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Horton MW, Willems G, Sasaki E, Koornneef M, Nordborg M. The genetic architecture of freezing tolerance varies across the range of Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2016; 39:2570-2579. [PMID: 27487257 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2016] [Accepted: 07/28/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The capacity to tolerate freezing temperatures limits the geographical distribution of many plants, including several species of agricultural importance. However, the genes involved in freezing tolerance remain largely unknown. Here, we describe the variation in constitutive freezing tolerance that occurs among worldwide accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana. We found that although plants from high latitudes tend to be more freezing tolerant than plants from low latitudes, the environmental factors that shape cold adaptation differ across the species range. Consistent with this, we found that the genetic architecture of freezing tolerance also differs across its range. Conventional genome-wide association studies helped identify a priori and other promising candidate genes. However, simultaneously modelling climate variables and freezing tolerance together pinpointed other excellent a priori candidate genes. This suggests that if the selective factor underlying phenotypic variation is known, multi-trait mixed models may aid in identifying the genes that underlie adaptation.
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- Matthew W Horton
- Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 1030, Austria.
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, CH-8008, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 1030, Austria
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- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D-50892, Cologne, Germany
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 1030, Austria
- Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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Zhang ZW, Wu ZL, Feng LY, Dong LH, Song AJ, Yuan M, Chen YE, Zeng J, Chen GD, Yuan S. Mg-Protoporphyrin IX Signals Enhance Plant's Tolerance to Cold Stress. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1545. [PMID: 27803706 PMCID: PMC5068135 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2016] [Accepted: 10/03/2016] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The relationship between Mg-protoporphyrin IX (Mg-Proto IX) signals and plant's tolerance to cold stress is investigated. Arabidopsis seedlings grown for 3 weeks were pretreated with 2 mM glutamate (Glu) and 2 mM MgCl2 for 48 h at room temperature to induce Mg-Proto IX accumulation. Then cold stress was performed at 4°C for additional 72 h. Glu + MgCl2 pre-treatments alleviated the subsequent cold stress significantly by rising the leaf temperature through inducing Mg-Proto IX signals. The protective role of Glu + MgCl2 treatment was greatly compromised in the mutants of Mg-Proto IX synthesis, Mg-Proto IX signaling, and cyanide-resistant respiration. And the enhancement of cold-responsive gene expression was greatly compromised in the mutants of Mg-Proto IX synthesis, Mg-Proto IX signaling and ABA signaling, but not in the mutant of cyanide-resistant respiration. Cold stress promoted cyanide-resistant respiration and leaf total respiration exponentially, which could be further induced by the Glu + MgCl2 treatment. Mg-Proto IX signals also activate antioxidant enzymes and increase non-enzymatic antioxidants [glutathione but not ascorbic acid (AsA)] to maintain redox equilibrium during the cold stress.
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- Zhong-Wei Zhang
- College of Resources, Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChengdu, China
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- Key Lab of Aromatic Plant Resources Exploitation and Utilization in Sichuan Higher Education, College of Life Science and Food Engineering, Yibin UniversityYibin, China
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- College of Resources, Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChengdu, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan Agricultural UniversityYa’an, China
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- College of Resources, Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChengdu, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan Agricultural UniversityYa’an, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan Agricultural UniversityYa’an, China
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- College of Resources, Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChengdu, China
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- College of Resources, Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChengdu, China
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- College of Resources, Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChengdu, China
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Jia Y, Ding Y, Shi Y, Zhang X, Gong Z, Yang S. The cbfs triple mutants reveal the essential functions of CBFs in cold acclimation and allow the definition of CBF regulons in Arabidopsis. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2016; 212:345-53. [PMID: 27353960 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 261] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2016] [Accepted: 06/06/2016] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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In Arabidopsis, the C-repeat binding factors (CBFs) have been extensively studied as key transcription factors in the cold stress response. However, their exact functions in the cold response remains unclear due to the lack of a null cbf triple mutant. In this study, we used CRISPR/Cas9 technology to mutate CBF1 or CBF1/CBF2 in a cbf3 T-DNA insertion mutant to generate cbf1,3 double and cbf1 cbf2 cbf3 (cbfs) triple mutants. The response of the cbfs triple mutants to chilling stress is impaired. Furthermore, no significant difference in freezing tolerance was observed between the wild-type and the cbf1,3 and cbfs mutants without cold acclimation. However, the cbfs mutants were extremely sensitive to freezing stress after cold acclimation, and freezing sensitivity ranking was cbfs > cbf1,3 > cbf3. RNA-Seq analysis showed that 134 genes were CBF regulated, of which 112 were regulated positively and 22 negatively by CBFs. Our study reveals the essential functions of CBFs in chilling stress response and cold acclimation, as well as defines a set of genes as CBF regulon. It also provides materials for the genetic dissection of components in CBF-dependent cold signaling.
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- Yuxin Jia
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China.
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Lee SY, Boon NJ, Webb AAR, Tanaka RJ. Synergistic Activation of RD29A Via Integration of Salinity Stress and Abscisic Acid in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 57:2147-2160. [PMID: 27497445 PMCID: PMC5434669 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcw132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2016] [Accepted: 07/19/2016] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Plants perceive information from the surroundings and elicit appropriate molecular responses. How plants dynamically respond to combinations of external inputs is yet to be revealed, despite the detailed current knowledge of intracellular signaling pathways. We measured dynamics of Response-to-Dehydration 29A (RD29A) expression induced by single or combined NaCl and ABA treatments in Arabidopsis thaliana. RD29A expression in response to a combination of NaCl and ABA leads to unique dynamic behavior that cannot be explained by the sum of responses to individual NaCl and ABA. To explore the potential mechanisms responsible for the observed synergistic response, we developed a mathematical model of the DREB2 and AREB pathways based on existing knowledge, where NaCl and ABA act as the cognate inputs, respectively, and examined various system structures with cross-input modulation, where non-cognate input affects expression of the genes involved in adjacent signaling pathways. The results from the analysis of system structures, combined with the insights from microarray expression profiles and model-guided experiments, predicted that synergistic activation of RD29A originates from enhancement of DREB2 activity by ABA. Our analysis of RD29A expression profiles demonstrates that a simple mathematical model can be used to extract information from temporal dynamics induced by combinatorial stimuli and produce experimentally testable hypotheses.
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- Sang Y Lee
- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
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- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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Brassinosteroids participate in the control of basal and acquired freezing tolerance of plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:E5982-E5991. [PMID: 27655893 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1611477113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Brassinosteroids (BRs) are growth-promoting plant hormones that play a role in abiotic stress responses, but molecular modes that enable this activity remain largely unknown. Here we show that BRs participate in the regulation of freezing tolerance. BR signaling-defective mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana were hypersensitive to freezing before and after cold acclimation. The constitutive activation of BR signaling, in contrast, enhanced freezing resistance. Evidence is provided that the BR-controlled basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor CESTA (CES) can contribute to the constitutive expression of the C-REPEAT/DEHYDRATION-RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING FACTOR (CBF) transcriptional regulators that control cold responsive (COR) gene expression. In addition, CBF-independent classes of BR-regulated COR genes are identified that are regulated in a BR- and CES-dependent manner during cold acclimation. A model is presented in which BRs govern different cold-responsive transcriptional cascades through the posttranslational modification of CES and redundantly acting factors. This contributes to the basal resistance against freezing stress, but also to the further improvement of this resistance through cold acclimation.
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Ebrahimi M, Abdullah SNA, Abdul Aziz M, Namasivayam P. Oil palm EgCBF3 conferred stress tolerance in transgenic tomato plants through modulation of the ethylene signaling pathway. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 202:107-20. [PMID: 27513726 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2016.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2016] [Revised: 06/28/2016] [Accepted: 07/02/2016] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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CBF/DREB1 is a group of transcription factors that are mainly involved in abiotic stress tolerance in plants. They belong to the AP2/ERF superfamily of plant-specific transcription factors. A gene encoding a new member of this group was isolated from ripening oil palm fruit and designated as EgCBF3. The oil palm fruit demonstrates the characteristics of a climacteric fruit like tomato, in which ethylene has a major impact on the ripening process. A transgenic approach was used for functional characterization of the EgCBF3, using tomato as the model plant. The effects of ectopic expression of EgCBF3 were analyzed based on expression profiling of the ethylene biosynthesis-related genes, anti-freeze proteins (AFPs), abiotic stress tolerance and plant growth and development. The EgCBF3 tomatoes demonstrated altered phenotypes compared to the wild type tomatoes. Delayed leaf senescence and flowering, increased chlorophyll content and abnormal flowering were the consequences of overexpression of EgCBF3 in the transgenic tomatoes. The EgCBF3 tomatoes demonstrated enhanced abiotic stress tolerance under in vitro conditions. Further, transcript levels of ethylene biosynthesis-related genes, including three SlACSs and two SlACOs, were altered in the transgenic plants' leaves and roots compared to that in the wild type tomato plant. Among the eight AFPs studied in the wounded leaves of the EgCBF3 tomato plants, transcript levels of SlOSM-L, SlNP24, SlPR5L and SlTSRF1 decreased, while expression of the other four, SlCHI3, SlPR1, SlPR-P2 and SlLAP2, were up-regulated. These findings indicate the possible functions of EgCBF3 in plant growth and development as a regulator of ethylene biosynthesis-related and AFP genes, and as a stimulator of abiotic stress tolerance.
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- Mortaza Ebrahimi
- Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; Dept. of Tissue Culture & Gene Transformation, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran-Central Branch (ABRII-CB), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Iran
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Wang X, Shan X, Xue C, Wu Y, Su S, Li S, Liu H, Jiang Y, Zhang Y, Yuan Y. Isolation and functional characterization of a cold responsive phosphatidylinositol transfer-associated protein, ZmSEC14p, from maize (Zea may L.). PLANT CELL REPORTS 2016; 35:1671-86. [PMID: 27061906 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-016-1980-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2016] [Accepted: 03/31/2016] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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A Sec14-like protein, ZmSEC14p , from maize was structurally analyzed and functionally tested. Overexpression of ZmSEC14p in transgenic Arabidopsis conferred tolerance to cold stress. Sec14-like proteins are involved in essential biological processes, such as phospholipid metabolism, signal transduction, membrane trafficking, and stress response. Here, we reported a phosphatidylinositol transfer-associated protein, ZmSEC14p (accession no. KT932998), isolated from a cold-tolerant maize inbred line using the cDNA-AFLP approach and RACE-PCR method. Full-length cDNA that consisted of a single open reading frame (ORF) encoded a putative polypeptide of 295 amino acids. The ZmSEC14p protein was mainly localized in the nucleus, and its transcript was induced by cold, salt stresses, and abscisic acid (ABA) treatment in maize leaves and roots. Overexpression of ZmSEC14p in transgenic Arabidopsis conferred tolerance to cold stress. This tolerance was primarily displayed by the increased germination rate, root length, plant survival rate, accumulation of proline, activities of antioxidant enzymes, and the reduction of oxidative damage by reactive oxygen species (ROS). ZmSEC14p overexpression regulated the expression of phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C, which cleaves phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) and generates second messengers (inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate and 1,2-diacylglycerol) in the phosphoinositide signal transduction pathways. Moreover, up-regulation of some stress-responsive genes such as CBF3, COR6.6, and RD29B in transgenic plants under cold stress could be a possible mechanism for enhancing cold tolerance. Taken together, this study strongly suggests that ZmSEC14p plays an important role in plant tolerance to cold stress.
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- Xiaoyu Wang
- College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130062, China
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- College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130062, China
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- College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130062, China
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- College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130062, China
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- College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130062, China
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- College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130062, China
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- College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130062, China
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- College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130062, China
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- College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130062, China
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- College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130062, China.
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van Buer J, Cvetkovic J, Baier M. Cold regulation of plastid ascorbate peroxidases serves as a priming hub controlling ROS signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 16:163. [PMID: 27439459 PMCID: PMC4955218 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-016-0856-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2016] [Accepted: 07/15/2016] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND Short cold periods comprise a challenge to plant growth and development. Series of cold stresses improve plant performance upon a future cold stress. This effect could be provoked by priming, training or acclimation dependent hardening. Here, we compared the effect of 24 h (short priming stimulus) and of 2 week long cold-pretreatment (long priming stimulus) on the response of Arabidopsis thaliana to a single 24 h cold stimulus (triggering) after a 5 day long lag-phase, to test Arabidopsis for cold primability. RESULTS Three types of pretreatment dependent responses were observed: (1) The CBF-regulon controlled gene COR15A was stronger activated only after long-term cold pretreatment. (2) The non-chloroplast specific stress markers PAL1 and CHS were more induced by cold after long-term and slightly stronger expressed after short-term cold priming. (3) The chloroplast ROS signaling marker genes ZAT10 and BAP1 were less activated by the triggering stimulus in primed plants. The effects on ZAT10 and BAP1 were more pronounced in 24 h cold-primed plants than in 14 day long cold-primed ones demonstrating independence of priming from induction and persistence of primary cold acclimation responses. Transcript and protein abundance analysis and studies in specific knock-out lines linked the priming-specific regulation of ZAT10 and BAP1 induction to the priming-induced long-term regulation of stromal and thylakoid-bound ascorbate peroxidase (sAPX and tAPX) expression. CONCLUSION The plastid antioxidant system, especially, plastid ascorbate peroxidase regulation, transmits information on a previous cold stress over time without the requirement of establishing cold-acclimation. We hypothesize that the plastid antioxidant system serves as a priming hub and that priming-dependent regulation of chloroplast-to-nucleus ROS signaling is a strategy to prepare plants under unstable environmental conditions against unpredictable stresses by supporting extra-plastidic stress protection.
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- Jörn van Buer
- Dahlem Center of Plant Sciences, Plant Physiology, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 12-16, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Dahlem Center of Plant Sciences, Plant Physiology, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 12-16, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Dahlem Center of Plant Sciences, Plant Physiology, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 12-16, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Expression and regulation of a cold-responsive gene,CsCBFinCitrus sinensis(L.) Osbeck under low temperature, high salinity and abscisic acid. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.2016.1135.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Wei T, Deng K, Gao Y, Liu Y, Yang M, Zhang L, Zheng X, Wang C, Song W, Chen C, Zhang Y. Arabidopsis DREB1B in transgenic Salvia miltiorrhiza increased tolerance to drought stress without stunting growth. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2016; 104:17-28. [PMID: 27002402 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2016.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2015] [Revised: 02/28/2016] [Accepted: 03/03/2016] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Multiple stress response genes are controlled by transcription factors in a coordinated manner; therefore, these factors can be used for molecular plant breeding. CBF1/DREB1B, a known stress-inducible gene, was isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana and introduced into Salvia miltiorrhiza under the control of the CaMV35S or RD29A promoter. Under drought stress, relative water content, chlorophyll content, and the net photosynthetic rate were observed to be higher in the transgenic lines than in the wild type (WT). Moreover, O2(-) and H2O2 accumulation was observed to be lower in the transgenic lines. Additional analyses revealed that the AtDREB1B transgenic plants generally displayed lesser malondialdehyde (MDA) but higher superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and peroxidase (POD) activities than the WT under drought stress. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction of a subset of genes involved in photosynthesis, stress response, carbohydrate metabolism, and cell protection further verified that AtDREB1B could enhance tolerance to drought by activating different downstream DREB/CBF genes in the transgenic plants. Furthermore, no growth inhibition was detected in transgenic S. miltiorrhiza plants that expressed AtDREB1B driven by either the constitutive CaMV35S promoter or the stress-inducible RD29A promoter. Together, these results suggest that AtDREB1B is a good candidate gene for increasing drought tolerance in transgenic S. miltiorrhiza.
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- Tao Wei
- College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, PR China; School of Life Sciences and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, PR China
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- School of Life Sciences and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, PR China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, PR China
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- School of Life Sciences and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, PR China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, PR China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, PR China
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- School of Life Sciences and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, PR China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, PR China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, PR China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, PR China.
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- School of Life Sciences and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, PR China.
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Firtzlaff V, Oberländer J, Geiselhardt S, Hilker M, Kunze R. Pre-exposure of Arabidopsis to the abiotic or biotic environmental stimuli "chilling" or "insect eggs" exhibits different transcriptomic responses to herbivory. Sci Rep 2016; 6:28544. [PMID: 27329974 PMCID: PMC4916510 DOI: 10.1038/srep28544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2016] [Accepted: 06/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Plants can retain information about environmental stress and thus, prepare themselves for impending stress. In nature, it happens that environmental stimuli like ‘cold’ and ‘insect egg deposition’ precede insect herbivory. Both these stimuli are known to elicit transcriptomic changes in Arabidposis thaliana. It is unknown, however, whether they affect the plant’s anti-herbivore defence and feeding-induced transcriptome when they end prior to herbivory. Here we investigated the transcriptomic response of Arabidopsis to feeding by Pieris brassicae larvae after prior exposure to cold or oviposition. The transcriptome of plants that experienced a five-day-chilling period (4 °C) was not fully reset to the pre-chilling state after deacclimation (20 °C) for one day and responded differently to herbivory than that of chilling-inexperienced plants. In contrast, when after a five-day-lasting oviposition period the eggs were removed, one day later the transcriptome and, consistently, also its response to herbivory resembled that of egg-free plants. Larval performance was unaffected by previous exposure of plants to cold and to eggs, thus indicating P. brassicae tolerance to cold-mediated plant transcriptomic changes. Our results show strong differences in the persistence of the plant’s transcriptomic state after removal of different environmental cues, and consequently differential effects on the transcriptomic response to later herbivory.
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- Vivien Firtzlaff
- Institute of Biology-Applied Zoology/Animal Ecology, Freie Universität Berlin, Haderslebener Str. 9, D-12163 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Biology-Applied Genetics/Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Albrecht-Thaer-Weg 6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Biology-Applied Zoology/Animal Ecology, Freie Universität Berlin, Haderslebener Str. 9, D-12163 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Biology-Applied Zoology/Animal Ecology, Freie Universität Berlin, Haderslebener Str. 9, D-12163 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Biology-Applied Genetics/Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Albrecht-Thaer-Weg 6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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Yamasaki Y, Randall SK. Functionality of soybean CBF/DREB1 transcription factors. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 246:80-90. [PMID: 26993238 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2016.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2015] [Revised: 02/02/2016] [Accepted: 02/06/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Soybean (Glycine max) is considered to be cold intolerant and is not able to significantly acclimate to cold/freezing stress. In most cold tolerant plants, the C-repeat/DRE Binding Factors (CBF/DREBs) are critical contributors to successful cold-responses; rapidly increasing following cold treatment and regulating the induction of many cold responsive genes. In soybean vegetative tissue, we found strong, transient accumulation of CBF transcripts in response to cold stress; however, the soybean transcripts of typical cold responsive genes (homologues to Arabidopsis genes such as dehydrins, ADH1, RAP2.1, and LEA14) were not significantly altered. Soybean CBFs were found to be functional, as when expressed constitutively in Arabidopsis they increased the levels of AtCOR47 and AtRD29a transcripts and increased freezing tolerance as measured by a decrease in leaf freezing damage and ion leakage. Furthermore the constitutive expression of GmDREB1A;2 and GmDREB1B;1 in Arabidopsis led to stronger up-regulation of downstream genes and more freezing tolerance than GmDREB1A;1, the gene whose transcript is the major contributor to total CBF/DREB1 transcripts in soybean. The inability for the soybean CBFs to significantly up regulate the soybean genes that contribute to cold tolerance is consistent with poor acclimation capability and the cold intolerance of soybean.
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- Yuji Yamasaki
- Biology Department, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 723 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, United States.
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- Biology Department, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 723 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, United States.
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Trachsel S, Sun D, SanVicente FM, Zheng H, Atlin GN, Suarez EA, Babu R, Zhang X. Identification of QTL for Early Vigor and Stay-Green Conferring Tolerance to Drought in Two Connected Advanced Backcross Populations in Tropical Maize (Zea mays L.). PLoS One 2016; 11:e0149636. [PMID: 26999525 PMCID: PMC4801329 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2015] [Accepted: 02/03/2016] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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We aimed to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) for secondary traits related to grain yield (GY) in two BC1F2:3 backcross populations (LPSpop and DTPpop) under well-watered (4 environments; WW) and drought stressed (6; DS) conditions to facilitate breeding efforts towards drought tolerant maize. GY reached 5.6 and 5.8 t/ha under WW in the LPSpop and the DTPpop, respectively. Under DS, grain yield was reduced by 65% (LPSpop) to 59% (DTPpop) relative to WW. GY was strongly associated with the normalized vegetative index (NDVI; r ranging from 0.61 to 0.96) across environmental conditions and with an early flowering under drought stressed conditions (r ranging from -0.18 to -0.25) indicative of the importance of early vigor and drought escape for GY. Out of the 105 detected QTL, 53 were overdominant indicative of strong heterosis. For 14 out of 18 detected vigor QTL, as well as for eight flowering time QTL the trait increasing allele was derived from CML491. Collocations of early vigor QTL with QTL for stay green (bin 2.02, WW, LPSpop; 2.07, DS, DTPpop), the number of ears per plant (bins 2.02, 2.05, WW, LPSpop; 5.02, DS, LPSpop) and GY (bin 2.07, WW, DTPpop; 5.04, WW, LPSpop), reinforce the importance of the observed correlations. LOD scores for early vigor QTL in these bins ranged from 2.2 to 11.25 explaining 4.6 (additivity: +0.28) to 19.9% (additivity: +0.49) of the observed phenotypic variance. A strong flowering QTL was detected in bin 2.06 across populations and environmental conditions explaining 26–31.3% of the observed phenotypic variation (LOD: 13–17; additivity: 0.1–0.6d). Improving drought tolerance while at the same time maintaining yield potential could be achieved by combining alleles conferring early vigor from the recurrent parent with alleles advancing flowering from the donor. Additionally bin 8.06 (DTPpop) harbored a QTL for GY under WW (additivity: 0.27 t/ha) and DS (additivity: 0.58 t/ha). R2 ranged from 0 (DTPpop, WW) to 26.54% (LPSpop, DS) for NDVI, 18.6 (LPSpop, WW) to 42.45% (LPSpop, DS) for anthesis and from 0 (DTPpop, DS) to 24.83% (LPSpop, WW) for GY. Lines out-yielding the best check by 32.5% (DTPpop, WW) to 60% (DTPpop, DS) for all population-by-irrigation treatment combination (except LPSpop, WW) identified are immediately available for the use by breeders.
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- Samuel Trachsel
- The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), International Apdo. Postal 6–641, 06600 Mexico, D.F. Mexico
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- Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences (SAAS), Postal 201106, Shanghai, China
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- The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), International Apdo. Postal 6–641, 06600 Mexico, D.F. Mexico
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- Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences (SAAS), Postal 201106, Shanghai, China
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- The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), International Apdo. Postal 6–641, 06600 Mexico, D.F. Mexico
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- The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), International Apdo. Postal 6–641, 06600 Mexico, D.F. Mexico
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- CIMMYT, ICRISAT Campus, Patancheru, Hyderabad, 502 324, India
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- The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), International Apdo. Postal 6–641, 06600 Mexico, D.F. Mexico
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Artlip TS, Wisniewski ME, Arora R, Norelli JL. An apple rootstock overexpressing a peach CBF gene alters growth and flowering in the scion but does not impact cold hardiness or dormancy. HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2016; 3:16006. [PMID: 26981253 PMCID: PMC4783695 DOI: 10.1038/hortres.2016.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2015] [Revised: 01/29/2016] [Accepted: 01/30/2016] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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The C-repeat binding factor (CBF) transcription factor is involved in responses to low temperature and water deficit in many plant species. Overexpression of CBF genes leads to enhanced freezing tolerance and growth inhibition in many species. The overexpression of a peach CBF (PpCBF1) gene in a transgenic line of own-rooted apple (Malus×domestica) M.26 rootstock (T166) trees was previously reported to have additional effects on the onset of dormancy and time of spring budbreak. In the current study, the commercial apple cultivar 'Royal Gala' (RG) was grafted onto either non-transgenic M.26 rootstocks (RG/M.26) or transgenic M.26 (T166) rootstocks (RG/T166) and field grown for 3 years. No PpCBF1 transcript was detected in the phloem or cambium of RG scions grafted on T166 rootstocks indicating that no graft transmission of transgene mRNA had occurred. In contrast to own-rooted T166 trees, no impact of PpCBF1 overexpression in T166 rootstocks was observed on the onset of dormancy, budbreak or non-acclimated leaf-cold hardiness in RG/T166 trees. Growth, however, as measured by stem caliper, current-year shoot extension and overall height, was reduced in RG/T166 trees compared with RG/M.26 trees. Although flowering was evident in both RG/T166 and RG/M.26 trees in the second season, the number of trees in flower, the number of shoots bearing flowers, and the number of flower clusters per shoot was significantly higher in RG/M.26 trees than RG/T166 trees in both the second and third year after planting. Elevated levels of RGL (DELLA) gene expression were observed in RG/T166 trees and T166 trees, which may play a role in the reduced growth observed in these tree types. A model is presented indicating how CBF overexpression in a rootstock might influence juvenility and flower abundance in a grafted scion.
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- Timothy S Artlip
- USDA-ARS, Appalachian Fruit Research Station, Kearneysville, WV, USA
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- Department of Horticulture, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- USDA-ARS, Appalachian Fruit Research Station, Kearneysville, WV, USA
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Chan Z, Wang Y, Cao M, Gong Y, Mu Z, Wang H, Hu Y, Deng X, He XJ, Zhu JK. RDM4 modulates cold stress resistance in Arabidopsis partially through the CBF-mediated pathway. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2016; 209:1527-39. [PMID: 26522658 PMCID: PMC5515388 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2015] [Accepted: 09/25/2015] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The C-REPEAT-BINDING FACTOR (CBF) pathway has important roles in plant responses to cold stress. How the CBF genes themselves are activated after cold acclimation remains poorly understood. In this study, we characterized cold tolerance of null mutant of RNA-DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION 4 (RDM4), which encodes a protein that associates with RNA polymerases Pol V and Pol II, and is required for RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) in Arabidopsis. The results showed that dysfunction of RDM4 reduced cold tolerance, as evidenced by decreased survival and increased electrolyte leakage. Mutation of RDM4 resulted in extensive transcriptomic reprogramming. CBFs and CBF regulon genes were down-regulated in rdm4 but not nrpe1 (the largest subunit of PolV) mutants, suggesting that the role of RDM4 in cold stress responses is independent of the RdDM pathway. Overexpression of RDM4 constitutively increased the expression of CBFs and regulon genes and decreased cold-induced membrane injury. A great proportion of genes affected by rdm4 overlapped with those affected by CBFs. Chromatin immunoprecipitation results suggested that RDM4 is important for Pol II occupancy at the promoters of CBF2 and CBF3. We present evidence of a considerable role for RDM4 in regulating gene expression at low temperature, including the CBF pathway in Arabidopsis.
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- Zhulong Chan
- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province 430074, China
- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province 430074, China
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- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
- College of Life Science and Food Engineering, Yibin University, Yibin, Sichuan 644000, China
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
- College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaan’xi 712100, China
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai 810001, China
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
- College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100093, China
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- National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing 102206, China
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- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
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Zwack PJ, Compton MA, Adams CI, Rashotte AM. Cytokinin response factor 4 (CRF4) is induced by cold and involved in freezing tolerance. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2016; 35:573-84. [PMID: 26650835 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-015-1904-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2015] [Revised: 11/11/2015] [Accepted: 11/17/2015] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Cytokinin response factor 4 (CRF4) shows a short-term induction by cold (4 °C) that appears to play a role in non-acclimated freezing tolerance as seen in mutant and overexpression lines. Responses to abiotic stresses, such as cold stress, are critical to plant growth and optimal production. Examination of Arabidopsis cytokinin response factors (CRFs) showed transcriptional induction after exposure to cold (4 °C). In particular, CRF4 was strongly induced in both root and shoot tissues. As CRF4 is one of several CRFs not transcriptionally regulated by cytokinin, we further investigated its response to cold. Peak CRF4 induction occurred 6 h post cold exposure, after which expression was maintained at moderately elevated levels during extended cold and subsequent treatment recovery. Examination of CRF4 mutant and overexpression lines under standard (non-cold) conditions revealed little difference from WT. One exception was a small, but significant increase in primary root growth of overexpression plants (CRF4OX). Under cold conditions, the only phenotype observed was a reduction in the rate of germination of CRF4OX seeds. The pattern of CRF4 expression along with the lack of strong phenotype at 4 °C led us to hypothesize that cold induction of CRF4 could play a role in short-term cold acclimation leading to increased freeze tolerance. Examination of CRF4OX and crf4 plants exposed to freezing temperatures revealed mutants lacking expression of CRF4 were more sensitive to freezing, while CRF4OXs with increased levels CRF4 levels were more tolerant. Altered transcript expression of CBF and COR15a cold signaling pathway genes in crf4 mutant and overexpression lines suggest that CRF4 may be potentially connected to this pathway. Overall this indicates that CRF4 plays an important role in both cold response and freezing stress.
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- Paul J Zwack
- Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, 101 Rouse Life Sciences Building, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, 101 Rouse Life Sciences Building, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, 101 Rouse Life Sciences Building, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, 101 Rouse Life Sciences Building, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA.
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Novák A, Boldizsár Á, Ádám É, Kozma-Bognár L, Majláth I, Båga M, Tóth B, Chibbar R, Galiba G. Light-quality and temperature-dependent CBF14 gene expression modulates freezing tolerance in cereals. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2016; 67:1285-95. [PMID: 26712822 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erv526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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UNLABELLED C-repeat binding factor 14 (CBF14) is a plant transcription factor that regulates a set of cold-induced genes, contributing to enhanced frost tolerance during cold acclimation. Many CBF genes are induced by cool temperatures and regulated by day length and light quality, which affect the amount of accumulated freezing tolerance. Here we show that a low red to far-red ratio in white light enhances CBF14 expression and increases frost tolerance at 15°C in winter Triticum aesitivum and Hordeum vulgare genotypes, but not in T. monococcum (einkorn), which has a relatively low freezing tolerance. Low red to far-red ratio enhances the expression of PHYA in all three species, but induces PHYB expression only in einkorn. Based on our results, a model is proposed to illustrate the supposed positive effect of phytochrome A and the negative influence of phytochrome B on the enhancement of freezing tolerance in cereals in response to spectral changes of incident light. KEY WORDS CBF-regulon, barley, cereals, cold acclimation, freezing tolerance, light regulation, low red/far-red ratio, phytochrome, wheat.
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- Aliz Novák
- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2462 Martonvásár, Hungary Doctoral School of Molecular- and Nanotechnologies, Research Institute of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Pannonia, 8200 Veszprém, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2462 Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 6726 Szeged, Hungary
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- Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 6726 Szeged, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2462 Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, S7N 5A8 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2462 Martonvásár, Hungary Doctoral School of Molecular- and Nanotechnologies, Research Institute of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Pannonia, 8200 Veszprém, Hungary
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, S7N 5A8 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2462 Martonvásár, Hungary Festetics Doctoral School, Department of Meteorology and Water Management, Georgikon Faculty, University of Pannonia, 8360 Keszthely, Hungary
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Cheng F, Lu J, Gao M, Shi K, Kong Q, Huang Y, Bie Z. Redox Signaling and CBF-Responsive Pathway Are Involved in Salicylic Acid-Improved Photosynthesis and Growth under Chilling Stress in Watermelon. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1519. [PMID: 27777580 PMCID: PMC5056192 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2016] [Accepted: 09/26/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Salicylic acid (SA) plays an important role in plant response to abiotic stresses. This study investigated the potential role of SA in alleviating the adverse effects of chilling stress on photosynthesis and growth in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus). Chilling stress induced the simultaneous accumulation of free and conjugated SA in watermelon plants, and the chilling-induced SA production was attributed to the phenylalanine ammonia-lyase pathway. Applying SA at moderate concentrations induced chilling tolerance, whereas inhibition of SA biosynthesis by L-α-aminooxy-β-phenylpropionic acid (AOPP) increased the photooxidation of PS II under chilling stress in watermelon, resulting in reduced photosynthesis and growth. Chilling induced a transient increase in the ratios of reduced to oxidized glutathione and reduced ascorbate to dehydroascorbate. Then, the expression of antioxidant genes was upregulated, and the activities of antioxidant enzymes were enhanced. Furthermore, SA-induced chilling tolerance was associated with cellular glutathione and ascorbate homeostasis, which served as redox signals to regulate antioxidant metabolism under chilling stress. AOPP treatment stimulated the chilling-induced expression of cold-responsive genes, particularly via C-repeat binding factors CBF3 and CBF4. These results confirm the synergistic role of SA signaling and the CBF-dependent responsive pathway during chilling stress in watermelon.
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- Fei Cheng
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- Department of Horticulture, Zhejiang UniversityHangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
- *Correspondence: Zhilong Bie,
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An D, Ma Q, Yan W, Zhou W, Liu G, Zhang P. Divergent Regulation of CBF Regulon on Cold Tolerance and Plant Phenotype in Cassava Overexpressing Arabidopsis CBF3 Gene. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1866. [PMID: 27999588 PMCID: PMC5138201 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2016] [Accepted: 11/25/2016] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Cassava is a tropical origin plant that is sensitive to chilling stress. In order to understand the CBF cold response pathway, a well-recognized regulatory mechanism in temperate plants, in cassava, overexpression of an Arabidopsis CBF3 gene is studied. This gene renders cassava increasingly tolerant to cold and drought stresses but is associated with retarded plant growth, leaf curling, reduced storage root yield, and reduced anthocyanin accumulation in a transcript abundance-dependent manner. Physiological analysis revealed that the transgenic cassava increased proline accumulation, reduced malondialdehyde production, and electrolyte leakage under cold stress. These transgenic lines also showed high relative water content when faced with drought. The expression of partial CBF-targeted genes in response to cold displayed temporal and spatial variations in the wild-type and transgenic plants: highly inducible in leaves and less altered in apical buds. In addition, anthocyanin accumulation was inhibited by downregulating the expression of genes involved in its biosynthesis and by interplaying between the CBF3 and the endogenous transcription factors. Thus, the heterologous CBF3 modulates the expression of stress-related genes and carries out a series of physiological adjustments under stressful conditions, showing a varied regulation pattern of CBF regulon from that of cassava CBFs.
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- Dong An
- 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 ScienceShanghai, 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 ScienceShanghai, 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 ScienceShanghai, China
- Institute of Tropical and Sub-tropical Cash Crops, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural SciencesBaoshan, 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 ScienceShanghai, China
- Institute of Tropical and Sub-tropical Cash Crops, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural SciencesBaoshan, China
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- Institute of Tropical and Sub-tropical Cash Crops, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural SciencesBaoshan, 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 ScienceShanghai, China
- *Correspondence: Peng Zhang,
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He Y, Li Y, Cui L, Xie L, Zheng C, Zhou G, Zhou J, Xie X. Phytochrome B Negatively Affects Cold Tolerance by Regulating OsDREB1 Gene Expression through Phytochrome Interacting Factor-Like Protein OsPIL16 in Rice. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1963. [PMID: 28083003 PMCID: PMC5183628 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2016] [Accepted: 12/12/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Cross talk between light signaling and cold signaling has been elucidated in the model plant Arabidopsis and tomato, but little is known about their relationship in rice. Here, we report that phytochrome B (phyB) mutants exhibit improved cold tolerance compared with wild type (WT) rice (Oryza sativa L. cv. Nipponbare). The phyB mutants had a lower electrolyte leakage index and malondialdehyde concentration than the WT, suggesting that they had greater cell membrane integrity and less lipid peroxidation. Real-time PCR analysis revealed that the expression levels of dehydration-responsive element binding protein 1 (OsDREB1) family genes, which functions in the cold stress response in rice, were increased in the phyB mutant under normal and cold stress conditions. PIFs are central players in phytochrome-mediated light signaling networks. To explore the relationship between rice PIFs and OsDREB1 gene expression, we produced overexpression lines of rice PIF genes. OsDREB1 family genes were up-regulated in OsPIL16-overexpression lines, which had improved cold tolerance relative to the WT. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-qPCR assay revealed that OsPIL16 can bind to the N-box region of OsDREB1B promoter. Expression pattern analyses revealed that OsPIL16 transcripts were induced by cold stress and was significantly higher in the phyB mutant than in the WT. Moreover, yeast two-hybrid assay showed that OsPIL16 can bind to rice PHYB. Based on these results, we propose that phyB deficiency positively regulates OsDREB1 expression through OsPIL16 to enhance cell membrane integrity and to reduce the malondialdehyde concentration, resulting in the improved cold tolerance of the phyB mutants.
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- Yanan He
- Shandong Rice Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural SciencesJinan, China
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- Shandong Rice Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural SciencesJinan, China
- College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal UniversityJinan, China
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- Shandong Rice Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural SciencesJinan, China
- College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal UniversityJinan, China
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- Shandong Rice Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural SciencesJinan, China
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- Shandong Rice Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural SciencesJinan, China
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- Shandong Rice Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural SciencesJinan, China
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- Shandong Rice Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural SciencesJinan, China
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- Shandong Rice Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural SciencesJinan, China
- *Correspondence: Xianzhi Xie,
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Wang CL, Zhang SC, Qi SD, Zheng CC, Wu CA. Delayed germination of Arabidopsis seeds under chilling stress by overexpressing an abiotic stress inducible GhTPS11. Gene 2016; 575:206-12. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.08.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2015] [Revised: 08/27/2015] [Accepted: 08/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Cheng F, Lu J, Gao M, Shi K, Kong Q, Huang Y, Bie Z. Redox Signaling and CBF-Responsive Pathway Are Involved in Salicylic Acid-Improved Photosynthesis and Growth under Chilling Stress in Watermelon. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016. [PMID: 27777580 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.0151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Salicylic acid (SA) plays an important role in plant response to abiotic stresses. This study investigated the potential role of SA in alleviating the adverse effects of chilling stress on photosynthesis and growth in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus). Chilling stress induced the simultaneous accumulation of free and conjugated SA in watermelon plants, and the chilling-induced SA production was attributed to the phenylalanine ammonia-lyase pathway. Applying SA at moderate concentrations induced chilling tolerance, whereas inhibition of SA biosynthesis by L-α-aminooxy-β-phenylpropionic acid (AOPP) increased the photooxidation of PS II under chilling stress in watermelon, resulting in reduced photosynthesis and growth. Chilling induced a transient increase in the ratios of reduced to oxidized glutathione and reduced ascorbate to dehydroascorbate. Then, the expression of antioxidant genes was upregulated, and the activities of antioxidant enzymes were enhanced. Furthermore, SA-induced chilling tolerance was associated with cellular glutathione and ascorbate homeostasis, which served as redox signals to regulate antioxidant metabolism under chilling stress. AOPP treatment stimulated the chilling-induced expression of cold-responsive genes, particularly via C-repeat binding factors CBF3 and CBF4. These results confirm the synergistic role of SA signaling and the CBF-dependent responsive pathway during chilling stress in watermelon.
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- Fei Cheng
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan, China
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- Department of Horticulture, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan, China
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Shah SH, Ali S, Qureshi AA, Zia MA, Jalal-Ud-Din, Ali GM. WITHDRAWN: Physiological and biochemical characterization of tomato transgenic lines overexpressing Arabidopsis thaliana cold responsive-element binding factor 3 (AtCBF3) gene under chilling stress. J Biotechnol 2015:S0168-1656(15)30235-2. [PMID: 26732415 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2015.12.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2015] [Revised: 12/19/2015] [Accepted: 12/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Sabir Hussain Shah
- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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- National Institute for Genomics & Advanced Biotechnology (NIGAB), National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Horticulture, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- National Institute for Genomics & Advanced Biotechnology (NIGAB), National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Plant Physiology Program, National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- National Institute for Genomics & Advanced Biotechnology (NIGAB), National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad, Pakistan
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Hsiao YC, Liu LYD. A Stepwise Approach of Finding Dependent Variables via Coefficient of Intrinsic Dependence. J Comput Biol 2015; 23:42-55. [PMID: 26645623 DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2015.0150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The coefficient of intrinsic dependence (CID) is capable of determining associations among variables without making distributional or functional assumptions regarding random variables. In this study, we developed the partial coefficient of intrinsic dependence (pCID) to facilitate the step-by-step selection of variables that are relevant to a target variable. The strategy of selecting relevant variables using the CID along with the pCID can eliminate interference from other relevant variables. From simulation results, we observed that the proposed method is more sensitive to curvilinearity and more specific to linearity than the combination of Pearsons correlation coefficient and the partial correlation coefficient (PCC/pPCC). This property may provide the opportunity to index different levels of curvilinearity according to CID/pCID outcomes. In practice trials conducted using publicly available microarray data, the CID/pCID procedure successfully identified cold-responsive genes related to three C-repeat binding factors, and was especially effective at identifying some sample-specific gene-gene interactions. Therefore, the proposed strategy may be beneficial in meta-analysis to distinguish general forms of relationships from the noise.
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- Ya-Chun Hsiao
- Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University , Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University , Taipei, Taiwan
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Nagler M, Nukarinen E, Weckwerth W, Nägele T. Integrative molecular profiling indicates a central role of transitory starch breakdown in establishing a stable C/N homeostasis during cold acclimation in two natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 15:284. [PMID: 26628055 PMCID: PMC4667452 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-015-0668-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2015] [Accepted: 11/23/2015] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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BACKGROUND The variation of growth and cold tolerance of two natural Arabidopsis accessions, Cvi (cold sensitive) and Rschew (cold tolerant), was analysed on a proteomic, phosphoproteomic and metabolomic level to derive characteristic information about genotypically distinct strategies of metabolic reprogramming and growth maintenance during cold acclimation. RESULTS Growth regulation before and after a cold acclimation period was monitored by recording fresh weight of leaf rosettes. Significant differences in the shoot fresh weight of Cvi and Rschew were detected both before and after acclimation to low temperature. During cold acclimation, starch levels were found to accumulate to a significantly higher level in Cvi compared to Rschew. Concomitantly, statistical analysis revealed a cold-induced decrease of beta-amylase 3 (BAM3; AT4G17090) in Cvi but not in Rschew. Further, only in Rschew we observed an increase of the protein level of the debranching enzyme isoamylase 3 (ISA3; AT4G09020). Additionally, the cold response of both accessions was observed to severely affect ribosomal complexes, but only Rschew showed a pronounced accumulation of carbon and nitrogen compounds. The abundance of the Cold Regulated (COR) protein COR78 (AT5G52310) as well as its phosphorylation was observed to be positively correlated with the acclimation state of both accessions. In addition, transcription factors being involved in growth and developmental regulation were found to characteristically separate the cold sensitive from the cold tolerant accession. Predicted protein-protein interaction networks (PPIN) of significantly changed proteins during cold acclimation allowed for a differentiation between both accessions. The PPIN revealed the central role of carbon/nitrogen allocation and ribosomal complex formation to establish a new cold-induced metabolic homeostasis as also observed on the level of the metabolome and proteome. CONCLUSION Our results provide evidence for a comprehensive multi-functional molecular interaction network orchestrating growth regulation and cold acclimation in two natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana. The differential abundance of beta-amylase 3 and isoamylase 3 indicates a central role of transitory starch degradation in the coordination of growth regulation and the development of stress tolerance. Finally, our study indicates naturally occurring differential patterns of C/N balance and protein synthesis during cold acclimation.
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- Matthias Nagler
- Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstr. 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
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- Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstr. 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
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- Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstr. 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
- Vienna Metabolomics Center (VIME), University of Vienna, Althanstr. 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
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- Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstr. 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
- Vienna Metabolomics Center (VIME), University of Vienna, Althanstr. 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
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Li J, Qin RY, Li H, Xu RF, Yang YC, Ni DH, Ma H, Li L, Wei PC, Yang JB. Low-Temperature-Induced Expression of Rice Ureidoglycolate Amidohydrolase is Mediated by a C-Repeat/Dehydration-Responsive Element that Specifically Interacts with Rice C-Repeat-Binding Factor 3. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:1011. [PMID: 26617632 PMCID: PMC4643140 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.01011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2015] [Accepted: 11/02/2015] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Nitrogen recycling and redistribution are important for the environmental stress response of plants. In non-nitrogen-fixing plants, ureide metabolism is crucial to nitrogen recycling from organic sources. Various studies have suggested that the rate-limiting components of ureide metabolism respond to environmental stresses. However, the underlying regulation mechanism is not well understood. In this report, rice ureidoglycolate amidohydrolase (OsUAH), which is a recently identified enzyme catalyzing the final step of ureide degradation, was identified as low-temperature- (LT) but not abscisic acid- (ABA) regulated. To elucidate the LT regulatory mechanism at the transcriptional level, we isolated and characterized the promoter region of OsUAH (P OsUAH ). Series deletions revealed that a minimal region between -522 and -420 relative to the transcriptional start site was sufficient for the cold induction of P OsUAH . Detailed analyses of this 103-bp fragment indicated that a C-repeat/dehydration-responsive (CRT/DRE) element localized at position -434 was essential for LT-responsive expression. A rice C-repeat-binding factors/DRE-binding proteins 1 (CBFs/DREB1s) subfamily member, OsCBF3, was screened to specifically bind to the CRT/DRE element in the minimal region both in yeast one-hybrid assays and in in vitro gel-shift analysis. Moreover, the promoter could be exclusively trans-activated by the interaction between the CRT/DRE element and OsCBF3 in vivo. These findings may help to elucidate the regulation mechanism of stress-responsive ureide metabolism genes and provide an example of the member-specific manipulation of the CBF/DREB1 subfamily.
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- *Correspondence: Peng-Cheng Wei, ; jian-Bo Yang,
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Gehan MA, Park S, Gilmour SJ, An C, Lee CM, Thomashow MF. Natural variation in the C-repeat binding factor cold response pathway correlates with local adaptation of Arabidopsis ecotypes. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2015; 84:682-93. [PMID: 26369909 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2015] [Revised: 08/19/2015] [Accepted: 09/03/2015] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The natural range of Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) encompasses geographical regions that have greatly differing local climates, including harshness of winter temperatures. A question thus raised is whether differences in freezing tolerance might contribute to local adaptation in Arabidopsis. Consistent with this possibility is that Arabidopsis accessions differ in freezing tolerance and that those collected from colder northern latitudes are generally more tolerant to freezing than those collected from warmer southern latitudes. Moreover, recent studies with Arabidopsis genotypes collected from sites in Sweden (SW) and Italy (IT) have established that the two accessions are locally adapted, that the SW ecotype is more tolerant of freezing than the IT ecotype, and that genetic differences between the two ecotypes that condition local adaptation and freezing tolerance map to a region that includes the C-repeat binding factor (CBF) locus. The CBF locus includes three genes - CBF1, CBF2 and CBF3 - that are induced by low temperature and encode transcription factors that regulate a group of more than 100 genes, the CBF regulon, which impart freezing tolerance. Here we show that cold induction of most CBF regulon genes is lower in IT plants compared with SW plants, and that this is due to the IT CBF2 gene encoding a non-functional CBF2 protein. The non-functional IT CBF2 protein also contributes to the lower freezing tolerance of the IT plants compared with the SW plants. Taken together, studies on the SW and IT ecotypes provide evidence that natural variation in the CBF pathway has contributed to adaptive evolution in these Arabidopsis populations.
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- Malia A Gehan
- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
- Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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Shi H, Qian Y, Tan DX, Reiter RJ, He C. Melatonin induces the transcripts of CBF/DREB1s and their involvement in both abiotic and biotic stresses in Arabidopsis. J Pineal Res 2015; 59:334-42. [PMID: 26182834 DOI: 10.1111/jpi.12262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2015] [Accepted: 07/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) is a naturally occurring small molecule that acts as an important secondary messenger in plant stress responses. However, the mechanism underlying the melatonin-mediated signaling pathway in plant stress responses has not been established. C-repeat-binding factors (CBFs)/Drought response element Binding 1 factors (DREB1s) encode transcription factors that play important roles in plant stress responses. This study has determined that endogenous melatonin and transcripts level of CBFs (AtCBF1, AtCBF2, and AtCBF3) in Arabidopsis leaves were significantly induced by salt, drought, and cold stresses and by pathogen Pseudomonas syringe pv. tomato (Pst) DC3000 infection. Moreover, both exogenous melatonin treatment and overexpression of CBFs conferred enhanced resistance to both abiotic and biotic stresses in Arabidopsis. Notably, AtCBFs and exogenous melatonin treatment positively regulated the mRNA expression of several stress-responsive genes (COR15A, RD22, and KIN1) and accumulation of soluble sugars content such as sucrose in Arabidopsis under control and stress conditions. Additionally, exogenous sucrose also conferred improved resistance to both abiotic and biotic stresses in Arabidopsis. Taken together, this study indicates that AtCBFs confer enhanced resistance to both abiotic and biotic stresses, and AtCBF-mediated signaling pathway and sugar accumulation may be involved in melatonin-mediated stress response in Arabidopsis, at least partially.
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- Haitao Shi
- Hainan Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Bioresources, College of Agriculture, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Hainan Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Bioresources, College of Agriculture, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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Meng LS, Wang ZB, Yao SQ, Liu A. The ARF2-ANT-COR15A gene cascade regulates ABA-signaling-mediated resistance of large seeds to drought in Arabidopsis. J Cell Sci 2015; 128:3922-32. [PMID: 26395398 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.171207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2015] [Accepted: 09/14/2015] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Seedlings of large-seeded plants are considered to be able to withstand abiotic stresses efficiently. The molecular mechanisms that underlie the involved signaling crosstalk between the large-seeded trait and abiotic tolerance are, however, largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate the molecular link that integrates plant abscisic acid (ABA) responses to drought stress into the regulation of seed mass. Both loss-of-function mutants of the Auxin Response Factor 2 (ARF2 encoding a transcription factor) and lines overexpressing AINTEGUMENTA (ANT; a transcription factor) under the 35S promoter exhibited large seed and drought-tolerant phenotypes as a result of abnormal ABA-auxin crosstalk signaling pathways in Arabidopsis. The target gene COLD-REGULATED15A (COR15a) was identified as participating in the regulation of seed development with ABA signaling through a negative regulation mechanism that is mediated by ANT. The molecular and genetic evidence presented indicate that ARF2, ANT and COR15A form an ABA-mediated signaling pathway to link modulation of seed mass with drought tolerance. These observations indicate that the ARF2 transcription factor serves as a molecular link that integrates plant ABA responses to drought stress into the regulation of seed mass.
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- Lai-Sheng Meng
- Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming 650201, People's Republic of China
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- School of Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Tianshui Normal University, TianShui City 741001, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming 650201, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming 650201, People's Republic of China
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Chen L, Fan J, Hu L, Hu Z, Xie Y, Zhang Y, Lou Y, Nevo E, Fu J. A transcriptomic analysis of bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) provides novel insights into the basis of low temperature tolerance. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 15:216. [PMID: 26362029 PMCID: PMC4566850 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-015-0598-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2015] [Accepted: 08/22/2015] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND Cold stress is regarded as a key factor limiting widespread use for bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon). Therefore, to improve cold tolerance for bermudagrass, it is urgent to understand molecular mechanisms of bermudagrass response to cold stress. However, our knowledge about the molecular responses of this species to cold stress is largely unknown. The objective of this study was to characterize the transcriptomic response to low temperature in bermudagrass by using RNA-Seq platform. RESULTS Ten cDNA libraries were generated from RNA samples of leaves from five different treatments in the cold-resistant (R) and the cold-sensitive (S) genotypes, including 4 °C cold acclimation (CA) for 24 h and 48 h, freezing (-5 °C) treatments for 4 h with or without prior CA, and controls. When subjected to cold acclimation, global gene expressions were initiated more quickly in the R genotype than those in the S genotype. The R genotype activated gene expression more effectively in response to freezing temperature after 48 h CA than the S genotype. The differentially expressed genes were identified as low temperature sensing and signaling-related genes, functional proteins and transcription factors, many of which were specifically or predominantly expressed in the R genotype under cold treatments, implying that these genes play important roles in the enhanced cold hardiness of bermudagrass. KEGG pathway enrichment analysis for DEGs revealed that photosynthesis, nitrogen metabolism and carbon fixation pathways play key roles in bermudagrass response to cold stress. CONCLUSIONS The results of this study may contribute to our understanding the molecular mechanism underlying the responses of bermudagrass to cold stress, and also provide important clues for further study and in-depth characterization of cold-resistance breeding candidate genes in bermudagrass.
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- Liang Chen
- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture and Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture and Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture and Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture and Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture and Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China.
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- College of Horticulture and Forestry Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture and Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China.
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- Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, 31905, Israel.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture and Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China.
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Kim YS, Lee M, Lee JH, Lee HJ, Park CM. The unified ICE-CBF pathway provides a transcriptional feedback control of freezing tolerance during cold acclimation in Arabidopsis. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2015; 89:187-201. [PMID: 26311645 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-015-0365-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2015] [Accepted: 08/21/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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During cold acclimation, C-repeat binding factors (CBFs) activate downstream targets, such as cold-regulated genes, leading to the acquisition of freezing tolerance in plants. Inducer of CBF expression 1 (ICE1) plays a key role by activating CBF3 expression in shaping the cold-induced transcriptome. While the ICE1-CBF3 regulon constitutes a major cold acclimation pathway, gene regulatory networks governing the CBF signaling are poorly understood. Here, we demonstrated that ICE1 and its paralog ICE2 induce CBF1, CBF2, and CBF3 by binding to the gene promoters. ICE2, like ICE1, was ubiquitinated by the high expression of osmotically responsive gene 1 (HOS1) E3 ubiquitin ligase. Whereas ICE2-defective ice2-2 mutant did not exhibit any discernible freezing-sensitive phenotypes, ice1-2 ice2-2/+ plant, which is defective in ICE1 and has a heterozygotic ice2 mutation, exhibited significantly reduced freezing tolerance. Accordingly, all three CBF genes were markedly down-regulated in the ice1-2 ice2-2/+ plant, indicating that ICE1 and ICE2 are functionally redundant with different implementations in inducing CBF genes. Together with the negative regulation of CBF3 by CBF2, we propose that the unified ICE-CBF pathway provides a transcriptional feedback of freezing tolerance to sustain plant development and survival during cold acclimation.
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- Ye Seul Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea.
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea.
- Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea.
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Li Y, Xu B, Du Q, Zhang D. Transcript abundance patterns of Populus C-repeat binding factor2 orthologs and genetic association of PsCBF2 allelic variation with physiological and biochemical traits in response to abiotic stress. PLANTA 2015; 242:295-312. [PMID: 25916311 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-015-2307-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2014] [Accepted: 04/16/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We conducted a candidate gene-based approach to search for genetic associations between 10 SNPs in PsCBF2 and 10 abiotic stress-related traits. The increasing incidence of abiotic stresses and the limitations of available treatments, particularly in trees, highlight the need to improve our understanding of the mechanisms of stress responses. In Arabidopsis, C-repeat binding factor 2 (CBF2) plays an important role in freezing tolerance and cold acclimation. Here, we isolated orthologs of CBF2 from five Populus species. Expression profiling revealed that the Populus CBF2s were preferentially induced in response to cold, with CBF2 transcript abundances ranging from 5.4- to 62-fold higher than in unstressed controls of the corresponding species. In addition, we used a candidate gene-based approach in Populus simonii Carr. to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in PsCBF2 associated with physiological and biochemical traits. PsCBF2 showed high nucleotide diversity (π T = 0.00549, θ w = 0.01406) and low average linkage disequilibrium (r (2) = 0.061). Association studies in 528 individuals of an association population showed that nine SNPs (false discovery rate Q < 0.10) and one haplotype (Q < 0.10) were significantly associated with differences in four physiological and biochemical traits (P < 0.005), with each marker explaining 1.31-5.87 % of the total variance in the corresponding trait. PsCBF2 transcript levels differed significantly in abundance among genotypic classes for most of the significant SNPs. Identification of these significant associations will help reveal the molecular basis of physiological differences and provide a starting point for marker-assisted selection for traits involved in stress tolerance in P. simonii.
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- Ying Li
- National Engineering Laboratory for Tree Breeding, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, No. 35, Qinghua East Road, Beijing, 100083, People's Republic of China,
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Chen H, Chen X, Chen D, Li J, Zhang Y, Wang A. A comparison of the low temperature transcriptomes of two tomato genotypes that differ in freezing tolerance: Solanum lycopersicum and Solanum habrochaites. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 15:132. [PMID: 26048292 PMCID: PMC4458020 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-015-0521-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2014] [Accepted: 05/11/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Solanum lycopersicum and Solanum habrochaites are closely related plant species; however, their cold tolerance capacities are different. The wild species S. habrochaites is more cold tolerant than the cultivated species S. lycopersicum. RESULTS The transcriptomes of S. lycopersicum and S. habrochaites leaf tissues under cold stress were studied using Illumina high-throughput RNA sequencing. The results showed that more than 200 million reads could be mapped to identify genes, microRNAs (miRNAs), and alternative splicing (AS) events to confirm the transcript abundance under cold stress. The results indicated that 21% and 23% of genes were differentially expressed in the cultivated and wild tomato species, respectively, and a series of changes in S. lycopersicum and S. habrochaites transcriptomes occur when plants are moved from warm to cold conditions. Moreover, the gene expression patterns for S. lycopersicum and S. habrochaites were dissimilar; however, there were some overlapping genes that were regulated by low temperature in both tomato species. An AS analysis identified 75,885 novel splice junctions among 172,910 total splice junctions, which suggested that the relative abundance of alternative intron isoforms in S. lycopersicum and S. habrochaites shifted significantly under cold stress. In addition, we identified 89 miRNA sequences that may regulate relevant target genes. Our data indicated that some miRNAs (e.g., miR159, miR319, and miR6022) play roles in the response to cold stress. CONCLUSIONS Differences in gene expression, AS events, and miRNAs under cold stress may contribute to the observed differences in cold tolerance of these two tomato species.
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- Hongyu Chen
- Heilongjiang Provincial Key University Laboratory of Agricultural Functional Genes, College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030, China.
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- College of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030, China.
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- College of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030, China.
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- ABLife, Inc, Wuhan, 430075, China.
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- Heilongjiang Provincial Key University Laboratory of Agricultural Functional Genes, College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030, China.
- College of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030, China.
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Munekage YN, Inoue S, Yoneda Y, Yokota A. Distinct palisade tissue development processes promoted by leaf autonomous signalling and long-distance signalling in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2015; 38:1116-26. [PMID: 25293694 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2014] [Revised: 10/01/2014] [Accepted: 10/01/2014] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Plants develop palisade tissue consisting of cylindrical mesophyll cells located at the adaxial side of leaves in response to high light. To understand high light signalling in palisade tissue development, we investigated leaf autonomous and long-distance signal responses of palisade tissue development using Arabidopsis thaliana. Illumination of a developing leaf with high light induced cell height elongation, whereas illumination of mature leaves with high light increased cell density and suppressed cell width expansion in palisade tissue of new leaves. Examination using phototropin1 phototropin2 showed that blue light signalling mediated by phototropins was involved in cell height elongation of the leaf autonomous response rather than the cell density increase induced by long-distance signalling. Hydrogen peroxide treatment induced cylindrical palisade tissue cell formation in both a leaf autonomous and long-distance manner, suggesting involvement of oxidative signals. Although constitutive expression of transcription factors involved in systemic-acquired acclimation to excess light, ZAT10 and ZAT12, induced cylindrical palisade tissue cell formation, knockout of these genes did not affect cylindrical palisade tissue cell formation. We conclude that two distinct signalling pathways - leaf autonomous signalling mostly dependent on blue light signalling and long-distance signalling from mature leaves that sense high light and oxidative stress - control palisade tissue development in A. thaliana.
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- Yuri Nakajima Munekage
- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0192, Japan
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Lee HG, Seo PJ. The MYB96-HHP module integrates cold and abscisic acid signaling to activate the CBF-COR pathway in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2015; 82:962-977. [PMID: 25912720 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2015] [Revised: 04/20/2015] [Accepted: 04/21/2015] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Various environmental stresses limit plant growth, development, and reproductive success. Plants have therefore evolved sophisticated adaptive responses to deal with environmental challenges. The responses of plants to environmental stresses are mainly mediated by abscisic acid (ABA)-dependent and ABA-independent signaling pathways. While these two pathways have been implicated to play discrete roles in abiotic stress responses, accumulating evidence suggests that they are also intertwined. Here, we report that an R2R3-type MYB transcription factor, MYB96, integrates the ABA and cold signaling pathways. In addition to its role in ABA-mediated drought responses, MYB96 is also induced by cold stress in an ABA-independent manner and subsequently activates freezing tolerance. Notably, MYB96 regulates HEPTAHELICAL PROTEIN (HHP) genes by binding to their promoters. The HHP proteins, in turn, interact with C-REPEAT BINDING FACTOR (CBF) upstream regulators, such as INDUCER OF CBF EXPRESSION 1 (ICE1), ICE2, and CALMODULIN-BINDING TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR 3 (CAMTA3). The specific interactive networks of HHPs with the CBF upstream regulators are necessary to facilitate transcriptional activation of the CBF regulon under stressful conditions. Together, the MYB96-HHP module integrates ABA-dependent and ABA-independent signals and activates the CBF pathway, ensuring plant adaptation to a wide range of adverse environmental fluctuations.
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- Hong Gil Lee
- Department of Bioactive Material Sciences and Research Center of Bioactive Materials, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, 561-756, Korea
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- Department of Bioactive Material Sciences and Research Center of Bioactive Materials, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, 561-756, Korea
- Department of Chemistry and Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, 561-756, Korea
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Lindlöf A, Chawade A, Sikora P, Olsson O. Comparative Transcriptomics of Sijung and Jumli Marshi Rice during Early Chilling Stress Imply Multiple Protective Mechanisms. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0125385. [PMID: 25973918 PMCID: PMC4431715 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2014] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Low temperature is one of the major environmental factors that adversely affect plant growth and yield. Many cereal crops from tropical regions, such as rice, are chilling sensitive and, therefore, are affected already at <10 °C. Interestingly, it has been demonstrated that chilling susceptibility varies greatly among rice varieties, which indicates differences in the underlying molecular responses. Understanding these differences is vital for continued development of rational breeding and transgenic strategies for more tolerant varieties. Thus, in this study, we conducted a comparative global gene expression profiling analysis of the chilling tolerant varieties Sijung and Jumli Marshi (spp. Japonica) during early chilling stress (<24 h, 10 °C). METHODS AND RESULTS Global gene expression experiments were conducted with Agilent Rice Gene Expression Microarray 4 x 44 K. The analysed results showed that there was a relatively low (percentage or number) overlap in differentially expressed genes in the two varieties and that substantially more genes were up-regulated in Jumli Marshi than in Sijung but the number of down-regulated genes were higher in Sijung. In broad GO annotation terms, the activated response pathways in Sijung and Jumli Marshi were coherent, as a majority of the genes belonged to the catalytic, transcription regulator or transporter activity categories. However, a more detailed analysis revealed essential differences. For example, in Sijung, activation of calcium and phosphorylation signaling pathways, as well as of lipid transporters and exocytosis-related proteins take place very early in the stress response. Such responses can be coupled to processes aimed at strengthening the cell wall and plasma membrane against disruption. On the contrary, in Jumli Marshi, sugar production, detoxification, ROS scavenging, protection of chloroplast translation, and plausibly the activation of the jasmonic acid pathway were the very first response activities. These can instead be coupled to detoxification processes. CONCLUSIONS Based on the results inferred from this study, we conclude that different, but overlapping, strategies are undertaken by the two varieties to cope with the chilling stress; in Sijung the initial molecular responses seem to be mainly targeted at strengthening the cell wall and plasma membrane, whereas in Jumli Marshi the protection of chloroplast translation and detoxification is prioritized.
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- Angelica Lindlöf
- Systems Biology Research Centre, University of Skövde, 541 28 Skövde, Sweden
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- CropTailor AB, Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Box 124, SE 22100 Lund, Sweden
- Department of Immunotechnology, Lund University, SE-22381, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, SE-40530, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- CropTailor AB, Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Box 124, SE 22100 Lund, Sweden
- Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Box 124, SE 22100 Lund, Sweden
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Park S, Lee CM, Doherty CJ, Gilmour SJ, Kim Y, Thomashow MF. Regulation of the Arabidopsis CBF regulon by a complex low-temperature regulatory network. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2015; 82:193-207. [PMID: 25736223 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 282] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2014] [Revised: 01/26/2015] [Accepted: 02/09/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Exposure of Arabidopsis thaliana plants to low non-freezing temperatures results in an increase in freezing tolerance that involves action of the C-repeat binding factor (CBF) regulatory pathway. CBF1, CBF2 and CBF3, which are rapidly induced in response to low temperature, encode closely related AP2/ERF DNA-binding proteins that recognize the C-repeat (CRT)/dehydration-responsive element (DRE) DNA regulatory element present in the promoters of CBF-regulated genes. The CBF transcription factors alter the expression of more than 100 genes, known as the CBF regulon, which contribute to an increase in freezing tolerance. In this study, we investigated the extent to which cold induction of the CBF regulon is regulated by transcription factors other than CBF1, CBF2 and CBF3, and whether freezing tolerance is dependent on a functional CBF-CRT/DRE regulatory module. To address these issues we generated transgenic lines that constitutively overexpressed a truncated version of CBF2 that had dominant negative effects on the function of the CBF-CRT/DRE regulatory module, and 11 transcription factors encoded by genes that were rapidly cold-induced in parallel with the 'first-wave' CBF genes, and determined the effects that overexpressing these proteins had on global gene expression and freezing tolerance. Our results indicate that cold regulation of the CBF regulon involves extensive co-regulation by other first-wave transcription factors; that the low-temperature regulatory network beyond the CBF pathway is complex and highly interconnected; and that the increase in freezing tolerance that occurs with cold acclimation is only partially dependent on the CBF-CRT/DRE regulatory module.
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- Sunchung Park
- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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Liu R, Liu Y, Ye N, Zhu G, Chen M, Jia L, Xia Y, Shi L, Jia W, Zhang J. AtDsPTP1 acts as a negative regulator in osmotic stress signalling during Arabidopsis seed germination and seedling establishment. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2015; 66:1339-53. [PMID: 25540435 PMCID: PMC4339596 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Dual-specificity protein phosphatases (DsPTPs) target both tyrosine and serine/threonine residues and play roles in plant growth and development. We have characterized an Arabidopsis mutant, dsptp1, which shows a higher seed germination rate and better root elongation under osmotic stress than the wild type. By contrast, its overexpression line, DsPTP1-OE, shows inhibited seed germination and root elongation; and its complemented line, DsPTP1-Com, resembles the wild type and rescues DsPTP1-OE under osmotic stress. Expression of AtDsPTP1 is enhanced by osmotic stress in seed coats, bases of rosette leaves, and roots. Compared with the wild type, the dsptp1 mutant shows increased proline accumulation, reduced malondialdehyde (MDA) content and ion leakage, and enhanced antioxidant enzyme activity in response to osmotic stress. AtDsPTP1 regulates the transcript levels of various dehydration-responsive genes under osmotic stress. Abscisic acid (ABA) accumulation in dsptp1 under osmotic stress is reduced with reduced expression of the ABA-biosynthesis gene NCED3 and increased expression of the ABA-catabolism gene CYP707A4. AtDsPTP1 also regulates the expression of key components in the ABA-signalling pathway. In conclusion, AtDsPTP1 regulates ABA accumulation, and acts as a negative regulator in osmotic stress signalling during Arabidospsis seed germination and seedling establishment.
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- Rui Liu
- College of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Science, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China
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- Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
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- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangdong, China
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- School of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China School of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Sasaki K, Liu Y, Kim MH, Imai R. An RNA chaperone, AtCSP2, negatively regulates salt stress tolerance. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2015; 10:e1042637. [PMID: 26252779 PMCID: PMC4623246 DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2015.1042637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Cold shock domain (CSD) proteins are RNA chaperones that destabilize RNA secondary structures. Arabidopsis Cold Shock Domain Protein 2 (AtCSP2), one of the 4 CSD proteins (AtCSP1-AtCSP4) in Arabidopsis, is induced during cold acclimation but negatively regulates freezing tolerance. Here, we analyzed the function of AtCSP2 in salt stress tolerance. A double mutant, with reduced AtCSP2 and no AtCSP4 expression (atcsp2-3 atcsp4-1), displayed higher survival rates after salt stress. In addition, overexpression of AtCSP2 resulted in reduced salt stress tolerance. These data demonstrate that AtCSP2 acts as a negative regulator of salt stress tolerance in Arabidopsis.
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- Kentaro Sasaki
- Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center (HARC); National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO); Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Japan
- These authors contributed equally to this work
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- Graduate School of Agriculture; Hokkaido University; Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
- These authors contributed equally to this work
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- Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center (HARC); National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO); Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Japan
- Center for Plant Aging Research; Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center (HARC); National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO); Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Japan
- Graduate School of Agriculture; Hokkaido University; Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
- Correspondence to: Ryozo Imai;
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Shi Y, Ding Y, Yang S. Cold signal transduction and its interplay with phytohormones during cold acclimation. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 56:7-15. [PMID: 25189343 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcu115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Cold stress is a major environmental factor that affects plant growth, development, productivity and distribution. In higher plants, the known major cold signaling pathway is the C-repeat (CRT)-binding factor/dehydration-responsive element (DRE) binding factor (CBF/DREB)-mediated transcriptional regulatory cascade, which is essential for the induction of a set of cold responsive (COR) genes. Recent studies indicate that various plant hormones are also involved in responses to cold stress. This review summarizes recent progress in cold signaling and our understanding of phytohormone signaling in the regulation of plant responses to cold stress.
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- Yiting Shi
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China These authors contributed equally to this work
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China These authors contributed equally to this work
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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Sharma M, Laxmi A. Jasmonates: Emerging Players in Controlling Temperature Stress Tolerance. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:1129. [PMID: 26779205 PMCID: PMC4701901 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.01129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2015] [Accepted: 11/29/2015] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The sedentary life of plants has forced them to live in an environment that is characterized by the presence of numerous challenges in terms of biotic and abiotic stresses. Phytohormones play essential roles in mediating plant physiology and alleviating various environmental perturbations. Jasmonates are a group of oxylipin compounds occurring ubiquitously in the plant kingdom that play pivotal roles in response to developmental and environmental cues. Jasmonates (JAs) have been shown to participate in unison with key factors of other signal transduction pathway, including those involved in response to abiotic stress. Recent findings have furnished large body of information suggesting the role of jasmonates in cold and heat stress. JAs have been shown to regulate C-repeat binding factor (CBF) pathway during cold stress. The interaction between the integrants of JA signaling and components of CBF pathway demonstrates a complex relationship between the two. JAs have also been shown to counteract chilling stress by inducing ROS avoidance enzymes. In addition, several lines of evidence suggest the positive regulation of thermotolerance by JA. The present review provides insights into biosynthesis, signal transduction pathway of jasmonic acid and their role in response to temperature stress.
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Su F, Jacquard C, Villaume S, Michel J, Rabenoelina F, Clément C, Barka EA, Dhondt-Cordelier S, Vaillant-Gaveau N. Burkholderia phytofirmans PsJN reduces impact of freezing temperatures on photosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:810. [PMID: 26483823 PMCID: PMC4591482 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2015] [Accepted: 09/16/2015] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Several plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are known to improve plant tolerance to multiple stresses, including low temperatures. However, mechanisms underlying this protection are still poorly understood. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of the endophytic PGPR, Burkholderia phytofirmans strain PsJN (Bp PsJN), on Arabidopsis thaliana cold tolerance using photosynthesis parameters as physiological markers. Under standard conditions, our results indicated that Bp PsJN inoculation led to growth promotion of Arabidopsis plants without significant modification on photosynthesis parameters and chloroplast organization. However, bacterial colonization induced a cell wall strengthening in the mesophyll. Impact of inoculation modes (either on seeds or by soil irrigation) and their effects overnight at 0, -1, or -3°C, were investigated by following photosystem II (PSII) activity and gas exchanges. Following low temperatures stress, a decrease of photosynthesis parameters was observed. In addition, during three consecutive nights or days at -1°C, PSII activity was monitored. Pigment contents, RuBisCO protein abundance, expression of several genes including RbcS, RbcL, CBF1, CBF2, CBF3, ICE1, COR15a, and COR78 were evaluated at the end of exposure. To assess the impact of the bacteria on cell ultrastructure under low temperatures, microscopic observations were achieved. Results indicated that freezing treatment induced significant changes in PSII activity as early as the first cold day, whereas the same impact on PSII activity was observed only during the third cold night. The significant effects conferred by PsJN were differential accumulation of pigments, and reduced expression of RbcL and COR78. Microscopical observations showed an alteration/disorganization in A. thaliana leaf mesophyll cells independently of the freezing treatments. The presence of bacteria during the three successive nights or days did not significantly improved A. thaliana responses but prevented the plasmalemma disruption under freezing stress.
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- Fan Su
- Unité de Recherche Vignes et Vins de Champagne – EA 4707, Laboratoire de Stress, Défenses et Reproduction des Plantes, UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Université de Reims Champagne-ArdenneReims, France
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- Unité de Recherche Vignes et Vins de Champagne – EA 4707, Laboratoire de Stress, Défenses et Reproduction des Plantes, UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Université de Reims Champagne-ArdenneReims, France
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- Unité de Recherche Vignes et Vins de Champagne – EA 4707, Laboratoire de Stress, Défenses et Reproduction des Plantes, UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Université de Reims Champagne-ArdenneReims, France
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- Laboratoire de Recherche en Nanosciences, Pôle FarmanReims, France
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- Unité de Recherche Vignes et Vins de Champagne – EA 4707, Laboratoire de Stress, Défenses et Reproduction des Plantes, UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Université de Reims Champagne-ArdenneReims, France
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- Unité de Recherche Vignes et Vins de Champagne – EA 4707, Laboratoire de Stress, Défenses et Reproduction des Plantes, UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Université de Reims Champagne-ArdenneReims, France
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- Unité de Recherche Vignes et Vins de Champagne – EA 4707, Laboratoire de Stress, Défenses et Reproduction des Plantes, UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Université de Reims Champagne-ArdenneReims, France
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- Unité de Recherche Vignes et Vins de Champagne – EA 4707, Laboratoire de Stress, Défenses et Reproduction des Plantes, UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Université de Reims Champagne-ArdenneReims, France
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- Unité de Recherche Vignes et Vins de Champagne – EA 4707, Laboratoire de Stress, Défenses et Reproduction des Plantes, UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Université de Reims Champagne-ArdenneReims, France
- *Correspondence: Nathalie Vaillant-Gaveau, Unité de Recherche Vignes et Vins de Champagne – EA 4707, Laboratoire de Stress, Défenses et Reproduction des Plantes, UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Moulin de la Housse – Bâtiment 18, BP 1039, 51687 Reims Cedex 2, France,
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Lei X, Xiao Y, Xia W, Mason AS, Yang Y, Ma Z, Peng M. RNA-seq analysis of oil palm under cold stress reveals a different C-repeat binding factor (CBF) mediated gene expression pattern in Elaeis guineensis compared to other species. PLoS One 2014; 9:e114482. [PMID: 25479236 PMCID: PMC4257668 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2014] [Accepted: 11/10/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Elaeis guineensis as a tropical oil-crop is particularly sensitive to low temperature. Improvement of cold-tolerance may significantly increase the total cultivation area of this tropical oil-crop worldwide. We sequenced cold-treated and control (untreated) samples of Elaeis guineensis. De novo assembly generated 51,452 unigenes with an average length of 703 bp. Subsequently, these expressed sequences were functionally annotated. In the K category (transcription factors) of COG (Cluster of Orthologous Group) annotation, the largest proportion of genes induced and repressed at least two-fold under cold stress were from the AP2/ERE family, indicating that C-repeat binding factor, (CBFs, members of the AP2/ERE family) may play a central role in cold tolerance in Elaeis guineensis. Subsequently, the CBF-mediated signal transduction pathway was reconstructed based on transcriptome data and the gene expression profile involving the pathway was examined using real-time quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR). CBFs reached maximum transcript level both at medium (4 h) and long period time points (7 days), contrary to the expression pattern of CBFs in Arabidopsis and rice. Moreover, the promoters of downstream Cold Responsive gene (CORs) regulated by CBFs were analyzed. Conservation, mutation and absence of the DRE core motif were detected in the promoters of six CORs. These mutations in DRE motifs suggest that CORs may not be induced via cold stress in Elaeis guineensis.
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- Xintao Lei
- Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan, P. R. China
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- Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan, P. R. China
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- Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan, P. R. China
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- School of Agriculture and Food Sciences and Centre for Integrative Legume Research, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan, P. R. China
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- Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Haikou, Hainan, P. R. China
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- Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Haikou, Hainan, P. R. China
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Todorovska EG, Kolev S, Christov NK, Balint A, Kocsy G, Vágújfalvi A, Galiba G. The expression of CBF genes at Fr-2 locus is associated with the level of frost tolerance in Bulgarian winter wheat cultivars. BIOTECHNOL BIOTEC EQ 2014; 28:392-401. [PMID: 26740761 PMCID: PMC4697193 DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2014.944401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2014] [Accepted: 06/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The regulation of the majority of cold-regulated genes in plants is mediated by CBF (C-repeat binding factors) transcription factor family. Natural differences in frost tolerance (FT) of wheat have been mapped to the Fr-2 (Frost Resistance-2) locus on chromosome group 5 and are associated with variation in threshold induction temperatures and/or transcript levels of CBF genes. This study used real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) to compare the relative expression levels of four T. aestivum CBF genes (TaCBF15.2, TaCBFA19, TaCBFA2 and TaCBFD21) in crown tissue of two Bulgarian hexaploid winter wheat cultivars (Milena and Russalka) with distinct levels of low-temperature (LT) tolerance but same vernalization requirement, and the spring cultivar Chinese Spring. The transcription profiles of the selected TaCBF genes showed that they are induced by cold treatment at 2 °C. Analysis of transcript abundance revealed that the four TaCBF genes were expressed at higher levels in the frost tolerant Milena than in the susceptible Russalka. Largest differences (fivefold and fourfold) in expression levels between both winter cultivars were observed in two of the analysed genes, TaCBF15.2 and TaCBFA19, respectively. The higher steady-state expression levels of TaCBF genes before the onset of the LT treatment in Milena, combined with stronger induction by cold treatment, suggest that these molecular responses to LT are associated with superior FT development capacity. The results expand our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying LT acclimation in Bulgarian wheat and can be used for development of functional markers for improvement of FT wheat-breeding programmes.
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences , Martonvásár , Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences , Martonvásár , Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences , Martonvásár , Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences , Martonvásár , Hungary
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Cohu CM, Muller O, Adams WW, Demmig-Adams B. Leaf anatomical and photosynthetic acclimation to cool temperature and high light in two winter versus two summer annuals. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2014; 152:164-73. [PMID: 24450735 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2013] [Revised: 12/05/2013] [Accepted: 12/11/2013] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Acclimation of foliar features to cool temperature and high light was characterized in winter (Spinacia oleracea L. cv. Giant Nobel; Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynhold Col-0 and ecotypes from Sweden and Italy) versus summer (Helianthus annuus L. cv. Soraya; Cucurbita pepo L. cv. Italian Zucchini Romanesco) annuals. Significant relationships existed among leaf dry mass per area, photosynthesis, leaf thickness and palisade mesophyll thickness. While the acclimatory response of the summer annuals to cool temperature and/or high light levels was limited, the winter annuals increased the number of palisade cell layers, ranging from two layers under moderate light and warm temperature to between four and five layers under cool temperature and high light. A significant relationship was also found between palisade tissue thickness and either cross-sectional area or number of phloem cells (each normalized by vein density) in minor veins among all four species and growth regimes. The two winter annuals, but not the summer annuals, thus exhibited acclimatory adjustments of minor vein phloem to cool temperature and/or high light, with more numerous and larger phloem cells and a higher maximal photosynthesis rate. The upregulation of photosynthesis in winter annuals in response to low growth temperature may thus depend on not only (1) a greater volume of photosynthesizing palisade tissue but also (2) leaf veins containing additional phloem cells and presumably capable of exporting a greater volume of sugars from the leaves to the rest of the plant.
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- Christopher M Cohu
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0334, USA
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Jung JH, Lee HJ, Park MJ, Park CM. Beyond ubiquitination: proteolytic and nonproteolytic roles of HOS1. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2014; 19:538-45. [PMID: 24768209 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2014] [Revised: 03/18/2014] [Accepted: 03/28/2014] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The E3 ubiquitin ligase HIGH EXPRESSION OF OSMOTICALLY RESPONSIVE GENES 1 (HOS1) functions as a cold signaling attenuator by degrading the INDUCER OF CBF EXPRESSION 1 transcription factor, which is a key regulator of the cold-induced transcriptome and freezing tolerance in plants. Recent studies demonstrate that HOS1 also plays nonproteolytic roles in gene expression regulation. HOS1 acts as a chromatin remodeling factor that modulates FLOWERING LOCUS C chromatin in cold regulation of flowering time. It associates with the nuclear pore complex to facilitate nucleocytoplasmic mRNA export to maintain circadian periodicity over a range of light and temperature conditions. In this review, we summarize recent advances in molecular mechanisms underlying HOS1 function during plant development in response to fluctuating environmental conditions.
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- Jae-Hoon Jung
- Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1LR, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea; Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea.
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Chow BY, Sanchez SE, Breton G, Pruneda-Paz JL, Krogan NT, Kay SA. Transcriptional regulation of LUX by CBF1 mediates cold input to the circadian clock in Arabidopsis. Curr Biol 2014; 24:1518-24. [PMID: 24954045 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2013] [Revised: 04/11/2014] [Accepted: 05/13/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Circadian clocks allow organisms to anticipate daily changes in the environment to enhance overall fitness. Transcription factors (TFs) play a prominent role in the molecular mechanism but are incompletely described possibly due to functional redundancy, gene family proliferation, and/or lack of context-specific assays. To overcome these, we performed a high-throughput yeast one-hybrid screen using the LUX ARRYHTHMO (LUX) gene promoter as bait against an Arabidopsis TF library. LUX is a unique gene because its mutation causes severe clock defects and transcript maintains high-amplitude cycling in the cold. We report the well-characterized cold-inducible C-repeat (CRT)/drought-responsive element (DRE) binding factor CBF1/DREB1b is a transcriptional regulator of LUX. We show that CBF1 binds the CRT in the LUX promoter, and both genes overlap in temporal and spatial expression. CBF1 overexpression causes upregulation of LUX and also alters other clock gene transcripts. LUX promoter regions including the CRT and Evening Element (EE) are sufficient for high-amplitude transcriptional cycling in the cold, and cold-acclimated lux seedlings are sensitive to freezing stress. Our data show cold signaling is integrated into the clock by CBF-mediated regulation of LUX expression, thereby defining a new transcriptional mechanism for temperature input to the circadian clock.
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- Brenda Y Chow
- University of Southern California, Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biology Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- University of Southern California, Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biology Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- American University, Department of Biology, Washington, DC 20016, USA
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- University of Southern California, Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biology Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
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Liao P, Chen QF, Chye ML. Transgenic Arabidopsis Flowers Overexpressing Acyl-CoA-Binding Protein ACBP6 are Freezing Tolerant. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 55:1055-71. [DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcu037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Jeknić Z, Pillman KA, Dhillon T, Skinner JS, Veisz O, Cuesta-Marcos A, Hayes PM, Jacobs AK, Chen THH, Stockinger EJ. Hv-CBF2A overexpression in barley accelerates COR gene transcript accumulation and acquisition of freezing tolerance during cold acclimation. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 84:67-82. [PMID: 23949371 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-013-0119-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2013] [Accepted: 08/03/2013] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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C-Repeat Binding Factors (CBFs) are DNA-binding transcriptional activators of gene pathways imparting freezing tolerance. Poaceae contain three CBF subfamilies, two of which, HvCBF3/CBFIII and HvCBF4/CBFIV, are unique to this taxon. To gain mechanistic insight into HvCBF4/CBFIV CBFs we overexpressed Hv-CBF2A in spring barley (Hordeum vulgare) cultivar 'Golden Promise'. The Hv-CBF2A overexpressing lines exhibited stunted growth, poor yield, and greater freezing tolerance compared to non-transformed 'Golden Promise'. Differences in freezing tolerance were apparent only upon cold acclimation. During cold acclimation freezing tolerance of the Hv-CBF2A overexpressing lines increased more rapidly than that of 'Golden Promise' and paralleled the freezing tolerance of the winter hardy barley 'Dicktoo'. Transcript levels of candidate CBF target genes, COR14B and DHN5 were increased in the overexpressor lines at warm temperatures, and at cold temperatures they accumulated to much higher levels in the Hv-CBF2A overexpressors than in 'Golden Promise'. Hv-CBF2A overexpression also increased transcript levels of other CBF genes at FROST RESISTANCE-H2-H2 (FR-H2) possessing CRT/DRE sites in their upstream regions, the most notable of which was CBF12. CBF12 transcript levels exhibited a relatively constant incremental increase above levels in 'Golden Promise' both at warm and cold. These data indicate that Hv-CBF2A activates target genes at warm temperatures and that transcript accumulation for some of these targets is greatly enhanced by cold temperatures.
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- Zoran Jeknić
- Department of Horticulture, ALS 4017, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
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