transformed generation without the use of an expensive charge-coupled device (CCD) camera system. The screening itself and the verification of candidates can be done in as little as 2-3 weeks. The screen enables the analysis of reporter gene activity upon different treatments. Primary positive plants can immediately be selected and grown further. In this study a fast, simple, cost- and space-efficient in planta screening system to detect novel mediators of a given transcriptional response was developed and successfully tested using the cytokinin signal transduction as a test case.
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- Eva Hellmann
- Institute of Biology/Applied Genetics, Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, 14195, Germany
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- Institute of Biology/Applied Genetics, Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, 14195, Germany
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- Institute of Biology/Applied Genetics, Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, 14195, Germany
- Biology Department, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, 11530-070, US
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Xiao C, Barnes WJ, Zamil MS, Yi H, Puri VM, Anderson CT. Activation tagging of Arabidopsis POLYGALACTURONASE INVOLVED IN EXPANSION2 promotes hypocotyl elongation, leaf expansion, stem lignification, mechanical stiffening, and lodging. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 89:1159-1173. [PMID: 28004869 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2016] [Revised: 11/14/2016] [Accepted: 12/08/2016] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Pectin is the most abundant component of primary cell walls in eudicot plants. The modification and degradation of pectin affects multiple processes during plant development, including cell expansion, organ initiation, and cell separation. However, the extent to which pectin degradation by polygalacturonases affects stem development and secondary wall formation remains unclear. Using an activation tag screen, we identified a transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana line with longer etiolated hypocotyls, which overexpresses a gene encoding a polygalacturonase. We designated this gene as POLYGALACTURONASE INVOLVED IN EXPANSION2 (PGX2), and the corresponding activation tagged line as PGX2AT . PGX2 is widely expressed in young seedlings and in roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and siliques of adult plants. PGX2-GFP localizes to the cell wall, and PGX2AT plants show higher total polygalacturonase activity and smaller pectin molecular masses than wild-type controls, supporting a function for this protein in apoplastic pectin degradation. A heterologously expressed, truncated version of PGX2 also displays polygalacturonase activity in vitro. Like previously identified PGX1AT plants, PGX2AT plants have longer hypocotyls and larger rosette leaves, but they also uniquely display early flowering, earlier stem lignification, and lodging stems with enhanced mechanical stiffness that is possibly due to decreased stem thickness. Together, these results indicate that PGX2 both functions in cell expansion and influences secondary wall formation, providing a possible link between these two developmental processes.
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- Chaowen Xiao
- Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Kim AR, Min JH, Lee KH, Kim CS. PCA22 acts as a suppressor of atrzf1 to mediate proline accumulation in response to abiotic stress in Arabidopsis. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2017; 68:1797-1809. [PMID: 28369480 PMCID: PMC5444443 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erx069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Proline metabolism is important for environmental responses, plant growth, and development. However, its precise roles in plant abiotic stress tolerance are not well understood. Mutants are valuable for the identification of new genes and for elucidating their roles in physiological mechanisms. We applied a suppressor mutation approach to identify novel genes involved in the regulation of proline metabolism in Arabidopsis. Using the atrzf1 (Arabidopsis thaliana ring zinc finger 1) mutant as a parental line for activation tagging mutagenesis, we selected several mutants with suppressed induction of proline accumulation under dehydration conditions. One of the selected mutants [proline content alterative 22 (pca22)] appeared to have reduced proline contents compared with the atrzf1 mutant under drought stress. Generally, pca22 mutant plants displayed suppressed atrzf1 insensitivity to dehydration and abscisic acid during early seedling growth. Additionally, the pca22 mutant exhibited shorter pollen tube length than wild-type (WT) and atrzf1 plants. Furthermore, PCA22-overexpressing plants were more sensitive to dehydration stress than the WT and RNAi lines. Green fluorescent protein-tagged PCA22 was localized to the cytoplasm of transgenic Arabidopsis cells. Collectively, these results suggest that pca22 acts as dominant suppressor mutant of atrzf1 in the abiotic stress response.
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- Ah-Reum Kim
- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Rural and Biosystems Engineering, Agricultural Robotics and Automation Research Center, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea
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Yin G, Wang W, Niu H, Ding Y, Zhang D, Zhang J, Liu G, Wang S, Zhang H. Jasmonate-Sensitivity-Assisted Screening and Characterization of Nicotine Synthetic Mutants from Activation-Tagged Population of Tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum L.). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:157. [PMID: 28243248 PMCID: PMC5303748 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2016] [Accepted: 01/25/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Nicotine is a secondary metabolite that is important to the defense system and commercial quality of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.). Jasmonate and its derivatives (JAs) are phytohormone regulators of nicotine formation; however, the underlying molecular mechanism of this process remains largely unclear. Owing to the amphitetraploid origin of N. tabacum, research on screening and identification of nicotine-synthetic mutants is relatively scarce. Here, we describe a method based on JA-sensitivity for screening nicotine mutants from an activation-tagged population of tobacco. In this approach, the mutants were first screened for abnormal JA responses in seed germination and root elongation, and then the levels of nicotine synthesis and expression of nicotine synthetic genes in the mutants with altered JA-response were measured to determine the nicotine-synthetic mutants. We successfully obtained five mutants that maintained stable nicotine contents and JA responses for three generations. This method is simple, effective and low-cost, and the finding of transcriptional changes of nicotine synthetic genes in the mutants shows potentials for identifying novel regulators involved in JA-regulated nicotine biosynthesis.
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- Guoying Yin
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesQingdao, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesQingdao, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesQingdao, China
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Song SK. Misexpression of AtTX12 encoding a Toll/interleukin-1 receptor domain induces growth defects and expression of defense-related genes partially independently of EDS1 in Arabidopsis. BMB Rep 2017; 49:693-698. [PMID: 27802841 PMCID: PMC5346315 DOI: 10.5483/bmbrep.2016.49.12.180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In this study, a tissue-specific GAL4/UAS activation tagging system was used for the characterization of genes which could induce lethality when ubiquitously expressed. A dominant mutant exhibiting stunted growth was isolated and named defective root development 1-D (drd1-D). The T-DNA tag was located within the promoter region of AtTX12, which is predicted to encode a truncated nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) protein, containing a Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domain. The transcript levels of AtTX12 and defense-related genes were elevated in drd1-D, and the misexpression of AtTX12 recapitulated the drd1-D phenotypes. In the presence of ENHANCED DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY 1 (EDS1), a key transducer of signals triggered by TIR-type NLRs, a low-level of AtTX12 misexpression induced strong defective phenotypes including seedling lethality whereas, in the absence of EDS1, a high-level of AtTX12 misexpression induced weak growth defects like dwarfism, suggesting that AtTX12 might function mainly in an EDS1-dependent and partially in an EDS1-independent manner. [BMB Reports 2016; 49(12): 693–698]
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- Sang-Kee Song
- Department of Biology, Chosun University, Gwangju 61452, Korea
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Li Y, Heckmann D, Lercher MJ, Maurino VG. Combining genetic and evolutionary engineering to establish C4 metabolism in C3 plants. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2017; 68:117-125. [PMID: 27660481 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erw333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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To feed a world population projected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, the productivity of major crops must be increased by at least 50%. One potential route to boost the productivity of cereals is to equip them genetically with the 'supercharged' C4 type of photosynthesis; however, the necessary genetic modifications are not sufficiently understood for the corresponding genetic engineering programme. In this opinion paper, we discuss a strategy to solve this problem by developing a new paradigm for plant breeding. We propose combining the bioengineering of well-understood traits with subsequent evolutionary engineering, i.e. mutagenesis and artificial selection. An existing mathematical model of C3-C4 evolution is used to choose the most promising path towards this goal. Based on biomathematical simulations, we engineer Arabidopsis thaliana plants that express the central carbon-fixing enzyme Rubisco only in bundle sheath cells (Ru-BSC plants), the localization characteristic for C4 plants. This modification will initially be deleterious, forcing the Ru-BSC plants into a fitness valley from where previously inaccessible adaptive steps towards C4 photosynthesis become accessible through fitness-enhancing mutations. Mutagenized Ru-BSC plants are then screened for improved photosynthesis, and are expected to respond to imposed artificial selection pressures by evolving towards C4 anatomy and biochemistry.
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- Yuanyuan Li
- Institute of Developmental and Molecular Biology of Plants, Plant Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology Group, Heinrich Heine University, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute for Computer Science, Heinrich Heine University, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Computer Science, Heinrich Heine University, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Computer Science, Heinrich Heine University, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental and Molecular Biology of Plants, Plant Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology Group, Heinrich Heine University, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Zhang J, Yu D, Zhang Y, Liu K, Xu K, Zhang F, Wang J, Tan G, Nie X, Ji Q, Zhao L, Li C. Vacuum and Co-cultivation Agroinfiltration of (Germinated) Seeds Results in Tobacco Rattle Virus (TRV) Mediated Whole-Plant Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) in Wheat and Maize. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:393. [PMID: 28382049 PMCID: PMC5360694 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2016] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Tobacco rattle virus (TRV)-mediated virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) has been frequently used in dicots. Here we show that it can also be used in monocots, by presenting a system involving use of a novel infiltration solution (containing acetosyringone, cysteine, and Tween 20) that enables whole-plant level VIGS of (germinated) seeds in wheat and maize. Using the established system, phytoene desaturase (PDS) genes were successfully silenced, resulting in typical photo-bleaching symptoms in the leaves of treated wheat and maize. In addition, three wheat homoeoalleles of MLO, a key gene repressing defense responses to powdery mildew in wheat, were simultaneously silenced in susceptible wheat with this system, resulting in it becoming resistant to powdery mildew. The system has the advantages generally associated with TRV-mediated VIGS systems (e.g., high-efficiency, mild virus infection symptoms, and effectiveness in different organs). However, it also has the following further advantages: (germinated) seed-stage agroinfiltration; greater rapidity and convenience; whole-plant level gene silencing; adequately stable transformation; and suitability for studying functions of genes involved in seed germination and early plant development stages.
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- Ju Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
- Henan Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding and Bioreactor, ZhoukouChina
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
- Henan Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding and Bioreactor, ZhoukouChina
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
- Henan Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding and Bioreactor, ZhoukouChina
- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, ZhengzhouChina
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
- Henan Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding and Bioreactor, ZhoukouChina
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
- Henan Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding and Bioreactor, ZhoukouChina
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- College of Life Science and Agronomy, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
- Henan Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding and Bioreactor, ZhoukouChina
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
- Henan Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding and Bioreactor, ZhoukouChina
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
- Henan Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding and Bioreactor, ZhoukouChina
- College of Life Science and Agronomy, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
- Henan Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding and Bioreactor, ZhoukouChina
- College of Life Science and Agronomy, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
- Henan Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding and Bioreactor, ZhoukouChina
- College of Life Science and Agronomy, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhoukouChina
- Henan Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding and Bioreactor, ZhoukouChina
- College of Life Science and Technology, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, XinxiangChina
- *Correspondence: Chengwei Li,
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Survila M, Davidsson PR, Pennanen V, Kariola T, Broberg M, Sipari N, Heino P, Palva ET. Peroxidase-Generated Apoplastic ROS Impair Cuticle Integrity and Contribute to DAMP-Elicited Defenses. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1945. [PMID: 28066496 PMCID: PMC5179520 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Accepted: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Cuticular defects trigger a battery of reactions including enhanced reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and resistance to necrotrophic pathogens. However, the source of ROS generated by such impaired cuticles has remained elusive. Here, we report the characterization of Arabidopsis thaliana ohy1 mutant, a Peroxidase 57 (PER57) - overexpressing line that demonstrates enhanced defense responses that result both from increased accumulation of ROS and permeability of the leaf cuticle. The ohy1 mutant was identified in a screen of A. thaliana seedlings for oligogalacturonides (OGs) insensitive/hypersensitive mutants that exhibit altered growth retardation in response to exogenous OGs. Mutants impaired in OG sensitivity were analyzed for disease resistance/susceptibility to the necrotrophic phytopathogens Botrytis cinerea and Pectobacterium carotovorum. In the ohy1 line, the hypersensitivity to OGs was associated with resistance to the tested pathogens. This PER57 overexpressing line exhibited a significantly more permeable leaf cuticle than wild-type plants and this phenotype could be recapitulated by overexpressing other class III peroxidases. Such peroxidase overexpression was accompanied by the suppressed expression of cutin biosynthesis genes and the enhanced expression of genes associated with OG-signaling. Application of ABA completely removed ROS, restored the expression of genes associated with cuticle biosynthesis and led to decreased permeability of the leaf cuticle, and finally, abolished immunity to B. cinerea. Our work demonstrates that increased peroxidase activity increases permeability of the leaf cuticle. The loss of cuticle integrity primes plant defenses to necrotrophic pathogens via the activation of DAMP-responses.
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- Division of Genetics, Viikki Plant Science Centre, Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of HelsinkiHelsinki, Finland
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Functional roles of Arabidopsis CKRC2/YUCCA8 gene and the involvement of PIF4 in the regulation of auxin biosynthesis by cytokinin. Sci Rep 2016; 6:36866. [PMID: 27827441 PMCID: PMC5101810 DOI: 10.1038/srep36866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2016] [Accepted: 10/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Auxin and cytokinin (CK) are both important hormones involved in many aspects of plant growth and development. However, the details of auxin biosynthesis and the interaction between auxin and CK are still unclear. Isolation and characterization of an auxin deficient mutant cytokinin induced root curling 2 (ckrc2) in this work reveal that CKRC2 encodes a previously identified member of YUCCA (YUC) flavin monooxygenase-like proteins (YUC8). Our results show that, like other YUCs, CKRC2/YUC8 is a rate-limiting enzyme for catalyzing the conversion of indole-3-pyruvic acid (IPyA) to indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), acting downstream of CKRC1/TAA1 in the IPyA pathway. Here we show that the transcription of both CKRC1/TAA and CKRC2/YUC8 can be induced by CK and that the phytochrome-interacting factor 4 (PIF4) is required for this upregulation. Transcription of PIF4 itself is induced by CK via the AHKs-ARR1/12 signalling pathway. These results indicate that PIF4 plays an essential role in mediating the regulatory effect of CK on the transcriptions of CKRC1 and CKRC2 genes in the IPyA pathway of auxin biosynthesis.
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Why I Love Genetics: Essay on Occasion of Being Awarded the GSA Medal 2016. Genetics 2016; 204:841-843. [PMID: 28114098 PMCID: PMC5105863 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.196212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Lee WJ, Jeong CY, Kwon J, Van Kien V, Lee D, Hong SW, Lee H. Drastic anthocyanin increase in response to PAP1 overexpression in fls1 knockout mutant confers enhanced osmotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2016; 35:2369-2379. [PMID: 27562381 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-016-2040-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2016] [Accepted: 08/10/2016] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE : pap1 - D/fls1ko double mutant plants that produce substantial amounts of anthocyanin show tolerance to abiotic stress. Anthocyanins are flavonoids that are abundant in various plants and have beneficial effects on both plants and humans. Many genes in flavonoid biosynthetic pathways have been identified, including those in the MYB-bHLH-WD40 (MBW) complex. The MYB gene Production of Anthocyanin Pigment 1 (PAP1) plays a particularly important role in anthocyanin accumulation. PAP1 expression in many plant systems strongly increases anthocyanin levels, resulting in a dark purple color in many plant organs. In this study, we generated double mutant plants that harbor fls1ko in the pap1-D background (i.e., pap1-D/fls1ko plants), to examine whether anthocyanins can be further enhanced by blocking flavonol biosynthesis under PAP1 overexpression. We also wanted to examine whether the increased anthocyanin levels contribute to defense against osmotic stresses. The pap1-D/fls1ko mutants accumulated higher anthocyanin levels than pap1-D plants in both control and sucrose-treated conditions. However, flavonoid biosynthesis genes were slightly down-regulated in the pap1-D/fls1ko seedlings as compared to their expression in pap1-D seedlings. We also report the performance of pap1-D/fls1ko seedlings in response to plant osmotic stresses.
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- Won Je Lee
- Department of Biosystems and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Anam-dong 5-ga, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea
- Institute of Life Science and Natural Resources, Korea University, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biosystems and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Anam-dong 5-ga, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea
- Institute of Life Science and Natural Resources, Korea University, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biosystems and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Anam-dong 5-ga, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Bioenergy Research Center, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biosystems and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Anam-dong 5-ga, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Bioenergy Research Center, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Biosystems and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Anam-dong 5-ga, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea.
- Institute of Life Science and Natural Resources, Korea University, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea.
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Moin M, Bakshi A, Saha A, Udaya Kumar M, Reddy AR, Rao KV, Siddiq EA, Kirti PB. Activation tagging in indica rice identifies ribosomal proteins as potential targets for manipulation of water-use efficiency and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2016; 39:2440-2459. [PMID: 27411514 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2016] [Revised: 07/01/2016] [Accepted: 07/03/2016] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We have generated 3900 enhancer-based activation-tagged plants, in addition to 1030 stable Dissociator-enhancer plants in a widely cultivated indica rice variety, BPT-5204. Of them, 3000 were screened for water-use efficiency (WUE) by analysing photosynthetic quantum efficiency and yield-related attributes under water-limiting conditions that identified 200 activation-tagged mutants, which were analysed for flanking sequences at the site of enhancer integration in the genome. We have further selected five plants with low Δ13 C, high quantum efficiency and increased plant yield compared with wild type for a detailed investigation. Expression studies of 18 genes in these mutants revealed that in four plants one of the three to four tagged genes became activated, while two genes were concurrently up-regulated in the fifth plant. Two genes coding for proteins involved in 60S ribosomal assembly, RPL6 and RPL23A, were among those that became activated by enhancers. Quantitative expression analysis of these two genes also corroborated the results on activating-tagging. The high up-regulation of RPL6 and RPL23A in various stress treatments and the presence of significant cis-regulatory elements in their promoter regions along with the high up-regulation of several of RPL genes in various stress treatments indicate that they are potential targets for manipulating WUE/abiotic stress tolerance.
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- Mazahar Moin
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, India
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- Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences - GKVK, Hebbal, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, India
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 500007, India
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- Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, PJTS Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 500030, India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, India.
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Cheng H, Gao J, Cai H, Zhu J, Huang H. Gain-of-function in Arabidopsis (GAINA) for identifying functional genes in Hevea brasiliensis. SPRINGERPLUS 2016; 5:1853. [PMID: 27818891 PMCID: PMC5075328 DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-3523-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2016] [Accepted: 10/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Forward genetics approaches are not popularly applied in non-model plants due to their complex genomes, long life cycles, backward genetic studies etc. Researchers have to adopt reverse genetic methods to characterize gene functions in non-model plants individually, the efficiency of which is usually low. RESULTS In this study, we report a gain-of-function in Arabidopsis (GAINA) strategy which can be used for batch identification of functional genes in a plant species. This strategy aims to obtain the gain-of-function of rubber tree genes through overexpressing transformation ready full-length cDNA libraries in Arabidopsis. An initial transformation test produced about two thousand independent transgenic Arabidopsis lines, in which multiple obvious aberrant phenotypes were observed, suggesting the gain-of-function of rubber tree genes. The transferred genes were further isolated and identified. One gene identified to be metallothionein-like protein type 3 gene was further transferred into Arabidopsis and reproduced a similar aberrant phenotype. CONCLUSION The GAINA system proves to be an efficient tool for batch identification of functional genes in Hevea brasiliensis, and also applicable in other non-model plants.
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- Han Cheng
- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Agriculture for Tropical Crops Physiology, Rubber Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Danzhou City, Hainan People’s Republic of China
- Rubber Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Danzhou, 571737 Hainan People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Agriculture for Tropical Crops Physiology, Rubber Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Danzhou City, Hainan People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Agriculture for Tropical Crops Physiology, Rubber Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Danzhou City, Hainan People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Agriculture for Tropical Crops Physiology, Rubber Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Danzhou City, Hainan People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Agriculture for Tropical Crops Physiology, Rubber Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Danzhou City, Hainan People’s Republic of China
- Rubber Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Danzhou, 571737 Hainan People’s Republic of China
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Nicolas M, Cubas P. TCP factors: new kids on the signaling block. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 33:33-41. [PMID: 27310029 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2016.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2016] [Revised: 05/16/2016] [Accepted: 05/25/2016] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The TCP transcription factors govern key plant developmental processes and have profound effects on the growth patterns of meristems and organs, partly explained by direct transcriptional control of cell cycle genes. This view is nevertheless incomplete, as accumulated evidence indicates that TCPs also act through other mechanisms, such as the regulation of hormone activity. Several TCP factors not only act as mediators of hormone-induced changes in cell proliferation, but also as modulators, or even key players, of hormone synthesis, transport and signal transduction. This adds another layer of complexity to the role of TCPs in plant development.
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- Michael Nicolas
- Plant Molecular Genetics Department, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología/CSIC, Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Plant Molecular Genetics Department, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología/CSIC, Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
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Abe K, Ichikawa H. Gene Overexpression Resources in Cereals for Functional Genomics and Discovery of Useful Genes. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1359. [PMID: 27708649 PMCID: PMC5030214 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2016] [Accepted: 08/26/2016] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Identification and elucidation of functions of plant genes is valuable for both basic and applied research. In addition to natural variation in model plants, numerous loss-of-function resources have been produced by mutagenesis with chemicals, irradiation, or insertions of transposable elements or T-DNA. However, we may be unable to observe loss-of-function phenotypes for genes with functionally redundant homologs and for those essential for growth and development. To offset such disadvantages, gain-of-function transgenic resources have been exploited. Activation-tagged lines have been generated using obligatory overexpression of endogenous genes by random insertion of an enhancer. Recent progress in DNA sequencing technology and bioinformatics has enabled the preparation of genomewide collections of full-length cDNAs (fl-cDNAs) in some model species. Using the fl-cDNA clones, a novel gain-of-function strategy, Fl-cDNA OvereXpressor gene (FOX)-hunting system, has been developed. A mutant phenotype in a FOX line can be directly attributed to the overexpressed fl-cDNA. Investigating a large population of FOX lines could reveal important genes conferring favorable phenotypes for crop breeding. Alternatively, a unique loss-of-function approach Chimeric REpressor gene Silencing Technology (CRES-T) has been developed. In CRES-T, overexpression of a chimeric repressor, composed of the coding sequence of a transcription factor (TF) and short peptide designated as the repression domain, could interfere with the action of endogenous TF in plants. Although plant TFs usually consist of gene families, CRES-T is effective, in principle, even for the TFs with functional redundancy. In this review, we focus on the current status of the gene-overexpression strategies and resources for identifying and elucidating novel functions of cereal genes. We discuss the potential of these research tools for identifying useful genes and phenotypes for application in crop breeding.
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- Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationTsukuba, Japan
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