Leaf development underlies crop growth and productivity and has been a major target of crop domestication and improvement.However,most genes controlling leaf development in barley remain unknown.We identified a dwarf ...Leaf development underlies crop growth and productivity and has been a major target of crop domestication and improvement.However,most genes controlling leaf development in barley remain unknown.We identified a dwarf and liguleless(dl)mutant derived by ethylmethane sulfonate mutagenesis.The dl mutant showed dramatic changes in shoot architecture compared with wild-type(Yangnongpi 5)plants.Besides lacking ligules,the dl mutant showed much shorter plant height(28 cm)than Yangnongpi 5(78 cm).By map-based cloning,the dl gene was localized to a 56.58-kb genomic interval on the long arm of chromosome 7.A C-to-T single-nucleotide substitution was identified at exon position 790,and is a functional mutation resulting in a proline-to-serine substitution at the 264th amino acid residue of HORVU7Hr1G106960.Consequently,HORVU7Hr1G106960 was identified as the DL gene,encoding 269 amino acids and containing the Arabidopsis LSH1 and Oryza G1(ALOG)domain.DL is highly similar to rice OsG1-LIKE 1/2(OsG1L1/2)and sorghum AWN1/AWN1-10 at the amino acid level.Although the dl mutant allele showed no expression changes in selected tissues by real-time PCR,we propose HORVU7Hr1G106960 as a candidate gene conferring the dwarf and liguleless phenotype in barley.展开更多
Over the past few decades,significant improvements in maize yield have been largely attributed to increased plant density of upright hybrid varieties rather than increased yield per plant.However,dense planting trigge...Over the past few decades,significant improvements in maize yield have been largely attributed to increased plant density of upright hybrid varieties rather than increased yield per plant.However,dense planting triggers shade avoidance responses(SARs)that optimize light absorption but impair plant vigor and performance,limiting yield improvement through increasing plant density.In this study,we demonstrated that high-density-induced leaf angle narrowing and stem/stalk elongation are largely dependent on phytochrome B(phyB1/B2),the primaryphotoreceptor responsible for perceiving red(R)and far-red(FR)light in maize.We found that maize phyB physically interacts with the LIGULELESS1(LG1),a classical key regulator of leaf angle,to coordinately regulate plant architecture and density tolerance.The abundance of LG1 is significantly increased by phyB under high R:FR light(low density)but rapidly decreases under low R:FR light(high density),correlating with variations in leaf angle and plant height under various densities.In addition,we identified the homeobox transcription factor HB53 as a target co-repressed by both phyB and LG1 but rapidly induced by canopy shade.Genetic and cellular analyses showed that HB53 regulates plant architecture by controlling the elongation and division of ligular adaxial and abaxial cells.Taken together,these findings uncover the phyB-LG1-HB53 regulatory module as a key molecular mechanism governing plant architecture and density tolerance,providing potential genetic targets for breeding maize hybrid varieties suitable for high-density planting.展开更多
基金supported by the Open Project Program of Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, the Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University (JILARKF202002)Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (19KJA560005)+1 种基金China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA (CARS-05)a Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
文摘Leaf development underlies crop growth and productivity and has been a major target of crop domestication and improvement.However,most genes controlling leaf development in barley remain unknown.We identified a dwarf and liguleless(dl)mutant derived by ethylmethane sulfonate mutagenesis.The dl mutant showed dramatic changes in shoot architecture compared with wild-type(Yangnongpi 5)plants.Besides lacking ligules,the dl mutant showed much shorter plant height(28 cm)than Yangnongpi 5(78 cm).By map-based cloning,the dl gene was localized to a 56.58-kb genomic interval on the long arm of chromosome 7.A C-to-T single-nucleotide substitution was identified at exon position 790,and is a functional mutation resulting in a proline-to-serine substitution at the 264th amino acid residue of HORVU7Hr1G106960.Consequently,HORVU7Hr1G106960 was identified as the DL gene,encoding 269 amino acids and containing the Arabidopsis LSH1 and Oryza G1(ALOG)domain.DL is highly similar to rice OsG1-LIKE 1/2(OsG1L1/2)and sorghum AWN1/AWN1-10 at the amino acid level.Although the dl mutant allele showed no expression changes in selected tissues by real-time PCR,we propose HORVU7Hr1G106960 as a candidate gene conferring the dwarf and liguleless phenotype in barley.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32270263 to G.L.,32130077 to H.W.,and 32272140 to P.L.)the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation(ZR2022QC095,ZR2020MC023,ZR2022MC019).
文摘Over the past few decades,significant improvements in maize yield have been largely attributed to increased plant density of upright hybrid varieties rather than increased yield per plant.However,dense planting triggers shade avoidance responses(SARs)that optimize light absorption but impair plant vigor and performance,limiting yield improvement through increasing plant density.In this study,we demonstrated that high-density-induced leaf angle narrowing and stem/stalk elongation are largely dependent on phytochrome B(phyB1/B2),the primaryphotoreceptor responsible for perceiving red(R)and far-red(FR)light in maize.We found that maize phyB physically interacts with the LIGULELESS1(LG1),a classical key regulator of leaf angle,to coordinately regulate plant architecture and density tolerance.The abundance of LG1 is significantly increased by phyB under high R:FR light(low density)but rapidly decreases under low R:FR light(high density),correlating with variations in leaf angle and plant height under various densities.In addition,we identified the homeobox transcription factor HB53 as a target co-repressed by both phyB and LG1 but rapidly induced by canopy shade.Genetic and cellular analyses showed that HB53 regulates plant architecture by controlling the elongation and division of ligular adaxial and abaxial cells.Taken together,these findings uncover the phyB-LG1-HB53 regulatory module as a key molecular mechanism governing plant architecture and density tolerance,providing potential genetic targets for breeding maize hybrid varieties suitable for high-density planting.
