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Yao P, Zhang C, Bi Z, Liu Y, Liu Z, Wei J, Su X, Bai J, Cui J, Sun C. Overexpression of Potato PYL16 Gene in Tobacco Enhances the Transgenic Plant Tolerance to Drought Stress. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:8644. [PMID: 39201331 PMCID: PMC11354512 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25168644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2024] [Revised: 08/05/2024] [Accepted: 08/06/2024] [Indexed: 09/02/2024] Open
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PYR/PYL/RCAR proteins are abscisic acid (ABA) receptors that play a crucial role in plant responses to abiotic stresses. However, there have been no research reports on potato PYL so far. In this study, a potato PYL gene named StPYL16 was identified based on transcriptome data under drought stress. Molecular characteristics analysis revealed that the StPYL16 protein possesses an extremely conserved PYL family domain. The tissue expression results indicated that the StPYL16 is predominantly expressed at high levels in the underground parts, particularly in tubers. Abiotic stress response showed that StPYL16 has a significant response to drought treatment. Further research on the promoter showed that drought stress could enhance the activation activity of the StPYL16 promoter on the reporter gene. Then, transient and stable expression of StPYL16 in tobacco enhanced the drought resistance of transgenic plants, resulting in improved plant height, stem thickness, and root development. In addition, compared with wild-type plants, StPYL16 transgenic tobacco exhibited lower malondialdehyde (MDA) content, higher proline accumulation, and stronger superoxide dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD), and catalase (CAT) activities. Meanwhile, StPYL16 also up-regulated the expression levels of stress-related genes (NtSOD, NtCAT, NtPOD, NtRD29A, NtLEA5, and NtP5CS) in transgenic plants under drought treatment. These findings indicated that the StPYL16 gene plays a positive regulatory role in potato responses to drought stress.
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- Panfeng Yao
- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (P.Y.); (C.Z.); (Z.B.); (Y.L.); (Z.L.); (J.W.); (X.S.); (J.B.); (J.C.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (P.Y.); (C.Z.); (Z.B.); (Y.L.); (Z.L.); (J.W.); (X.S.); (J.B.); (J.C.)
- College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (P.Y.); (C.Z.); (Z.B.); (Y.L.); (Z.L.); (J.W.); (X.S.); (J.B.); (J.C.)
- College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (P.Y.); (C.Z.); (Z.B.); (Y.L.); (Z.L.); (J.W.); (X.S.); (J.B.); (J.C.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (P.Y.); (C.Z.); (Z.B.); (Y.L.); (Z.L.); (J.W.); (X.S.); (J.B.); (J.C.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (P.Y.); (C.Z.); (Z.B.); (Y.L.); (Z.L.); (J.W.); (X.S.); (J.B.); (J.C.)
- College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (P.Y.); (C.Z.); (Z.B.); (Y.L.); (Z.L.); (J.W.); (X.S.); (J.B.); (J.C.)
- College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (P.Y.); (C.Z.); (Z.B.); (Y.L.); (Z.L.); (J.W.); (X.S.); (J.B.); (J.C.)
- College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (P.Y.); (C.Z.); (Z.B.); (Y.L.); (Z.L.); (J.W.); (X.S.); (J.B.); (J.C.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (P.Y.); (C.Z.); (Z.B.); (Y.L.); (Z.L.); (J.W.); (X.S.); (J.B.); (J.C.)
- College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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Xue G, He A, Yang H, Song L, Li H, Wu C, Ruan J. Genome-wide identification, abiotic stress, and expression analysis of PYL family in Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum (L.) Gaertn.) during grain development. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2024; 24:725. [PMID: 39080537 PMCID: PMC11287990 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-024-05447-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2024] [Accepted: 07/22/2024] [Indexed: 08/03/2024]
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BACKGROUND Abscisic acid (ABA) is a plant hormone that plays an important role in plant resistance to drought, salinity, cold, and pathogens. It is also important for regulating plant growth and development. Pyrabactin resistance/pyr1-like/regulatory components of the ABA receptor (PYL/RCAR) are ABA receptor proteins in plants and the core of ABA signal transduction pathways in plant regulatory factors. At present, there are no reports on the PYL family of Tartary buckwheat. RESULTS In this study, 19 paralogous form PYL genes in buckwheat were identified at the whole-genome level and named FtPYL1-FtPYL19 according to their positions on chromosomes. We further analyzed the gene structure, conserved motifs, cis-acting elements, gene duplication, phylogenetic relationships, and expression patterns under different stress treatments and during grain development of the 19 paralogous form PYL genes in Tartary buckwheat. The FtPYL gene exhibits a single exonic gene structure for about 68.4% of the duplicated forms from the total paralogous forms. The remaining subfamilies, such as I and II, contain three exons and two exons (e.g., FtPYL19), respectively. Nineteen FtPYL genes were evenly distributed across the eight chromosomes, with at least one FtPYL gene on each chromosome. In the FtPYL gene family, there was one tandem repeat event and five gene duplication events. We investigated the gene expression levels of FtPYL gene under four abiotic stresses and different stages of grain development. Under drought stress (PEG6000), the relative expression levels of FtPYL14 and FtPYL15 increased by fourfold. Under high temperature stress (38℃), the relative expression level of FtPYL16 dropped to 0.12, and that of FtPYL17 fell to 0.22. At different stages of grain development, the gene expression level of FtPY15 is extremely high at 19 D. The relative expression level of FtPYL7 in roots and stems reaches up to approximately 450, and the relative expression level of FtPYL10 in 13 D also reaches up to 248. In this study, the PYL gene family of Tartary buckwheat was identified and analyzed based on the whole genome, and 19 paralogous form FtPYL genes of Tartary buckwheat were bioinformatically analyzed. The expression patterns of 19 paralogous form FtPYL genes in Tartary buckwheat cultivars under different stress treatments and during grain development were analyzed. It was found that the FtPYL gene played an important role in grain development.
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- Guoxing Xue
- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
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- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
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- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
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- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
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- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
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- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
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- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China.
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Chai W, Li H, Xu H, Zhu Q, Li S, Yuan C, Ji W, Wang J, Sheng L. ZmDST44 Gene Is a Positive Regulator in Plant Drought Stress Tolerance. BIOLOGY 2024; 13:552. [PMID: 39194490 DOI: 10.3390/biology13080552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2024] [Revised: 07/19/2024] [Accepted: 07/22/2024] [Indexed: 08/29/2024]
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Improving drought tolerance in plants is essential for increasing crop yields under water-limited conditions. In this study, we investigated the functional role of the maize gene ZmDST44, which is targeted by the miRNA ZmmiR139. Our results indicate that ZmmiR139 regulates ZmDST44 by cleaving its mRNA, as confirmed by inverse expression patterns and 5'-RACE analysis. Overexpression of ZmDST44 in Arabidopsis, rice, and maize resulted in significant enhancements in drought tolerance. Transgenic plants exhibited reduced malondialdehyde (MDA) levels, increased proline accumulation, and upregulation of drought-responsive genes compared to wild-type plants. Transgenic Arabidopsis and rice showed improved drought resistance and higher post-drought recovery rates, and transgenic maize displayed lower sensitivity to drought stress. These findings suggest that ZmDST44 acts as a positive regulator of drought tolerance across different plant species and holds promise for developing drought-resistant crops through genetic engineering.
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- Wenbo Chai
- Lianyungang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lianyungang 222006, China
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- Lianyungang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lianyungang 222006, China
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- Lianyungang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lianyungang 222006, China
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- Lianyungang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lianyungang 222006, China
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- Lianyungang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lianyungang 222006, China
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- Lianyungang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lianyungang 222006, China
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- Lianyungang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lianyungang 222006, China
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- Lianyungang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lianyungang 222006, China
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- Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hefei 230036, China
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Zhai Z, Ao Q, Yang L, Lu F, Cheng H, Fang Q, Li C, Chen Q, Yan J, Wei Y, Jiang YQ, Yang B. Rapeseed PP2C37 Interacts with PYR/PYL Abscisic Acid Receptors and Negatively Regulates Drought Tolerance. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2024; 72:12445-12458. [PMID: 38771652 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.4c00385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2024]
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Global water deficit is a severe abiotic stress threatening the yielding and quality of crops. Abscisic acid (ABA) is a phytohormone that mediates drought tolerance. Protein kinases and phosphatases function as molecular switches in eukaryotes. Protein phosphatases type 2C (PP2Cs) are a major family that play essential roles in ABA signaling and stress responses. However, the role and underlying mechanism of PP2C in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) mediating drought response has not been reported yet. Here, we characterized a PP2C family member, BnaPP2C37, and its expression level was highly induced by ABA and dehydration treatments. It negatively regulates drought tolerance in rapeseed. We further identified that BnaPP2C37 interacted with multiple PYR/PYL receptors and a drought regulator BnaCPK5 (calcium-dependent protein kinase 5) through yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) and bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assays. Specifically, BnaPYL1 and BnaPYL9 repress BnaPP2C37 phosphatase activity. Moreover, the pull-down assay and phosphatase assays show BnaPP2C37 interacts with BnaCPK5 to dephosphorylate BnaCPK5 and its downstream BnaABF3. Furthermore, a dual-luciferase assay revealed BnaPP2C37 transcript level was enhanced by BnaABF3 and BnaABF4, forming a negative feedback regulation to ABA response. In summary, we identified that BnaPP2C37 functions negatively in drought tolerance of rapeseed, and its phosphatase activity is repressed by BnaPYL1/9 whereas its transcriptional level is upregulated by BnaABF3/4.
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- Zengkang Zhai
- State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Resistance and High-Efficiency Production, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Resistance and High-Efficiency Production, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Resistance and High-Efficiency Production, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Resistance and High-Efficiency Production, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Resistance and High-Efficiency Production, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Resistance and High-Efficiency Production, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Resistance and High-Efficiency Production, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Resistance and High-Efficiency Production, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Protection, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, Henan Province, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Resistance and High-Efficiency Production, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Resistance and High-Efficiency Production, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Resistance and High-Efficiency Production, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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Yan Z, Zhang F, Mu C, Ma C, Yao G, Sun Y, Hou J, Leng B, Liu X. The ZmbHLH47-ZmSnRK2.9 Module Promotes Drought Tolerance in Maize. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:4957. [PMID: 38732175 PMCID: PMC11084430 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25094957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2024] [Revised: 04/29/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024] Open
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Drought stress globally poses a significant threat to maize (Zea mays L.) productivity and the underlying molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance remain elusive. In this study, we characterized ZmbHLH47, a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor, as a positive regulator of drought tolerance in maize. ZmbHLH47 expression was notably induced by both drought stress and abscisic acid (ABA). Transgenic plants overexpressing ZmbHLH47 displayed elevated drought tolerance and ABA responsiveness, while the zmbhlh47 mutant exhibited increased drought sensitivity and reduced ABA sensitivity. Mechanistically, it was revealed that ZmbHLH47 could directly bind to the promoter of ZmSnRK2.9 gene, a member of the subgroup III SnRK2 kinases, activating its expression. Furthermore, ZmSnRK2.9-overexpressing plants exhibited enhanced ABA sensitivity and drought tolerance, whereas the zmsnrk2.9 mutant displayed a decreased sensitivity to both. Notably, overexpressing ZmbHLH47 in the zmsnrk2.9 mutant closely resembled the zmsnrk2.9 mutant, indicating the importance of the ZmbHLH47-ZmSnRK2.9 module in ABA response and drought tolerance. These findings provided valuable insights and a potential genetic resource for enhancing the environmental adaptability of maize.
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- Zhenwei Yan
- Maize Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China; (Z.Y.); (F.Z.); (C.M.); (G.Y.)
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- Maize Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China; (Z.Y.); (F.Z.); (C.M.); (G.Y.)
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- Maize Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China; (Z.Y.); (F.Z.); (C.M.); (G.Y.)
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- College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250300, China;
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- Maize Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China; (Z.Y.); (F.Z.); (C.M.); (G.Y.)
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- College of Agronomy, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China;
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- School of Agriculture, Ludong University, Yantai 264001, China;
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- Maize Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China; (Z.Y.); (F.Z.); (C.M.); (G.Y.)
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- Maize Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China; (Z.Y.); (F.Z.); (C.M.); (G.Y.)
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Li R, Wang Y, Li D, Guo Y, Zhou Z, Zhang M, Zhang Y, Würschum T, Liu W. Meta-Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis and Candidate Gene Mining for Drought Tolerance-Associated Traits in Maize ( Zea mays L.). Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:4295. [PMID: 38673880 PMCID: PMC11049847 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25084295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2024] [Revised: 04/10/2024] [Accepted: 04/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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Drought is one of the major abiotic stresses with a severe negative impact on maize production globally. Understanding the genetic architecture of drought tolerance in maize is a crucial step towards the breeding of drought-tolerant varieties and a targeted exploitation of genetic resources. In this study, 511 quantitative trait loci (QTL) related to grain yield components, flowering time, and plant morphology under drought conditions, as well as drought tolerance index were collected from 27 published studies and then projected on the IBM2 2008 Neighbors reference map for meta-analysis. In total, 83 meta-QTL (MQTL) associated with drought tolerance in maize were identified, of which 20 were determined as core MQTL. The average confidence interval of MQTL was strongly reduced compared to that of the previously published QTL. Nearly half of the MQTL were confirmed by co-localized marker-trait associations from genome-wide association studies. Based on the alignment of rice proteins related to drought tolerance, 63 orthologous genes were identified near the maize MQTL. Furthermore, 583 candidate genes were identified within the 20 core MQTL regions and maize-rice homologous genes. Based on KEGG analysis of candidate genes, plant hormone signaling pathways were found to be significantly enriched. The signaling pathways can have direct or indirect effects on drought tolerance and also interact with other pathways. In conclusion, this study provides novel insights into the genetic and molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance in maize towards a more targeted improvement of this important trait in breeding.
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- Ronglan Li
- Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization, The Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Beijing Municipality, National Maize Improvement Center, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
- Sanya Institute of China Agricultural University, Sanya 572025, China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization, The Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Beijing Municipality, National Maize Improvement Center, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization, The Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Beijing Municipality, National Maize Improvement Center, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization, The Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Beijing Municipality, National Maize Improvement Center, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization, The Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Beijing Municipality, National Maize Improvement Center, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization, The Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Beijing Municipality, National Maize Improvement Center, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
- Sanya Institute of China Agricultural University, Sanya 572025, China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization, The Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Beijing Municipality, National Maize Improvement Center, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
- Sanya Institute of China Agricultural University, Sanya 572025, China
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- Institute of Plant Breeding, Seed Science and Population Genetics, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization, The Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Beijing Municipality, National Maize Improvement Center, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
- Sanya Institute of China Agricultural University, Sanya 572025, China
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Wang Z, Zhou J, Zou J, Yang J, Chen W. Characterization of PYL gene family and identification of HaPYL genes response to drought and salt stress in sunflower. PeerJ 2024; 12:e16831. [PMID: 38464756 PMCID: PMC10924776 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.16831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 03/12/2024] Open
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In the context of global climate change, drought and soil salinity are some of the most devastating abiotic stresses affecting agriculture today. PYL proteins are essential components of abscisic acid (ABA) signaling and play critical roles in responding to abiotic stressors, including drought and salt stress. Although PYL genes have been studied in many species, their roles in responding to abiotic stress are still unclear in the sunflower. In this study, 19 HaPYL genes, distributed on 15 of 17 chromosomes, were identified in the sunflower. Fragment duplication is the main cause of the expansion of PYL genes in the sunflower genome. Based on phylogenetic analysis, HaPYL genes were divided into three subfamilies. Members in the same subfamily share similar protein motifs and gene exon-intron structures, except for the second subfamily. Tissue expression patterns suggested that HaPYLs serve different functions when responding to developmental and environmental signals in the sunflower. Exogenous ABA treatment showed that most HaPYLs respond to an increase in the ABA level. Among these HaPYLs, HaPYL2a, HaPYL4d, HaPYL4g, HaPYL8a, HaPYL8b, HaPYL8c, HaPYL9b, and HaPYL9c were up-regulated with PEG6000 treatment and NaCl treatment. This indicates that they may play a role in resisting drought and salt stress in the sunflower by mediating ABA signaling. Our findings provide some clues to further explore the functions of PYL genes in the sunflower, especially with regards to drought and salt stress resistance.
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- Zhaoping Wang
- China West Normal University, College of Life Sciences, Nanchong, Sichuan, China
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- China West Normal University, College of Life Sciences, Nanchong, Sichuan, China
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- China West Normal University, College of Life Sciences, Nanchong, Sichuan, China
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- China West Normal University, College of Life Sciences, Nanchong, Sichuan, China
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- China West Normal University, College of Life Sciences, Nanchong, Sichuan, China
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Ren Z, Fu J, Abou-Elwafa SF, Ku L, Xie X, Liu Z, Shao J, Wen P, Al Aboud NM, Su H, Wang T, Wei L. Analysis of the molecular mechanisms regulating how ZmEREB24 improves drought tolerance in maize (Zea mays) seedlings. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2024; 207:108292. [PMID: 38215602 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2023.108292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Revised: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/14/2024]
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Drought stress is one of the most limiting factors of maize productivity and can lead to a sharp reduction in the total biomass when it occurs at the seedling stage. Improving drought tolerance at the seedling stage is of great importance for maize breeding. The AP2/ERF transcription factor family plays a critical role in plant response to abiotic stresses. Here, we used a preliminary previously-generated ranscriptomic dataset to identify a highly drought-stress-responsive AP2 gene, i.e., ZmEREB24. Compared to the wild type, the overexpression of ZmEREB24 in maize significantly promotes drought tolerance of transgenic plants at the seedling stage. CRISPR/Cas9-based ZmEREB24-knockout mutants showed a drought-sensitive phenotype. RNA-seq analysis and EMSA assay revealed AATGG.CT and GTG.T.GCC motifs as the main binding sites of ZmEREB24 to the promoters of downstream target genes. DAP-seq identified four novel target genes involved in proline and sugar metabolism and hormone signal transduction of ZmEREB24. Our data indicate that ZmEREB24 plays important biological functions in regulating drought tolerance by binding to the promoters of drought stress genes and modulating their expression. The results further suggest a role of ZmEREB24 in regulating drought adaptation in maize, indicating its potential importance for employing molecular breeding in the development of high-yield drought-tolerant maize cultivars.
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- Zhenzhen Ren
- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- Henna Technology Innovation Centre of Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- Henna Technology Innovation Centre of Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- Henna Technology Innovation Centre of Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia
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- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China.
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- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China.
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- Henna Technology Innovation Centre of Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China.
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Zhang C, Wang F, Jiao P, Liu J, Zhang H, Liu S, Guan S, Ma Y. The Overexpression of Zea mays Strigolactone Receptor Gene D14 Enhances Drought Resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana L. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:1327. [PMID: 38279328 PMCID: PMC10816222 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25021327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2023] [Revised: 01/11/2024] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 01/28/2024] Open
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Strigolactones (SLs) represent a recently identified class of plant hormones that are crucial for plant tillering and mycorrhizal symbiosis. The D14 gene, an essential receptor within the SLs signaling pathway, has been well-examined in crops, like rice (Oryza sativa L.) and Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana L.), yet the research on its influence in maize (Zea mays L.) remains scarce. This study successfully clones and establishes Arabidopsis D14 gene overexpression lines (OE lines). When compared with the wild type (WT), the OE lines exhibited significantly longer primary roots during germination. By seven weeks of age, these lines showed reductions in plant height and tillering, alongside slight decreases in rosette and leaf sizes, coupled with early aging symptoms. Fluorescence-based quantitative assays indicated notable hormonal fluctuations in OE lines versus the WT, implying that D14 overexpression disrupts plant hormonal homeostasis. The OE lines, exposed to cold, drought, and sodium chloride stressors during germination, displayed an especially pronounced resistance to drought. The drought resistance of OE lines, as evident from dehydration-rehydration assays, outmatched that of the WT lines. Additionally, under drought conditions, the OE lines accumulated less reactive oxygen species (ROS) as revealed by the assessment of the related physiological and biochemical parameters. Upon confronting the pathogens Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 (Pst DC3000), post-infection, fluorescence quantitative investigations showed a significant boost in the salicylic acid (SA)-related gene expression in OE lines compared to their WT counterparts. Overall, our findings designate the SL receptor D14 as a key upregulator of drought tolerance and a regulator in the biotic stress response, thereby advancing our understanding of the maize SL signaling pathway by elucidating the function of the pivotal D14 gene.
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- Chen Zhang
- College of Life Sciences, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China; (C.Z.); (F.W.)
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- College of Life Sciences, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China; (C.Z.); (F.W.)
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- College of Agronomy, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China; (P.J.); (J.L.); (H.Z.); (S.L.)
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Education, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China
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- College of Agronomy, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China; (P.J.); (J.L.); (H.Z.); (S.L.)
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Education, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China
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- College of Agronomy, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China; (P.J.); (J.L.); (H.Z.); (S.L.)
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Education, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China
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- College of Agronomy, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China; (P.J.); (J.L.); (H.Z.); (S.L.)
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Education, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China
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- College of Agronomy, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China; (P.J.); (J.L.); (H.Z.); (S.L.)
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Education, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China
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- College of Agronomy, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China; (P.J.); (J.L.); (H.Z.); (S.L.)
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Education, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China
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Shang L, Zhou Y, Wen S, Wang K, Li Y, Zhang M, Jian H, Lyu D. Construction of heat stress regulation networks based on Illumina and SMRT sequencing data in potato. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1271084. [PMID: 38023929 PMCID: PMC10651764 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1271084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the most important tuber food crops in the world; however, the cultivated potatoes are susceptible to high temperature, by which potato production is adversely affected. Understanding the coping mechanism of potato to heat stress is essential to secure yield and expand adaptability under environmental conditions with rising temperature. However, the lack of heat-related information has significantly limited the identification and application of core genes. To gain deeper insights into heat tolerance genes, next-generation sequencing and single-molecule real-time sequencing were used to learn the transcriptional response of potato to heat stress and 13,159 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified in this study. All DEGs were grouped into 12 clusters using the K-means clustering algorithm. Gene Ontology enrichment analysis revealed that they were involved in temperature signaling, phytohormone, and protein modification. Among them, there were 950 differentially expressed transcription factors (DETFs). According to the network analysis of DETFs at the sixth hour under heat stress, we found some genes that were previously reported to be associated with photoperiodic tuberization, StCO (CONSTANS), tuber formation, StBEL11 (BEL1-LIKE 11), and earliness in potato, StCDF1 (CYCLING DOF FACTOR 1) responding to temperature. Furthermore, we verified the relative expression levels using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction, and the results were consistent with the inferences from transcriptomes. In addition, there were 22,125 alternative splicing events and 2,048 long non-coding RNAs. The database and network established in this study will extend our understanding of potato response to heat stress. It ultimately provided valuable resources for molecular analysis of heat stress response in potato and cultivation of potato varieties with heat tolerance.
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- Lina Shang
- Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (CHONGQING) Science City, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (CHONGQING) Science City, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land of Southwest University, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Breeding for Tuber and Root Crops, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (CHONGQING) Science City, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (CHONGQING) Science City, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (CHONGQING) Science City, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (CHONGQING) Science City, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (CHONGQING) Science City, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land of Southwest University, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Breeding for Tuber and Root Crops, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (CHONGQING) Science City, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land of Southwest University, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Breeding for Tuber and Root Crops, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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Wu L, Meng F, Su X, Chen N, Peng D, Xing S. Transcriptomic responses to cold stress in Dendrobium huoshanense C.Z. Tang et S.J. Cheng. PHYSIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PLANTS : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2023; 29:1633-1646. [PMID: 38162923 PMCID: PMC10754796 DOI: 10.1007/s12298-023-01385-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Revised: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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Dendrobium huoshanense C.Z. Tang et S.J. Cheng is a perennial epiphytic herb of the family Orchidaceae. The main metabolites of D. huoshanense include polysaccharides and flavonoids. Low temperature is the main environmental factor that limits the growth and development of plants. However, changes that occur at the molecular level in response to low temperatures in D. huoshanense are poorly understood. We performed a transcriptome analysis at two time points of 0 d (control group) and 7 d (cold stress group) under culture of D. huoshanense at 4 °C. A total of 37.63 Gb transcriptomic data were generated using the MGI 2000 platform. These reads were assembled into 170,754 transcripts and 23,724 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were obtained. Pathway analysis indicated that "flavonoid biosynthesis," "anthocyanin biosynthesis," "flavone and flavonol biosynthesis," and "plant hormone signal transduction" might play a vital role in the response of D. huoshanense to cold stress. Several important pathway genes were identified to be altered under cold stress, such as genes encoding polysaccharides, flavonoids, and plant hormone-signaling transduction kinase. In addition, the content of mannose and total flavonoids increased under cold stress. Twelve DEGs related to polysaccharides, flavonoid, and hormone pathways were selected from the transcriptome data for validation with real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR). Our results provide a transcriptome database and candidate genes for further study of the response of D. huoshanense to cold stress. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12298-023-01385-7.
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- Liping Wu
- College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230012 China
- Department of Pharmacy, Tongling Municipal Hospital, Tongling, 244000 China
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- College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230012 China
- Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine Resources Protection and Development, Anhui Academy of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230012 China
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- College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230012 China
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- Institute of Health and Medicine, Joint Research Center for Chinese Herbal Medicine of Anhui, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Bozhou, 236800 China
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- College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230012 China
- Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine Resources Protection and Development, Anhui Academy of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230012 China
- MOE-Anhui Joint Collaborative Innovation Center for Quality Improvement of Anhui Genuine Chinese Medicinal Materials, Hefei, 230038 China
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- College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230012 China
- Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine Resources Protection and Development, Anhui Academy of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230012 China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Research & Development of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230012 China
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Mi W, Liu K, Liang G, Jia Z, Ma X, Ju Z, Liu W. Genome-wide identification and characterization of ABA receptor pyrabactin resistance 1-like protein (PYL) family in oat. PeerJ 2023; 11:e16181. [PMID: 37810776 PMCID: PMC10552766 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.16181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023] Open
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Abscisic acid (ABA) is a phytohormone that plays an important role in plant growth and development. Meanwhile, ABA also plays a key role in the plant response to abiotic stressors such as drought and high salinity. The pyrabactin resistance 1-like (PYR/PYL) protein family of ABA receptors is involved in the initial step of ABA signal transduction. However, no systematic studies of the PYL family in "Avena sativa, a genus Avena in the grass family Poaceae," have been conducted to date. Thus, in this study, we performed a genome-wide screening to identify PYL genes in oat and characterized their responses to drought stress. A total of 12 AsPYL genes distributed on nine chromosomes were identified. The phylogenetic analysis divided these AsPYLs into three subfamilies, based on structural and functional similarities. Gene and motif structure analysis of AsPYLs revealed that members of each subfamily share similar gene and motif structure. Segmental duplication appears to be the driving force for the expansion of PYLs, Furthermore, stress-responsive AsPYLs were detected through RNA-seq analysis. The qRT-PCR analysis of 10 AsPYL genes under drought, salt, and ABA stress revealed that AsPYL genes play an important role in stress response. These data provide a reference for further studies on the oat PYL gene family and its function.
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- Wenbo Mi
- Key Laboratory of Superior Forage Germplasm in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai Academy of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, Qinghai University, Xining, China
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- Key Laboratory of Superior Forage Germplasm in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai Academy of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, Qinghai University, Xining, China
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- Key Laboratory of Superior Forage Germplasm in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai Academy of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, Qinghai University, Xining, China
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- Key Laboratory of Superior Forage Germplasm in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai Academy of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, Qinghai University, Xining, China
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- Key Laboratory of Superior Forage Germplasm in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai Academy of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, Qinghai University, Xining, China
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- Key Laboratory of Superior Forage Germplasm in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai Academy of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, Qinghai University, Xining, China
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- Key Laboratory of Superior Forage Germplasm in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai Academy of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, Qinghai University, Xining, China
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Singh A, Pandey H, Pandey S, Lal D, Chauhan D, Aparna, Antre SH, B S, Kumar A. Drought stress in maize: stress perception to molecular response and strategies for its improvement. Funct Integr Genomics 2023; 23:296. [PMID: 37697159 DOI: 10.1007/s10142-023-01226-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Revised: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 09/13/2023]
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Given the future demand for food crops, increasing crop productivity in drought-prone rainfed areas has become essential. Drought-tolerant varieties are warranted to solve this problem in major crops, with drought tolerance as a high-priority trait for future research. Maize is one such crop affected by drought stress, which limits production, resulting in substantial economic losses. It became a more serious issue due to global climate change. The most drought sensitive among all stages of maize is the reproductive stages and the most important for overall maize production. The exact molecular basis of reproductive drought sensitivity remains unclear due to genes' complex regulation of drought stress. Understanding the molecular biology and signaling of the unexplored area of reproductive drought tolerance will provide an opportunity to develop climate-smart drought-tolerant next-generation maize cultivars. In recent decades, significant progress has been made in maize to understand the drought tolerance mechanism. However, improving maize drought tolerance through breeding is ineffective due to the complex nature and multigenic control of drought traits. With the help of advanced breeding techniques, molecular genetics, and a precision genome editing approach like CRISPR-Cas, candidate genes for drought-tolerant maize can be identified and targeted. This review summarizes the effects of drought stress on each growth stage of maize, potential genes, and transcription factors that determine drought tolerance. In addition, we discussed drought stress sensing, its molecular mechanisms, different approaches to developing drought-resistant maize varieties, and how molecular breeding and genome editing will help with the current unpredictable climate change.
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- Ashutosh Singh
- Centre for Advanced Studies On Climate Change, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar, 848125, India.
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- Department of Agriculture, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, 143005, India.
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- College of Agriculture, Jodhpur Agriculture University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342304, India
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- Banasthali University, Radha Kishanpura, Rajasthan, 304022, India
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- Departments of Agriculture, Jagan Nath University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 303901, India
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- Advanced Centre of Plant Biotechnology, UAS, GKVK, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India
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- Centre for Advanced Studies On Climate Change, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar, 848125, India
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, MTTC & VTC, Selesih, CAU, Imphal, 795001, India
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Li C, Li Y, Song G, Yang D, Xia Z, Sun C, Zhao Y, Hou M, Zhang M, Qi Z, Wang B, Wang H. Gene expression and expression quantitative trait loci analyses uncover natural variations underlying the improvement of important agronomic traits during modern maize breeding. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2023; 115:772-787. [PMID: 37186341 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2022] [Revised: 04/15/2023] [Accepted: 04/20/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Maize (Zea mays L.) is a major staple crop worldwide, and during modern maize breeding, cultivars with increased tolerance to high-density planting and higher yield per plant have contributed significantly to the increased yield per unit land area. Systematically identifying key agronomic traits and their associated genomic changes during modern maize breeding remains a significant challenge because of the complexity of genetic regulation and the interactions of the various agronomic traits, with most of them being controlled by numerous small-effect quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Here, we performed phenotypic and gene expression analyses for a set of 137 elite inbred lines of maize from different breeding eras in China. We found four yield-related traits are significantly improved during modern maize breeding. Through gene-clustering analyses, we identified four groups of expressed genes with distinct trends of expression pattern change across the historical breeding eras. In combination with weighted gene co-expression network analysis, we identified several candidate genes regulating various plant architecture- and yield-related agronomic traits, such as ZmARF16, ZmARF34, ZmTCP40, ZmPIN7, ZmPYL10, ZmJMJ10, ZmARF1, ZmSWEET15b, ZmGLN6 and Zm00001d019150. Further, by combining expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) analyses, correlation coefficient analyses and population genetics, we identified a set of candidate genes that might have been under selection and contributed to the genetic improvement of various agronomic traits during modern maize breeding, including a number of known key regulators of plant architecture, flowering time and yield-related traits, such as ZmPIF3.3, ZAG1, ZFL2 and ZmBES1. Lastly, we validated the functional variations in GL15, ZmPHYB2 and ZmPYL10 that influence kernel row number, flowering time, plant height and ear height, respectively. Our results demonstrates the effectiveness of our combined approaches for uncovering key candidate regulatory genes and functional variation underlying the improvement of important agronomic traits during modern maize breeding, and provide a valuable genetic resource for the molecular breeding of maize cultivars with tolerance for high-density planting.
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- Changyu Li
- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
- Key Laboratory of Herbage and Endemic Crop Biology, Ministry of Education, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010070, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- Maize Research Institute, Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Gongzhuling, 136100, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- Key Laboratory of Herbage and Endemic Crop Biology, Ministry of Education, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010070, China
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
- HainanYazhou Bay Seed Lab, Sanya, 572025, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
- Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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An Y, Mi X, Xia X, Qiao D, Yu S, Zheng H, Jing T, Zhang F. Genome-wide identification of the PYL gene family of tea plants (Camellia sinensis) revealed its expression profiles under different stress and tissues. BMC Genomics 2023; 24:362. [PMID: 37380940 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-023-09464-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 06/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND PYL (Pyrabactin resistance 1-like) protein is a receptor of abscisic acid (ABA), which plays an important role in ABA signaling and influences plant growth and development and stress response. However, studies on PYL gene family in tea plants have not been reported. RESULTS In this study, we identified 20 PYL genes from the reference genome of tea plant ('Shuchazao'). Phylogeny analysis indicated that PYLs from tea and other plant species were clustered into seven groups. The promoter region of PYL genes contains a large number of cis-elements related to hormones and stresses. A large number of PYL genes responding to stress were found by analyzing the expression levels of abiotic stress and biotic stress transcriptome data. For example, CSS0047272.1 were up-regulated by drought stress, and CSS0027597.1 could respond to both anthracnose disease and geometrid feeding treatments. In addition, 10 PYL genes related to growth and development were verified by RT-qPCR and their tissue expression characteristics were revealed. CONCLUSIONS Our results provided a comprehensive characteristic of the PYL gene family in tea plants and provided an important clue for further exploring its functions in the growth and development, and resistance to stress of tea plants.
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- Yanlin An
- Department of Food Science and Engineering, Moutai Institute, Luban Street, Renhuai, 564502, Guizhou, P.R. China
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- Tea Research Institute, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1 Jinxin Community, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Tea Research Institute, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1 Jinxin Community, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Food Science and Engineering, Moutai Institute, Luban Street, Renhuai, 564502, Guizhou, P.R. China
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- Department of Food Science and Engineering, Moutai Institute, Luban Street, Renhuai, 564502, Guizhou, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 Changjiang West Road, Hefei, China.
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- Department of Food Science and Engineering, Moutai Institute, Luban Street, Renhuai, 564502, Guizhou, P.R. China.
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Wang Y, Zhang G, Zhou H, Yin S, Li Y, Ma C, Chen P, Sun L, Hao F. GhPYL9-5D and GhPYR1-3 A positively regulate Arabidopsis and cotton responses to ABA, drought, high salinity and osmotic stress. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2023; 23:310. [PMID: 37296391 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-023-04330-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2022] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Abscisic acid (ABA) receptor pyrabactin resistance 1/PYR1-like/regulatory components of ABA receptor proteins (PYR/PYL/RCARs) have been demonstrated to play pivotal roles in ABA signaling and in response to diverse environmental stimuli including drought, salinity and osmotic stress in Arabidopsis. However, whether and how GhPYL9-5D and GhPYR1-3A, the homologues of Arabidopsis PYL9 and PYR1 in cotton, function in responding to ABA and abiotic stresses are still unclear. RESULTS GhPYL9-5D and GhPYR1-3A were targeted to the cytoplasm and nucleus. Overexpression of GhPYL9-5D and GhPYR1-3A in Arabidopsis wild type and sextuple mutant pyr1pyl1pyl2pyl4pyl5pyl8 plants resulted in ABA hypersensitivity in terms of seed germination, root growth and stomatal closure, as well as seedling tolerance to water deficit, salt and osmotic stress. Moreover, the VIGS (Virus-induced gene silencing) cotton plants, in which GhPYL9-5D or GhPYR1-3A were knocked down, showed clearly reduced tolerance to polyethylene glycol 6000 (PEG)-induced drought, salinity and osmotic stresses compared with the controls. Additionally, transcriptomic data revealed that GhPYL9-5D was highly expressed in the root, and GhPYR1-3A was strongly expressed in the fiber and stem. GhPYL9-5D, GhPYR1-3A and their homologs in cotton were highly expressed after treatment with PEG or NaCl, and the two genes were co-expressed with redox signaling components, transcription factors and auxin signal components. These results suggest that GhPYL9-5D and GhPYR1-3A may serve important roles through interplaying with hormone and other signaling components in cotton adaptation to salt or osmotic stress. CONCLUSIONS GhPYL9-5D and GhPYR1-3A positively regulate ABA-mediated seed germination, primary root growth and stomatal closure, as well as tolerance to drought, salt and osmotic stresses likely through affecting the expression of multiple downstream stress-associated genes in Arabidopsis and cotton.
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- Yibin Wang
- National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, School of Life Sciences, College of Agriculture, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, School of Life Sciences, College of Agriculture, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, School of Life Sciences, College of Agriculture, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, School of Life Sciences, College of Agriculture, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, School of Life Sciences, College of Agriculture, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, School of Life Sciences, College of Agriculture, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, School of Life Sciences, College of Agriculture, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, School of Life Sciences, College of Agriculture, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-breeding and Integrated Utilization, School of Life Sciences, College of Agriculture, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China.
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Lv J, Xu Y, Dan X, Yang Y, Mao C, Ma X, Zhu J, Sun M, Jin Y, Huang L. Genomic survey of MYB gene family in six pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) varieties and their response to abiotic stresses. Genetica 2023:10.1007/s10709-023-00188-8. [PMID: 37266766 DOI: 10.1007/s10709-023-00188-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In addition to their roles in developmental and metabolic processes, MYB transcription factors play crucial roles in plant defense mechanisms and stress responses. A comprehensive analysis of six pearl millet genomes revealed the presence of 1133 MYB genes, which can be classified into four phylogenetically distinct subgroups. The duplication pattern of MYB genes across the pearl millet genomes demonstrates their conserved and similar evolutionary history. Overall, MYB genes were observed to be involved in drought and heat stress responses, with stronger differential expressed observed in root tissues. Multiple analyses indicated that MYB genes mediate abiotic stress responses by modulating abscisic acid-related pathways, circadian rhythms, and histone modification processes. A substantial number of duplicated genes were determined to exhibit differential expression under abiotic stress. The consistent positive expression trend observed in duplicated gene pairs, such as PMA5G04432.1 and PMA2G00728.1, across various abiotic stresses suggests that duplicated MYB genes plays a key role in the evolution of adaptive responses of pearl millet to abiotic stresses.
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- Jinhang Lv
- Department of Grassland Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Grassland Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, China
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- Department of The College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Grassland Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Grassland Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Grassland Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Grassland Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Grassland Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Grassland Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Grassland Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, China.
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Adel S, Carels N. Plant Tolerance to Drought Stress with Emphasis on Wheat. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:plants12112170. [PMID: 37299149 DOI: 10.3390/plants12112170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Revised: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 03/29/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Environmental stresses, such as drought, have negative effects on crop yield. Drought is a stress whose impact tends to increase in some critical regions. However, the worldwide population is continuously increasing and climate change may affect its food supply in the upcoming years. Therefore, there is an ongoing effort to understand the molecular processes that may contribute to improving drought tolerance of strategic crops. These investigations should contribute to delivering drought-tolerant cultivars by selective breeding. For this reason, it is worthwhile to review regularly the literature concerning the molecular mechanisms and technologies that could facilitate gene pyramiding for drought tolerance. This review summarizes achievements obtained using QTL mapping, genomics, synteny, epigenetics, and transgenics for the selective breeding of drought-tolerant wheat cultivars. Synthetic apomixis combined with the msh1 mutation opens the way to induce and stabilize epigenomes in crops, which offers the potential of accelerating selective breeding for drought tolerance in arid and semi-arid regions.
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- Sarah Adel
- Genetic Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11241, Egypt
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- Laboratory of Biological System Modeling, Center of Technological Development for Health (CDTS), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro 21040-361, Brazil
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Liu L, Zhang Y, Tang C, Shen Q, Fu J, Wang Q. Maize Transcription Factor ZmHsf28 Positively Regulates Plant Drought Tolerance. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24098079. [PMID: 37175787 PMCID: PMC10179534 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24098079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2023] [Revised: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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Identification of central genes governing plant drought tolerance is fundamental to molecular breeding and crop improvement. Here, maize transcription factor ZmHsf28 is identified as a positive regulator of plant drought responses. ZmHsf28 exhibited inducible gene expression in response to drought and other abiotic stresses. Overexpression of ZmHsf28 diminished drought effects in Arabidopsis and maize. Gene silencing of ZmHsf28 via the technology of virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) impaired maize drought tolerance. Overexpression of ZmHsf28 increased jasmonate (JA) and abscisic acid (ABA) production in transgenic maize and Arabidopsis by more than two times compared to wild-type plants under drought conditions, while it decreased reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation and elevated stomatal sensitivity significantly. Transcriptomic analysis revealed extensive gene regulation by ZmHsf28 with upregulation of JA and ABA biosynthesis genes, ROS scavenging genes, and other drought related genes. ABA treatment promoted ZmHsf28 regulation of downstream target genes. Specifically, electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) and yeast one-hybrid (Y1H) assay indicated that ZmHsf28 directly bound to the target gene promoters to regulate their gene expression. Taken together, our work provided new and solid evidence that ZmHsf28 improves drought tolerance both in the monocot maize and the dicot Arabidopsis through the implication of JA and ABA signaling and other signaling pathways, shedding light on molecular breeding for drought tolerance in maize and other crops.
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- Lijun Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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Zhang Y, Zhao Y, Hou X, Ni C, Han L, Du P, Xiao K. Wheat ABA Receptor TaPYL5 Constitutes a Signaling Module with Its Downstream Partners TaPP2C53/TaSnRK2.1/TaABI1 to Modulate Plant Drought Response. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24097969. [PMID: 37175676 PMCID: PMC10178726 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24097969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Revised: 04/23/2023] [Accepted: 04/26/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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Abscisic acid receptors (ABR) play crucial roles in transducing the ABA signaling initiated by osmotic stresses, which has a significant impact on plant acclimation to drought by modulating stress-related defensive physiological processes. We characterized TaPYL5, a member of the ABR family in wheat (Triticum aestivum), as a mediator of drought stress adaptation in plants. The signals derived from the fusion of TaPYL5-GFP suggest that the TaPYL5 protein was directed to various subcellular locations, namely stomata, plasma membrane, and nucleus. Drought stress significantly upregulated the TaPYL5 transcripts in roots and leaves. The biological roles of ABA and drought responsive cis-elements, specifically ABRE and recognition sites MYB, in mediating gene transcription under drought conditions were confirmed by histochemical GUS staining analysis for plants harbouring a truncated TaPYL5 promoter. Yeast two-hybrid and BiFC assays indicated that TaPYL5 interacted with TaPP2C53, a clade A member of phosphatase (PP2C), and the latter with TaSnRK2.1, a kinase member of the SnRK2 family, implying the formation of an ABA core signaling module TaPYL5/TaPP2C53/TaSnRK2.1. TaABI1, an ABA responsive transcription factor, proved to be a component of the ABA signaling pathway, as evidenced by its interaction with TaSnRK2.1. Transgene analysis of TaPYL5 and its module partners, as well as TaABI1, revealed that they have an effect on plant drought responses. TaPYL5 and TaSnRK2.1 positively regulated plant drought acclimation, whereas TaPP2C53 and TaABI1 negatively regulated it. This coincided with the osmotic stress-related physiology shown in their transgenic lines, such as stomata movement, osmolytes biosynthesis, and antioxidant enzyme function. TaPYL5 significantly altered the transcription of numerous genes involved in biological processes related to drought defense. Our findings suggest that TaPYL5 is one of the most important regulators in plant drought tolerance and a valuable target for engineering drought-tolerant cultivars in wheat.
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- Yanyang Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
- College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
- College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
- College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
- College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
- College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
- College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
- College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
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Chen S, Li K, Tan B, Wei Y, Li H. Identification of Pyrabactin resistance 1-like (PYL) genes in Brachypodium distachyon and functional characterization of BdPYL5. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 283:153949. [PMID: 36842335 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2023.153949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Revised: 01/28/2023] [Accepted: 02/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Abscisic acid (ABA) is an endogenous phytohormone that plays an important role in regulating plant growth, development, and stress response. Pyrabactin resistance 1-like (PYR/PYL) proteins are ABA receptors and core components of ABA signalling in plants. This study identified nine PYL genes in the Brachypodium distachyon genome and they distribute on three chromosomes. Phylogenetical BdPYLs were classified into three clades. 81 protein-protein interactions between 9 BdPYLs and 9 BdPP2C proteins were predicted and 66 pairs were verified by yeast two-hybrid assay previously. Relatively, BdPYL genes are expressed in leaves at high level, and ABA and drought regulate their expression. A homologue of Arabidopsis PYL9, BdPYL5 was selected to overexpress in Arabidopsis to characterize its function. In general, overexpression of BdPYL5 enhanced ABA sensitivity and drought tolerance, implying its conserved function. Our study lays the foundation for further functional elucidation of BdPYL genes.
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- Shoukun Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712000, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712000, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712000, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712000, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712000, China.
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Guo Y, Shi Y, Wang Y, Liu F, Li Z, Qi J, Wang Y, Zhang J, Yang S, Wang Y, Gong Z. The clade F PP2C phosphatase ZmPP84 negatively regulates drought tolerance by repressing stomatal closure in maize. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023; 237:1728-1744. [PMID: 36444538 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Drought is a major environmental stress that threatens crop production. Therefore, identification of genes involved in drought stress response is of vital importance to decipher the molecular mechanism of stress signal transduction and breed drought tolerance crops, especially for maize. Clade A PP2C phosphatases are core abscisic acid (ABA) signaling components, regulating ABA signal transduction and drought response. However, the roles of other clade PP2Cs in drought resistance remain largely unknown. Here, we discovered a clade F PP2C, ZmPP84, that negatively regulates drought tolerance by screening a transgenic overexpression maize library. Quantitative RT-PCR indicates that the transcription of ZmPP84 is suppressed by drought stress. We identified that ZmMEK1, a member of the MAPKK family, interacts with ZmPP84 by immunoprecipitation and mass spectrometry analysis. Additionally, we found that ZmPP84 can dephosphorylate ZmMEK1 and repress its kinase activity on the downstream substrate kinase ZmSIMK1, while ZmSIMK1 is able to phosphorylate S-type anion channel ZmSLAC1 at S146 and T520 in vitro. Mutations of S146 and T520 to phosphomimetic aspartate could activate ZmSLAC1 currents in Xenopus oocytes. Taken together, our study suggests that ZmPP84 is a negative regulator of drought stress response that inhibits stomatal closure through dephosphorylating ZmMEK1, thereby repressing ZmMEK1-ZmSIMK1 signaling pathway.
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- Yazhen Guo
- 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
- Center for Crop Functional Genomics and Molecular Breeding, 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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- College of Resources and Environmental 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
- Institute of Life Science and Green Development, School of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China
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Tian T, Wang S, Yang S, Yang Z, Liu S, Wang Y, Gao H, Zhang S, Yang X, Jiang C, Qin F. Genome assembly and genetic dissection of a prominent drought-resistant maize germplasm. Nat Genet 2023; 55:496-506. [PMID: 36806841 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-023-01297-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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In the context of climate change, drought is one of the most limiting factors that influence crop production. Maize, as a major crop, is highly vulnerable to water deficit, which causes significant yield loss. Thus, identification and utilization of drought-resistant germplasm are crucial for the genetic improvement of the trait. Here we report on a high-quality genome assembly of a prominent drought-resistant genotype, CIMBL55. Genomic and genetic variation analyses revealed that 65 favorable alleles of 108 previously identified drought-resistant candidate genes were found in CIMBL55, which may constitute the genetic basis for its excellent drought resistance. Notably, ZmRtn16, encoding a reticulon-like protein, was found to contribute to drought resistance by facilitating the vacuole H+-ATPase activity, which highlights the role of vacuole proton pumps in maize drought resistance. The assembled CIMBL55 genome provided a basis for genetic dissection and improvement of plant drought resistance, in support of global food security.
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- Tian Tian
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- School of Life Sciences and Medicine, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, China
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- Center for Crop Functional Genomics and Molecular Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Center for Crop Functional Genomics and Molecular Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- National Maize Improvement Center of China, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Center for Crop Functional Genomics and Molecular Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
- Center for Crop Functional Genomics and Molecular Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
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Transcription Factor ZmNAC20 Improves Drought Resistance by Promoting Stomatal Closure and Activating Expression of Stress-Responsive Genes in Maize. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24054712. [PMID: 36902144 PMCID: PMC10003513 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24054712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2023] [Revised: 02/26/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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Drought is a major environmental threat that limits crop growth, development, and productivity worldwide. Improving drought resistance with genetic engineering methods is necessary to tackle global climate change. It is well known that NAC (NAM, ATAF and CUC) transcription factors play a critical role in coping with drought stress in plants. In this study, we identified an NAC transcription factor ZmNAC20, which regulates drought stress response in maize. ZmNAC20 expression was rapidly upregulated by drought and abscisic acid (ABA). Under drought conditions, the ZmNAC20-overexpressing plants had higher relative water content and survival rate than the wild-type maize inbred B104, suggesting that overexpression of ZmNAC20 improved drought resistance in maize. The detached leaves of ZmNAC20-overexpressing plants lost less water than those of wild-type B104 after dehydration. Overexpression of ZmNAC20 promoted stomatal closure in response to ABA. ZmNAC20 was localized in the nucleus and regulated the expression of many genes involved in drought stress response using RNA-Seq analysis. The study indicated that ZmNAC20 improved drought resistance by promoting stomatal closure and activating the expression of stress-responsible genes in maize. Our findings provide a valuable gene and new clues on improving crop drought resistance.
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Friero I, Larriba E, Martínez-Melgarejo PA, Justamante MS, Alarcón MV, Albacete A, Salguero J, Pérez-Pérez JM. Transcriptomic and hormonal analysis of the roots of maize seedlings grown hydroponically at low temperature. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2023; 326:111525. [PMID: 36328179 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2022.111525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2022] [Revised: 10/23/2022] [Accepted: 10/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Prolonged cold stress has a strong effect on plant growth and development, especially in subtropical crops such as maize. Soil temperature limits primary root elongation, mainly during early seedling establishment. However, little is known about how moderate temperature fluctuations affect root growth at the molecular and physiological levels. We have studied root tips of young maize seedlings grown hydroponically at 30 ºC and after a short period (up to 24 h) of moderate cooling (20 ºC). We found that both cell division and cell elongation in the root apical meristem are affected by temperature. Time-course analyses of hormonal and transcriptomic profiles were achieved after temperature reduction from 30 ºC to 20 ºC. Our results highlighted a complex regulation of endogenous pathways leading to adaptive root responses to moderate cooling conditions.
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- Iván Friero
- Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Ecología y Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Extremadura, 06006 Badajoz, Spain.
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- Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández, 03202 Elche, Spain.
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- Área de Agronomía de Cultivos Leñosos y Hortícolas, Instituto de Investigaciones Agrarias "La Orden-Valdesequera" (CICYTEX), Junta de Extremadura, 06187 Badajoz, Spain.
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- Departamento de Nutrición Vegetal, CEBAS-CSIC, 30100 Murcia, Spain.
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Ecología y Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Extremadura, 06006 Badajoz, Spain.
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MdPP2C24/37, Protein Phosphatase Type 2Cs from Apple, Interact with MdPYL2/12 to Negatively Regulate ABA Signaling in Transgenic Arabidopsis. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232214375. [PMID: 36430851 PMCID: PMC9696740 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232214375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2022] [Revised: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) plays an important role in the ability of plants to cope with drought stress. As core members of the ABA signaling pathway, protein phosphatase type 2Cs (PP2Cs) have been reported in many species. However, the functions of MdPP2Cs in apple (Malus domestica) are unclear. In this study, we identified two PP2C-encoding genes, MdPP2C24/37, with conserved PP2C catalytic domains, using sequence alignment. The nucleus-located MdPP2C24/37 genes were induced by ABA or mannitol in apple. Genetic analysis revealed that overexpression of MdPP2C24/37 in Arabidopsis thaliana led to plant insensitivity to ABA or mannitol treatment, in terms of inhibiting seed germination and overall seedling establishment. The expression of stress marker genes was upregulated in MdPP2C24/37 transgenic lines. At the same time, MdPP2C24/37 transgenic lines displayed inhibited ABA-mediated stomatal closure, which led to higher water loss rates. Moreover, when exposed to drought stress, chlorophyll levels decreased and MDA and H2O2 levels accumulated in the MdPP2C24/37 transgenic lines. Further, MdPP2C24/37 interacted with MdPYL2/12 in vitro and vivo. The results indicate that MdPP2C24/37 act as negative regulators in response to ABA-mediated drought resistance.
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Liu S, Lu C, Jiang G, Zhou R, Chang Y, Wang S, Wang D, Niu J, Wang Z. Comprehensive functional analysis of the PYL-PP2C-SnRK2s family in Bletilla striata reveals that BsPP2C22 and BsPP2C38 interact with BsPYLs and BsSnRK2s in response to multiple abiotic stresses. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:963069. [PMID: 36035678 PMCID: PMC9404246 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.963069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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As the core regulation network for the abscisic acid (ABA) signaling pathway, the PYL-PP2C-SnRK2s family commonly exists in many species. For this study, a total of 9 BsPYLs, 66 BsPP2Cs, and 7 BsSnRK2s genes were identified based on the genomic databases of Bletilla striata, which were classified into 3, 10, and 3 subgroups, respectively. Basic bioinformatics analysis completed, including the physicochemical properties of proteins, gene structures, protein motifs and conserved domains. Multiple cis-acting elements related to stress responses and plant growth were found in promoter regions. Further, 73 genes were localized on 16 pseudochromosomes and 29 pairs of paralogous genes were found via intraspecific collinearity analysis. Furthermore, tissue-specific expression was found in different tissues and germination stages. There were two BsPYLs, 10 BsPP2Cs, and four BsSnRK2 genes that exhibited a difference in response to multiple abiotic stresses. Moreover, subcellular localization analysis revealed six important proteins BsPP2C22, BsPP2C38, BsPP2C64, BsPYL2, BsPYL8, and BsSnRK2.4 which were localized in the nucleus and plasma membrane. Finally, yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) and bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assays suggested that BsPP2C22 and BsPP2C38 could interact with multiple BsPYLs and BsSnRK2s proteins. This study systematically reported on the identification and characterization of the PYL-PP2C-SnRK2s family in B. striata, which provided a conceptual basis for deep insights into the functionality of ABA core signal pathways in Orchidaceae.
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Mao H, Jian C, Cheng X, Chen B, Mei F, Li F, Zhang Y, Li S, Du L, Li T, Hao C, Wang X, Zhang X, Kang Z. The wheat ABA receptor gene TaPYL1-1B contributes to drought tolerance and grain yield by increasing water-use efficiency. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2022; 20:846-861. [PMID: 34890091 PMCID: PMC9055818 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2020] [Revised: 11/28/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The role of abscisic acid (ABA) receptors, PYR1/PYL/RCAR (PYLs), is well established in ABA signalling and plant drought response, but limited research has explored the regulation of wheat PYLs in this process, especially the effects of their allelic variations on drought tolerance or grain yield. Here, we found that the overexpression of a TaABFs-regulated PYL gene, TaPYL1-1B, exhibited higher ABA sensitivity, photosynthetic capacity and water-use efficiency (WUE), all contributed to higher drought tolerance than that of wild-type plants. This heightened water-saving mechanism further increased grain yield and protected productivity during water deficit. Candidate gene association analysis revealed that a favourable allele TaPYL1-1BIn-442 , carrying an MYB recognition site insertion in the promoter, is targeted by TaMYB70 and confers enhanced expression of TaPYL1-1B in drought-tolerant genotypes. More importantly, an increase in frequency of the TaPYL1-1BIn-442 allele over decades among modern Chinese cultivars and its association with high thousand-kernel weight together demonstrated that it was artificially selected during wheat improvement efforts. Taken together, our findings illuminate the role of TaPYL1-1B plays in coordinating drought tolerance and grain yield. In particular, the allelic variant TaPYL1-1BIn-442 substantially contributes to enhanced drought tolerance while maintaining high yield, and thus represents a valuable genetic target for engineering drought-tolerant wheat germplasm.
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- Hude Mao
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant ProtectionNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingShaanxi712100China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm EnhancementMinistry of AgricultureInstitute of Crop ScienceChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing100081China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant ProtectionNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingShaanxi712100China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant ProtectionNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingShaanxi712100China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant ProtectionNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingShaanxi712100China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant ProtectionNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingShaanxi712100China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant ProtectionNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingShaanxi712100China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant ProtectionNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingShaanxi712100China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life ScienceNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingShaanxi712100China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm EnhancementMinistry of AgricultureInstitute of Crop ScienceChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing100081China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm EnhancementMinistry of AgricultureInstitute of Crop ScienceChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing100081China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life ScienceNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingShaanxi712100China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm EnhancementMinistry of AgricultureInstitute of Crop ScienceChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing100081China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant ProtectionNorthwest A&F UniversityYanglingShaanxi712100China
- Yangling Seed Industry Innovation CenterYanglingShaanxi712100China
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Drincovich MF, Maurino VG. Adjustments of carbon allocation and stomatal dynamics by target localized strategies to increase crop productivity under changing climates. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 272:153685. [PMID: 35364488 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2022.153685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2021] [Revised: 03/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Increasing crop productivity to ensure food security for future generations is one of the greatest challenges in current plant research. This challenge is even greater due to global climate changes, as enhancing crop yields must occur against the backdrop of increasingly changing environments, particularly rising temperatures and water constraints. Global crop yield growth depends on an improved dynamic balance between carbon and water usage. Here we discuss different approaches that highlight the role of vascular tissue and guard cells in attempting to mitigate the carbon-water trade-off. We argue that crop engineering in the future will require the incorporation of a combination of improved traits. Since targeted gene modifications generally produce fewer undesirable pleiotropic effects than constitutive modifications, we envision that modifications of specific cell types, such as phloem companion cells and guard cells, represent an effective approach for adding beneficial gene modifications in the same plant. This approach will enable trait stacking to design future crops with both high yield and resilience to various climate change stresses.
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- Maria F Drincovich
- Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos (CEFOBI-CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina.
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- Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
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PYR/PYL/RCAR Receptors Play a Vital Role in the Abscisic-Acid-Dependent Responses of Plants to External or Internal Stimuli. Cells 2022; 11:cells11081352. [PMID: 35456031 PMCID: PMC9028234 DOI: 10.3390/cells11081352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2022] [Revised: 04/11/2022] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Abscisic acid (ABA) is a phytohormone that plays a key role in regulating several developmental processes as well as in response to stressful conditions such as drought. Activation of the ABA signaling cascade allows the induction of an appropriate physiological response. The basic components of the ABA signaling pathway have been recognized and characterized in recent years. Pyrabactin resistance, pyrabactin resistance-like, and the regulatory component of ABA receptors (PYR/PYL/RCAR) are the major components responsible for the regulation of the ABA signaling pathway. Here, we review recent findings concerning the PYR/PYL/RCAR receptor structure, function, and interaction with other components of the ABA signaling pathway as well as the termination mechanism of ABA signals in plant cells. Since ABA is one of the basic elements related to abiotic stress, which is increasingly common in the era of climate changes, understanding the perception and transduction of the signal related to this phytohormone is of paramount importance in further increasing crop tolerance to various stress factors.
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Zhang Z, Luo S, Liu Z, Wan Z, Gao X, Qiao Y, Yu J, Zhang G. Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the cucumber PYL gene family. PeerJ 2022; 10:e12786. [PMID: 35047239 PMCID: PMC8759363 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/21/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Abscisic acid (ABA) is a very important hormone in plants. It regulates growth and development of plants and plays an important role in biotic and abiotic stresses. The Pyrabactin resistance 1-like (PYR/PYL) proteins play a central role in ABA signal transduction pathways. The working system of PYL genes in cucumber, an important economical vegetable (Cucumis sativus L.), has not been fully studied yet. Through bioinformatics, a total of 14 individual PYL genes were identified in Chinese long '9930' cucumber. Fourteen PYL genes were distributed on six chromosomes of cucumber, and their encoded proteins predicted to be distributed in cytoplasm and nucleus. Based on the phylogenetic analysis, the PYL genes of cucumber, Arabidopsis, rice, apple, Brachypodium distachyon and soybeancould be classified into three groups. Genetic structures and conserved domains analysis revealed that CsPYL genes in the same group have similar exons and conserved domains. By predicting cis-elements in the promoters, we found that all CsPYL members contained hormone and stress-related elements. Additionally, the expression patterns of CsPYL genes were specific in tissues. Finally, we further examined the expression of 14 CsPYL genes under ABA, PEG, salt stress. The qRT-PCR results showed that most PYL gene expression levels were up-regulated. Furthermore, with different treatments about 3h, the relative expression of PYL8 was up-regulated and more than 20 times higher than 0h. It indicated that this gene may play an important role in abiotic stress.
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- Zeyu Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China,College of Horticulture, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China,College of Horticulture, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China,College of Horticulture, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China,College of Horticulture, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China,College of Horticulture, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China,College of Horticulture, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China,College of Horticulture, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China,College of Horticulture, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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Zhang H, Sun X, Dai M. Improving crop drought resistance with plant growth regulators and rhizobacteria: Mechanisms, applications, and perspectives. PLANT COMMUNICATIONS 2022; 3:100228. [PMID: 35059626 PMCID: PMC8760038 DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2021.100228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2021] [Revised: 06/20/2021] [Accepted: 08/02/2021] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Drought is one of the main abiotic stresses that cause crop yield loss. Improving crop yield under drought stress is a major goal of crop breeding, as it is critical to food security. The mechanism of plant drought resistance has been well studied, and diverse drought resistance genes have been identified in recent years, but transferring this knowledge from the laboratory to field production remains a significant challenge. Recently, some new strategies have become research frontiers owing to their advantages of low cost, convenience, strong field operability, and/or environmental friendliness. Exogenous plant growth regulator (PGR) treatment and microbe-based plant biotechnology have been used to effectively improve crop drought tolerance and preserve yield under drought stress. However, our understanding of the mechanisms by which PGRs regulate plant drought resistance and of plant-microbiome interactions under drought is still incomplete. In this review, we summarize these two strategies reported in recent studies, focusing on the mechanisms by which these exogenous treatments regulate crop drought resistance. Finally, future challenges and directions in crop drought resistance breeding are discussed.
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- Hui Zhang
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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Liang Y, Ma F, Li B, Guo C, Hu T, Zhang M, Liang Y, Zhu J, Zhan X. A bHLH transcription factor, SlbHLH96, promotes drought tolerance in tomato. HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2022; 9:uhac198. [PMID: 36467272 PMCID: PMC9714257 DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhac198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 09/01/2022] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Drought stress caused by water deficit reduces plant productivity in many regions of the world. In plants, basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors regulate a wide range of cellular activities related to growth, development and stress response; however, the role of tomato SlbHLHs in drought stress responses remains elusive. Here, we used reverse genetics approaches to reveal the function of SlbHLH96, which is induced by drought and abscisic acid (ABA) treatment. We found that SlbHLH96 functions as a positive regulator of drought tolerance in tomato. Overexpression of SlbHLH96 in tomato improves drought tolerance by stimulating the expression of genes encoding antioxidants, ABA signaling molecules and stress-related proteins. In contrast, silencing of SlbHLH96 in tomato reduces drought tolerance. SlbHLH96 physically interacts with an ethylene-responsive factor, SlERF4, and silencing of SlERF4 in tomato also decreases drought tolerance. Furthermore, SlbHLH96 can repress the expression of the ABA catabolic gene, SlCYP707A2, through direct binding to its promoter. Our results uncover a novel mechanism of SlbHLH96-mediated drought tolerance in tomato plants, which can be exploited for breeding drought-resilient crops.
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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Berrío RT, Nelissen H, Inzé D, Dubois M. Increasing yield on dry fields: molecular pathways with growing potential. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2022; 109:323-341. [PMID: 34695266 PMCID: PMC7612350 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Revised: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 10/19/2021] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Drought stress constitutes one of the major constraints to agriculture all over the world, and its devastating effect is only expected to increase in the following years due to climate change. Concurrently, the increasing food demand in a steadily growing population requires a proportional increase in yield and crop production. In the past, research aimed to increase plant resilience to severe drought stress. However, this often resulted in stunted growth and reduced yield under favorable conditions or moderate drought. Nowadays, drought tolerance research aims to maintain plant growth and yield under drought conditions. Overall, recently deployed strategies to engineer drought tolerance in the lab can be classified into a 'growth-centered' strategy, which focuses on keeping growth unaffected by the drought stress, and a 'drought resilience without growth penalty' strategy, in which the main aim is still to boost drought resilience, while limiting the side effects on plant growth. In this review, we put the scope on these two strategies and some molecular players that were successfully engineered to generate drought-tolerant plants: abscisic acid, brassinosteroids, cytokinins, ethylene, ROS scavenging genes, strigolactones, and aquaporins. We discuss how these pathways participate in growth and stress response regulation under drought. Finally, we present an overview of the current insights and future perspectives in the development of new strategies to improve drought tolerance in the field.
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- Rubén Tenorio Berrío
- Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent, Belgium
- VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
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- Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent, Belgium
- VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
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- Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent, Belgium
- VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
- Corresponding Author: Dirk Inzé VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology Technologiepark 71 B-9052 Ghent (Belgium) Tel.: +32 9 3313800; Fax: +32 9 3313809;
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- Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent, Belgium
- VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
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Sheoran S, Kaur Y, Kumar S, Shukla S, Rakshit S, Kumar R. Recent Advances for Drought Stress Tolerance in Maize ( Zea mays L.): Present Status and Future Prospects. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:872566. [PMID: 35707615 PMCID: PMC9189405 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.872566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2022] [Accepted: 04/26/2022] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Drought stress has severely hampered maize production, affecting the livelihood and economics of millions of people worldwide. In the future, as a result of climate change, unpredictable weather events will become more frequent hence the implementation of adaptive strategies will be inevitable. Through utilizing different genetic and breeding approaches, efforts are in progress to develop the drought tolerance in maize. The recent approaches of genomics-assisted breeding, transcriptomics, proteomics, transgenics, and genome editing have fast-tracked enhancement for drought stress tolerance under laboratory and field conditions. Drought stress tolerance in maize could be considerably improved by combining omics technologies with novel breeding methods and high-throughput phenotyping (HTP). This review focuses on maize responses against drought, as well as novel breeding and system biology approaches applied to better understand drought tolerance mechanisms and the development of drought-tolerant maize cultivars. Researchers must disentangle the molecular and physiological bases of drought tolerance features in order to increase maize yield. Therefore, the integrated investments in field-based HTP, system biology, and sophisticated breeding methodologies are expected to help increase and stabilize maize production in the face of climate change.
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Jogawat A, Yadav B, Lakra N, Singh AK, Narayan OP. Crosstalk between phytohormones and secondary metabolites in the drought stress tolerance of crop plants: A review. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2021; 172:1106-1132. [PMID: 33421146 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2020] [Revised: 11/08/2020] [Accepted: 01/01/2021] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Drought stress negatively affects crop performance and weakens global food security. It triggers the activation of downstream pathways, mainly through phytohormones homeostasis and their signaling networks, which further initiate the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites (SMs). Roots sense drought stress, the signal travels to the above-ground tissues to induce systemic phytohormones signaling. The systemic signals further trigger the biosynthesis of SMs and stomatal closure to prevent water loss. SMs primarily scavenge reactive oxygen species (ROS) to protect plants from lipid peroxidation and also perform additional defense-related functions. Moreover, drought-induced volatile SMs can alert the plant tissues to perform drought stress mitigating functions in plants. Other phytohormone-induced stress responses include cell wall and cuticle thickening, root and leaf morphology alteration, and anatomical changes of roots, stems, and leaves, which in turn minimize the oxidative stress, water loss, and other adverse effects of drought. Exogenous applications of phytohormones and genetic engineering of phytohormones signaling and biosynthesis pathways mitigate the drought stress effects. Direct modulation of the SMs biosynthetic pathway genes or indirect via phytohormones' regulation provides drought tolerance. Thus, phytohormones and SMs play key roles in plant development under the drought stress environment in crop plants.
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- School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India
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- School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Biomedical Engineering Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
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Ruiz-Partida R, Rosario SM, Lozano-Juste J. An Update on Crop ABA Receptors. PLANTS 2021; 10:plants10061087. [PMID: 34071543 PMCID: PMC8229007 DOI: 10.3390/plants10061087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2021] [Revised: 05/06/2021] [Accepted: 05/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The hormone abscisic acid (ABA) orchestrates the plant stress response and regulates sophisticated metabolic and physiological mechanisms essential for survival in a changing environment. Plant ABA receptors were described more than 10 years ago, and a considerable amount of information is available for the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Unfortunately, this knowledge is still very limited in crops that hold the key to feeding a growing population. In this review, we summarize genomic, genetic and structural data obtained in crop ABA receptors. We also provide an update on ABA perception in major food crops, highlighting specific and common features of crop ABA receptors.
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- Rafael Ruiz-Partida
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Calle Ingeniero Fausto Elio s/n, Edificio 8E, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (R.R.-P.); (S.M.R.)
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- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Calle Ingeniero Fausto Elio s/n, Edificio 8E, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (R.R.-P.); (S.M.R.)
- Laboratorio de Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas y Veterinarias, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), Camino de Engombe, Santo Domingo 10904, Dominican Republic
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- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Calle Ingeniero Fausto Elio s/n, Edificio 8E, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (R.R.-P.); (S.M.R.)
- Correspondence:
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Unravelling Differences in Candidate Genes for Drought Tolerance in Potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) by Use of New Functional Microsatellite Markers. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:genes12040494. [PMID: 33800602 PMCID: PMC8067248 DOI: 10.3390/genes12040494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Revised: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Potato is regarded as drought sensitive and most vulnerable to climate changes. Its cultivation in drought prone regions or under conditions of more frequent drought periods, especially in subtropical areas, requires intensive research to improve drought tolerance in order to guarantee high yields under limited water supplies. A candidate gene approach was used to develop functional simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers for association studies in potato with the aim to enhance breeding for drought tolerance. SSR primer combinations, mostly surrounding interrupted complex and compound repeats, were derived from 103 candidate genes for drought tolerance. Validation of the SSRs was performed in an association panel representing 34 mainly starch potato cultivars. Seventy-five out of 154 SSR primer combinations (49%) resulted in polymorphic, highly reproducible banding patterns with polymorphic information content (PIC) values between 0.11 and 0.90. Five SSR markers identified allelic differences between the potato cultivars that showed significant associations with drought sensitivity. In all cases, the group of drought-sensitive cultivars showed predominantly an additional allele, indicating that selection against these alleles by marker-assisted breeding might confer drought tolerance. Further studies of these differences in the candidate genes will elucidate their role for an improved performance of potatoes under water-limited conditions.
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Garcia-Maquilon I, Coego A, Lozano-Juste J, Messerer M, de Ollas C, Julian J, Ruiz-Partida R, Pizzio G, Belda-Palazón B, Gomez-Cadenas A, Mayer KFX, Geiger D, Alquraishi SA, Alrefaei AF, Ache P, Hedrich R, Rodriguez PL. PYL8 ABA receptors of Phoenix dactylifera play a crucial role in response to abiotic stress and are stabilized by ABA. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2021; 72:757-774. [PMID: 33529339 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The identification of those prevalent abscisic acid (ABA) receptors and molecular mechanisms that trigger drought adaptation in crops well adapted to harsh conditions such as date palm (Phoenix dactylifera, Pd) sheds light on plant-environment interactions. We reveal that PdPYL8-like receptors are predominantly expressed under abiotic stress, with Pd27 being the most expressed receptor in date palm. Therefore, subfamily I PdPYL8-like receptors have been selected for ABA signaling during abiotic stress response in this crop. Biochemical characterization of PdPYL8-like and PdPYL1-like receptors revealed receptor- and ABA-dependent inhibition of PP2Cs, which triggers activation of the pRD29B-LUC reporter in response to ABA. PdPYLs efficiently abolish PP2C-mediated repression of ABA signaling, but loss of the Trp lock in the seed-specific AHG1-like phosphatase PdPP2C79 markedly impairs its inhibition by ABA receptors. Characterization of Arabidopsis transgenic plants that express PdPYLs shows enhanced ABA signaling in seed, root, and guard cells. Specifically, Pd27-overexpressing plants showed lower ABA content and were more efficient than the wild type in lowering transpiration at negative soil water potential, leading to enhanced drought tolerance. Finally, PdPYL8-like receptors accumulate after ABA treatment, which suggests that ABA-induced stabilization of these receptors operates in date palm for efficient boosting of ABA signaling in response to abiotic stress.
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- Irene Garcia-Maquilon
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Plant Genome and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Departament de Ciències Agràries i del Medi Natural, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Departament de Ciències Agràries i del Medi Natural, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
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- Plant Genome and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Biocenter, University Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Biocenter, University Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Biocenter, University Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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Ogden AJ, Abdali S, Engbrecht KM, Zhou M, Handakumbura PP. Distinct Preflowering Drought Tolerance Strategies of Sorghum bicolor Genotype RTx430 Revealed by Subcellular Protein Profiling. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21249706. [PMID: 33352693 PMCID: PMC7767018 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21249706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2020] [Revised: 12/12/2020] [Accepted: 12/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Drought is the largest stress affecting agricultural crops, resulting in substantial reductions in yield. Plant adaptation to water stress is a complex trait involving changes in hormone signaling, physiology, and morphology. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is a C4 cereal grass; it is an agricultural staple, and it is particularly drought-tolerant. To better understand drought adaptation strategies, we compared the cytosolic- and organelle-enriched protein profiles of leaves from two Sorghum bicolor genotypes, RTx430 and BTx642, with differing preflowering drought tolerances after 8 weeks of growth under water limitation in the field. In agreement with previous findings, we observed significant drought-induced changes in the abundance of multiple heat shock proteins and dehydrins in both genotypes. Interestingly, our data suggest a larger genotype-specific drought response in protein profiles of organelles, while cytosolic responses are largely similar between genotypes. Organelle-enriched proteins whose abundance significantly changed exclusively in the preflowering drought-tolerant genotype RTx430 upon drought stress suggest multiple mechanisms of drought tolerance. These include an RTx430-specific change in proteins associated with ABA metabolism and signal transduction, Rubisco activation, reactive oxygen species scavenging, flowering time regulation, and epicuticular wax production. We discuss the current understanding of these processes in relation to drought tolerance and their potential implications.
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- Aaron J. Ogden
- Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Richland, WA 99354, USA; (A.J.O.); (S.A.); (K.M.E.)
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- Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Richland, WA 99354, USA; (A.J.O.); (S.A.); (K.M.E.)
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- Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Richland, WA 99354, USA; (A.J.O.); (S.A.); (K.M.E.)
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA;
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA;
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Hou H, Lv L, Huo H, Dai H, Zhang Y. Genome-Wide Identification of the ABA Receptors Genes and Their Response to Abiotic Stress in Apple. PLANTS 2020; 9:plants9081028. [PMID: 32823728 PMCID: PMC7465321 DOI: 10.3390/plants9081028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2020] [Revised: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The pyrabactin resistance (PYR)/PYR1-like (PYL)/regulatory components of ABA receptor (RCAR) (known as PYLs for short) have been identified and characterized as the ABA receptors in some plants. However, little is known about the details regarding PYL family genes in the apple (Malusdomestica). In this study, we identified 13 apple PYLs, termed MdPYL1-13, which could be classified into four groups according to structural features of the amino acid sequence. The gene structures and conserved motifs analysis found that the majority of MdPYLs had a similar number of exons and similar conserved motif profile in the same group. In addition, 11 gene pairs were identified to exhibit synteny by synteny analysis between the apple and Arabidopsis. Furthermore, we investigated MdPYLs transcript level in various organs of the red-fleshed apple (Malussieversii f. Neidzwetzkyana (Dieck) Langenf) ‘Xinjiang No.1’. The results suggested all MdPYLs within group I were expressed at relatively higher levels in all of the organs tested. However, the genes of group IV had little or no variation. Additionally, we found various hormone and stress-related cis-elements in the promoters of MdPYLs by analyzing cis-elements. Therefore, the expression levels of all MdPYLs were further detected under ABA, PEG, salt, and cold stresses in ‘Xinjiang No.1’ seedlings. We found that all MdPYLs except for MdPYL11 were upregulated by ABA treatment, 10 genes were upregulated by PEG treatment, 12 genes were upregulated by NaCl treatment, and six genes were upregulated by cold treatment (4 °C) while seven genes were downregulated. Thus, these MdPYLs might be involved in the defense against abiotic stresses. In addition, the interaction between 13 MdPYLs and two 2C protein phosphatases in the apple (MdPP2C65 and MdPP2C72) was investigated in yeast two-hybrid assays. These results suggested that MdPYLs may bind to MdPP2C65 and MdPP2C72 in different manners and with different intensity. Our studies provide useful information for further investigating and researching the regulatory mechanisms of PYL family genes in response to abiotic stresses in the apple.
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- Hongmin Hou
- College of Horticulture, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China; (H.H.); (L.L.); (H.D.)
- Qingdao Key Laboratory of Genetic Development and Breeding in Horticultural Plants, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China
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- College of Horticulture, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China; (H.H.); (L.L.); (H.D.)
- Qingdao Key Laboratory of Genetic Development and Breeding in Horticultural Plants, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China
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- Mid-Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Apopka, FL 32703, USA;
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- College of Horticulture, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China; (H.H.); (L.L.); (H.D.)
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- College of Horticulture, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China; (H.H.); (L.L.); (H.D.)
- Qingdao Key Laboratory of Genetic Development and Breeding in Horticultural Plants, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +86-0532-860-80752
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Yu SG, Kim JH, Cho NH, Oh TR, Kim WT. Arabidopsis RING E3 ubiquitin ligase JUL1 participates in ABA-mediated microtubule depolymerization, stomatal closure, and tolerance response to drought stress. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2020; 103:824-842. [PMID: 32314432 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2019] [Revised: 03/28/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Ubiquitination is a critical post-translational protein modification that has been implicated in diverse cellular processes, including abiotic stress responses, in plants. In the present study, we identified and characterized a T-DNA insertion mutant in the At5g10650 locus. Compared to wild-type Arabidopsis plants, at5g10650 progeny were hyposensitive to ABA at the germination stage. At5g10650 possessed a single C-terminal C3HC4-type Really Interesting New Gene (RING) motif, which was essential for ABA-mediated germination and E3 ligase activity in vitro. At5g10650 was closely associated with microtubules and microtubule-associated proteins in Arabidopsis and tobacco leaf cells. Localization of At5g10650 to the nucleus was frequently observed. Unexpectedly, At5g10650 was identified as JAV1-ASSOCIATED UBIQUITIN LIGASE1 (JUL1), which was recently reported to participate in the jasmonate signaling pathway. The jul1 knockout plants exhibited impaired ABA-promoted stomatal closure. In addition, stomatal closure could not be induced by hydrogen peroxide and calcium in jul1 plants. jul1 guard cells accumulated wild-type levels of H2 O2 after ABA treatment. These findings indicated that JUL1 acts downstream of H2 O2 and calcium in the ABA-mediated stomatal closure pathway. Typical radial arrays of microtubules were maintained in jul1 guard cells after exposure to ABA, H2 O2 , and calcium, which in turn resulted in ABA-hyposensitive stomatal movements. Finally, jul1 plants were markedly more susceptible to drought stress than wild-type plants. Overall, our results suggest that the Arabidopsis RING E3 ligase JUL1 plays a critical role in ABA-mediated microtubule disorganization, stomatal closure, and tolerance to drought stress.
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- Seong Gwan Yu
- Department of Systems Biology and Division of Life Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea
- Institute of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea
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- Department of Systems Biology and Division of Life Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea
- Institute of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea
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- Department of Systems Biology and Division of Life Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea
- Institute of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea
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- Department of Systems Biology and Division of Life Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea
- Institute of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea
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- Department of Systems Biology and Division of Life Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea
- Institute of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea
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Bhatnagar N, Kim R, Han S, Song J, Lee GS, Lee S, Min MK, Kim BG. Ectopic Expression of OsPYL/RCAR7, an ABA Receptor Having Low Signaling Activity, Improves Drought Tolerance without Growth Defects in Rice. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21114163. [PMID: 32545174 PMCID: PMC7312952 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21114163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Revised: 06/08/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Overexpression of abscisic acid (ABA) receptors has been reported to enhance drought tolerance, but also to cause stunted growth and decreased crop yield. Here, we constructed transgenic rice for all monomeric ABA receptors and observed that only transgenic rice over-expressing OsPYL/RCAR7 showed similar phenotype with wild type, without total yield loss when grown under normal growth condition in a paddy field. Even though transgenic rice over-expressing OsPYL/RCAR7 showed neither an ABA-sensitivity nor an osmotic stress tolerance in plate assay, it showed drought tolerance. We investigated the ABA-dependent interaction with OsPP2CAs and ABA signaling induction by OsPYL/RCAR7. In yeast two hybrid assay, OsPYL/RCAR7 required critically higher ABA concentrations to interact with OsPP2CAs than other ABA receptors, and co-immunoprecipitation assay showed strong interaction under ABA treatment. When ABA-responsive signaling activity was monitored using a transient expression system in rice protoplasts, OsPYL/RCAR7 had the lowest ABA-responsive signaling activity as compared with other ABA receptors. OsPYL/RCAR7 also showed weak suppression of phosphatase activity as compared with other ABA receptors in vitro. Transcriptome analysis of transgenic rice over-expressing OsPYL/RCAR7 suggested that only a few genes were induced similar to control under without exogenous ABA, but a large number of genes was induced under ABA treatment compared with control. We conclude that OsPYL/RCAR7 is a novel functional ABA receptor that has low ABA signaling activity and exhibits high ABA dependence. These results lay the foundation for a new strategy to improve drought stress tolerance without compromising crop growth.
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- Nikita Bhatnagar
- Metabolic Engineering Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do 54874, Korea; (N.B.); (R.K.); (J.S.)
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- Metabolic Engineering Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do 54874, Korea; (N.B.); (R.K.); (J.S.)
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea; (S.H.); (S.L.)
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- Metabolic Engineering Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do 54874, Korea; (N.B.); (R.K.); (J.S.)
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- Biosafety Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do 54874, Korea;
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea; (S.H.); (S.L.)
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- Metabolic Engineering Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do 54874, Korea; (N.B.); (R.K.); (J.S.)
- Correspondence: (M.K.M.); (B.-G.K.)
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- Metabolic Engineering Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do 54874, Korea; (N.B.); (R.K.); (J.S.)
- Correspondence: (M.K.M.); (B.-G.K.)
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Zhang H, Xiang Y, He N, Liu X, Liu H, Fang L, Zhang F, Sun X, Zhang D, Li X, Terzaghi W, Yan J, Dai M. Enhanced Vitamin C Production Mediated by an ABA-Induced PTP-like Nucleotidase Improves Plant Drought Tolerance in Arabidopsis and Maize. MOLECULAR PLANT 2020; 13:760-776. [PMID: 32068157 DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2020.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2019] [Revised: 02/09/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Abscisic acid (ABA) is a key phytohormone that mediates environmental stress responses. Vitamin C, or L-ascorbic acid (AsA), is the most abundant antioxidant protecting against stress damage in plants. How the ABA and AsA signaling pathways interact in stress responses remains elusive. In this study, we characterized the role of a previously unidentified gene, PTPN (PTP-like Nucleotidase) in plant drought tolerance. In Arabidopsis, (AtPTPN was expressed in multiple tissues and upregulated by ABA and drought treatments. Loss-of-function mutants of AtPTPN were hyposensitive to ABA but hypersensitive to drought stresses, whereas plants with enhanced expression of AtPTPN showed opposite phenotypes to . Overexpression of maize PTPN (ZmPTPN) promoted, while knockdown of ZmPTPN inhibited plant drought tolerance, indicating conserved and positive roles of PTPN in plant drought tolerance. We found that both AtPTPN and ZmPTPN release Pi by hydrolyzing GDP/GMP/dGMP/IMP/dIMP, and that AtPTPN positively regulated AsA production via endogenous Pi content control. Consistently, overexpression of VTC2, the rate-limiting synthetic enzyme in AsA biosynthesis, promoted AsA production and plant drought tolerance, and these effects were largely dependent on AtPTPN activity. Furthermore, we demonstrated that the heat shock transcription factor HSFA6a directly binds the AtPTPN promoter and activates AtPTPN expression. Genetic analyses showed that AtPTPN is required for HSFA6a to regulate ABA and drought responses. Taken together, our data indicate that PTPN-mediated crosstalk between the ABA signaling and AsA biosynthesis pathways positively controls plant drought tolerance.
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- Hui Zhang
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology, Agro-Biotechnology Institute, Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun 130124, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Department of Biology, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766, USA
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
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Plants are subjected to extreme environmental conditions and must adapt rapidly. The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) accumulates during abiotic stress, signaling transcriptional changes that trigger physiological responses. Epigenetic modifications often facilitate transcription, particularly at genes exhibiting temporal, tissue-specific and environmentally-induced expression. In maize (Zea mays), MEDIATOR OF PARAMUTATION 1 (MOP1) is required for progression of an RNA-dependent epigenetic pathway that regulates transcriptional silencing of loci genomewide. MOP1 function has been previously correlated with genomic regions adjoining particular types of transposable elements and genic regions, suggesting that this regulatory pathway functions to maintain distinct transcriptional activities within genomic spaces, and that loss of MOP1 may modify the responsiveness of some loci to other regulatory pathways. As critical regulators of gene expression, MOP1 and ABA pathways each regulate specific genes. To determine whether loss of MOP1 impacts ABA-responsive gene expression in maize, mop1-1 and Mop1 homozygous seedlings were subjected to exogenous ABA and RNA-sequencing. A total of 3,242 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified in four pairwise comparisons. Overall, ABA-induced changes in gene expression were enhanced in mop1-1 homozygous plants. The highest number of DEGs were identified in ABA-induced mop1-1 mutants, including many transcription factors; this suggests combinatorial regulatory scenarios including direct and indirect transcriptional responses to genetic disruption (mop1-1) and/or stimulus-induction of a hierarchical, cascading network of responsive genes. Additionally, a modest increase in CHH methylation at putative MOP1-RdDM loci in response to ABA was observed in some genotypes, suggesting that epigenetic variation might influence environmentally-induced transcriptional responses in maize.
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Vaidya AS, Helander JDM, Peterson FC, Elzinga D, Dejonghe W, Kaundal A, Park SY, Xing Z, Mega R, Takeuchi J, Khanderahoo B, Bishay S, Volkman BF, Todoroki Y, Okamoto M, Cutler SR. Dynamic control of plant water use using designed ABA receptor agonists. Science 2020; 366:366/6464/eaaw8848. [PMID: 31649167 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw8848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2019] [Accepted: 09/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Drought causes crop losses worldwide, and its impact is expected to increase as the world warms. This has motivated the development of small-molecule tools for mitigating the effects of drought on agriculture. We show here that current leads are limited by poor bioactivity in wheat, a widely grown staple crop, and in tomato. To address this limitation, we combined virtual screening, x-ray crystallography, and structure-guided design to develop opabactin (OP), an abscisic acid (ABA) mimic with up to an approximately sevenfold increase in receptor affinity relative to ABA and up to 10-fold greater activity in vivo. Studies in Arabidopsis thaliana reveal a role of the type III receptor PYRABACTIN RESISTANCE-LIKE 2 for the antitranspirant efficacy of OP. Thus, virtual screening and structure-guided optimization yielded newly discovered agonists for manipulating crop abiotic stress tolerance and water use.
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- Aditya S Vaidya
- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.,Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.,Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.,Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.,Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.,Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.,Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.,Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University, 1390 Hamasaka, Tottori 680-0001, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan.,Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
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- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.,Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.,Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan.,Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
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- Center for Bioscience Research and Education, Utsunomiya University, 350 Mine, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 321-8505, Japan.,PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. .,Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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Verma RK, Santosh Kumar VV, Yadav SK, Pushkar S, Rao MV, Chinnusamy V. Overexpression of ABA Receptor PYL10 Gene Confers Drought and Cold Tolerance to Indica Rice. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:1488. [PMID: 31850010 PMCID: PMC6892954 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2019] [Accepted: 10/28/2019] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Abscisic acid (ABA) plays versatile functions in regulating plant development and tolerance to various biotic and abiotic stresses. Towards elucidating the functions of one of the ABA receptors (ABARs) in rice, OsPYL10 was cloned from drought tolerant rice cv. Nagina 22 and was overexpressed under stress inducible RD29A promoter in a mega rice variety MTU1010 by using Agrobacterium mediated genetic transformation. Four single copy transgenic lines selected based on Southern blot analysis were used for physiological and molecular analysis. PYL10 receptor appears to regulate its ligand ABA accumulation as PYL10 overexpressing transgenics accumulated 2-3.3-fold higher levels of ABA than that of WT in flag leaf at anthesis under non-stress conditions. The enhanced accumulation of ABA was associated with enhanced expression of genes for ABA biosynthesis viz., ZEP1, NCED1, NCED2, NCED3, and NCED4 in transgenics than in WT plants. At seedling stage, PYL10 transgenics showed significantly higher survival rate under cold stress as compared with WT plants. qRT-PCR analysis showed that expression levels of cold responsive genes viz., DREB1F, MYB3R2, TPP1, COR410, DEHYDRIN, and LEA3 were significantly higher in PYL10 overexpressing transgenic lines as compared to WT plants under cold stress. PYL10 transgenic and WT plants grown in the same pot were subjected to -80 kPa drought stress and recovery treatments at vegetative and reproductive stages. At vegetative stage drought stress, three overexpressing lines showed significantly higher grain yield (40-58%) and at reproductive stage drought stress one of these overexpression lines showed two-fold higher grain yield than that of WT plants. Excised leaf water loss analysis showed that PYL10 transgenic lost about 20% less water than WT plants. At reproductive stage, OsPYL10 transgenic maintained higher RWC, membrane stability index, chlorophyll content, and accumulated lower amount of MDA and H2O2 as compared with WT plants. qRT-PCR analysis showed that expression levels of RAB16, Dehydrin, LEA3, and ABA45 were higher in PYL10 transgenics as compared with WT plants under drought stress. Thus, overall results showed that OsPYL10 overexpression has potential to improve both drought and cold stress tolerance of indica rice.
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- Rakesh Kumar Verma
- Division of Plant Physiology, ICAR–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Plant Physiology, ICAR–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Plant Physiology, ICAR–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India
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- Division of Plant Physiology, ICAR–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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Park YC, Choi SY, Kim JH, Jang CS. Molecular Functions of Rice Cytosol-Localized RING Finger Protein 1 in Response to Salt and Drought and Comparative Analysis of Its Grass Orthologs. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 60:2394-2409. [PMID: 31292649 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcz133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
Abstract
In higher plants, the post-translational modification of target proteins via the attachment of molecules such as ubiquitin (Ub) mediates a variety of cellular functions via the Ub/26S proteasome system. Here, a really interesting new gene (RING)-H2 type E3 ligase, which regulates target proteins via the Ub/26S proteasome system, was isolated from a rice plant, and its other grass orthologs were examined to determine the evolution of its molecular function during speciation. The gene encoding Oryza sativa cytoplasmic-localized RING finger protein 1 (OsCLR1) was highly expressed under salt and drought stresses. By contrast, the three grass orthologs, SbCLR1 from Sorghum bicolor, ZmCLR1 from Zea mays and TaCLR1 from Triticum aestivum, showed different responses to these stresses. Despite these differences, all four orthologs exhibited E3 ligase activity with cytosol-targeted localization, demonstrating conserved molecular functions. Although OsCLR1-overexpressing plants showed higher survival rates under both salt and drought stresses than that of the wild type (WT) plants, this pattern was not observed in the other orthologs. In addition, OsCLR1-overexpressing plants exhibited lower germination rates in ABA than that of WT plants, whereas the three ortholog CLR1-overexpressing plants showed rates similar to the WT plants. These results indicate the positive regulation of OsCLR1 in response to salt and drought in an ABA-dependent manner. Despite the molecular functions of the three CLR1 orthologs remaining largely unknown, our results provide an insight into the evolutionary fate of CLR1 grass orthologs during speciation after the divergence from a common ancestor.
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- Yong Chan Park
- Plant Genomics Laboratory, Department of Bio-Resources Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
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- Plant Genomics Laboratory, Department of Bio-Resources Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
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- Plant Genomics Laboratory, Department of Bio-Resources Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
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- Plant Genomics Laboratory, Department of Bio-Resources Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
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He Z, Wu J, Sun X, Dai M. The Maize Clade A PP2C Phosphatases Play Critical Roles in Multiple Abiotic Stress Responses. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20143573. [PMID: 31336603 PMCID: PMC6679055 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20143573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2019] [Revised: 07/17/2019] [Accepted: 07/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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As the core components of abscisic acid (ABA) signal pathway, Clade A PP2C (PP2C-A) phosphatases in ABA-dependent stress responses have been well studied in Arabidopsis. However, the roles and natural variations of maize PP2C-A in stress responses remain largely unknown. In this study, we investigated the expression patterns of ZmPP2C-As treated with multiple stresses and generated transgenic Arabidopsis plants overexpressing most of the ZmPP2C-A genes. The results showed that the expression of most ZmPP2C-As were dramatically induced by multiple stresses (drought, salt, and ABA), indicating that these genes may have important roles in response to these stresses. Compared with wild-type plants, ZmPP2C-A1, ZmPP2C-A2, and ZmPP2C-A6 overexpression plants had higher germination rates after ABA and NaCl treatments. ZmPP2C-A2 and ZmPP2C-A6 negatively regulated drought responses as the plants overexpressing these genes had lower survival rates, higher leaf water loss rates, and lower proline accumulation compared to wild type plants. The natural variations of ZmPP2C-As associated with drought tolerance were also analyzed and favorable alleles were detected. We widely studied the roles of ZmPP2C-A genes in stress responses and the natural variations detected in these genes have the potential to be used as molecular markers in genetic improvement of maize drought tolerance.
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- Zhenghua He
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Food Crop Germplasm and Genetic Improvement, Food Crops Institute, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan 430064, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
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Yoshida T, Christmann A, Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K, Grill E, Fernie AR. Revisiting the Basal Role of ABA - Roles Outside of Stress. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 24:625-635. [PMID: 31153771 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2019] [Revised: 04/23/2019] [Accepted: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The physiological roles of abscisic acid (ABA) as a stress hormone in plant responses to water shortage, including stomatal regulation and gene expression, have been well documented. However, less attention has been paid to the function of basal ABA synthesized under well-watered conditions in recent studies. In this review, we summarize progress in the understanding of how low concentrations of ABA are perceived at the molecular level and how its signaling affects plant metabolism and growth under nonstressed conditions. We also discuss the dual nature of ABA in acting as an inhibitor and activator of plant growth and development.
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- Takuya Yoshida
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
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- Lehrstuhl für Botanik, Technische Universität München, D-85354 Freising, Germany
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 113-8657 Tokyo, Japan
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- Lehrstuhl für Botanik, Technische Universität München, D-85354 Freising, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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