Journal
JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY
Volume 51, Issue 9, Pages 825-833Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2009.00853.x
Keywords
abiotic stress; dihydroorotate dehydrogenase; rice; transgene
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30600350]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [1308025]
- Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT)
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In the present paper, we identified and cloned OsDHODH1 encoding a putative cytosolic dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) in rice. Expression analysis indicated that OsDHODH1 is upregulated by salt, drought and exogenous abscisic acid (ABA), but not by cold. By prokaryotic expression, we determined the enzymatic activity of OsDHODH1 and found that overproduction of OsDHODH1 significantly improved the tolerance of Escherichia coli cells to salt and osmotic stresses. Overexpression of the OsDHODH1 gene in rice increased the DHODH activity and enhanced plant tolerance to salt and drought stresses as compared with wild type and OsDHODH1-antisense transgenic plants. Our findings reveal, for the first time, that cytosolic dihydroorotate dehydrogenase is involved in plant stress response and that OsDHODH1 could be used in engineering crop plants with enhanced tolerance to salt and drought.
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