Alter, Philipp and Bircheneder, Susanne and Zhou, Liang-Zi and Schlueter, Urte and Gahrtz, Manfred and Sonnewald, Uwe and Dresselhaus, Thomas (2016) Flowering Time-Regulated Genes in Maize Include the Transcription Factor ZmMADS1. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, 172 (1). pp. 389-404. ISSN 0032-0889, 1532-2548
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Flowering time (FTi) control is well examined in the long-day plant Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), and increasing knowledge is available for the short-day plant rice (Oryza sativa). In contrast, little is known in the day-neutral and agronomically important crop plant maize (Zea mays). To learn more about FTi and to identify novel regulators in this species, we first compared the time points of floral transition of almost 30 maize inbred lines and show that tropical lines exhibit a delay in flowering transition of more than 3 weeks under long-day conditions compared with European flint lines adapted to temperate climate zones. We further analyzed the leaf transcriptomes of four lines that exhibit strong differences in flowering transition to identify new key players of the flowering control network in maize. We found strong differences among regulated genes between these lines and thus assume that the regulation of FTi is very complex in maize. Especially genes encoding MADS box transcriptional regulators are up-regulated in leaves during the meristem transition. ZmMADS1 was selected for functional studies. We demonstrate that it represents a functional ortholog of the central FTi integrator SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CONSTANS1 (SOC1) of Arabidopsis. RNA interference-mediated down-regulation of ZmMADS1 resulted in a delay of FTi in maize, while strong overexpression caused an early-flowering phenotype, indicating its role as a flowering activator. Taken together, we report that ZmMADS1 represents a positive FTi regulator that shares an evolutionarily conserved function with SOC1 and may now serve as an ideal stating point to study the integration and variation of FTi pathways also in maize.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | MADS-BOX GENE; FLORAL ORGAN IDENTITY; CIRCADIAN CLOCK; SHOOT APEX; FUNCTIONAL CONSERVATION; MEDIATED TRANSFORMATION; ARABIDOPSIS-THALIANA; POD CORN; RICE; TRANSITION; |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 570 Life sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften > Lehrstuhl für Zellbiologie und Pflanzenphysiologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2019 14:24 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Mar 2019 14:24 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/3341 |
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