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Natural variation in the expression of ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER 1 affects root length responses to cadaverine in Arabidopsis

Journal

JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 66, Issue 3, Pages 853-862

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru444

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Arabidopsis; cadaverine; natural variation; polyamines; roots; transporter

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  1. University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Hatch program
  2. National Science Foundation [IOS-0821884, IOS-1121694]
  3. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
  4. National Institutes of Health Training Grant in Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Polyamines, including cadaverine, are organic cations that affect numerous biological processes including transcription, translation, cell signalling, and ion channel activity. They often function in biotic and abiotic stress responses in plants. Because little is known about how plants respond to cadaverine, a quantitative natural variation approach was used to identify genetic factors that contribute to this response. Here it is shown that Arabidopsis thaliana accessions have varying root length responses to exogenous cadaverine: Cape Verde Islands (Cvi) was one of the most resistant accessions tested, whereas Landsberg erecta (Ler) was one of the most sensitive. Recombinant inbred lines, near isogenic lines, and a microarray were used to show that variation in ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER 1 (OCT1) is at least partially responsible for this difference. OCT1 expression was higher in Cvi than in Ler, and oct1 mutants were more sensitive to cadaverine than wild-type plants. In oct1 mutants transformed with an ectopic copy of OCT1 originating from either Cvi or Ler, the expression level of the transgene, not its accession, correlated with the cadaverine response. These results suggest that decreased OCT1 expression confers cadaverine sensitivity in some accessions.

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