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PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 225, Issue -, Pages 15-23Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2014.05.005
Keywords
Mepiquat chloride; GA; GA biosynthesis; Cell elongation; Internode elongation; Cotton
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31271628]
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The growth regulator mepiquat chloride (MC) is globally used in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L) canopy manipulation to avoid excess growth and yield loss. However, little information is available as to whether the modification of plant architecture by MC is related to alterations in gibberellic acid (GA) metabolism and signaling. Here, the role of GA metabolism and signaling was investigated in cotton seedlings treated with MC. The MC significantly decreased endogenous GA(3) and GA(4) levels in the elongating internode, which inhibited cell elongation by downregulating GhEXP and GhXTH2, and then reducing plant height. Biosynthetic and metabolic genes of GA were markedly suppressed within 2-10 d of MC treatment, which also downregulated the expression of DELLA-like genes. A remarkable feedback regulation was observed at the early stage of MC treatment when GA biosynthetic and metabolic genes expression was evidently upregulated. Mepiquat chloride action was controlled by temporal translocation and spatial accumulation which regulated GA biosynthesis and signal expression for maintaining GA homeostasis. The results suggested that MC application could reduce endogenous GA levels in cotton through controlled GA biosynthetic and metabolic genes expression, which might inhibit cell elongation, thereby shortening the internode and reducing plant height. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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