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JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 168, Issue 2, Pages 140-147Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2010.06.006
Keywords
ABA biosynthesis; Abiotic stress; Arabidopsis thaliana; AtNCED3; lenc1
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- Korean Government [KRF-2005-070-000128]
- Research Institute for Basic Sciences, Pusan National University, Korea [RIBS-PNU-2009-110]
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The plant hormone, abscisic acid (ABA), is a main signal transducer that confers abiotic stress tolerance to plants. Although the pathway of ABA production and the genes catalyzing its biosynthesis are largely defined, the regulatory mechanism of ABA biosynthesis in response to abiotic stress remains much unknown. In this study, to identify upstream genes regulating ABA biosynthesis involved in abiotic stress signal transduction, Arabidopsis thaliana mutants with altered promoter activity of 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase 3 (NCED3), a key gene in ABA biosynthesis, were identified and characterized. Among selected mutants, lend 1 (for low expression of NCED3 1) after dehydration treatment had lower AtNCED3 promoter activity compared with wild type. lend mutation is recessive and is located on chromosome 4. Expression analysis of AtNCED3 and quantification of ABA levels showed that both the AtNCED3 transcripts and the endogenous ABA in lend l were less abundant than in wild type under dehydration treatments. The lenc1 was hypersensitive to methyl viologen (MV), LiCl, NaCl and high light. The aerial part of lend l lost water faster than wild type possibly due to a larger stomata opening. Our results suggest LENC1 might act as a positive regulator in AtNCED3 gene expression under osmotic stress. (C) 2010 Elsevier GmbH.-All rights reserved.
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