Journal
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 791-804Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13247
Keywords
Triticum aestivum; salinity tolerance; reactive oxygen species scavenging; Zat12
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Project [2016YFD0101004]
- National Natural Science Fund of China [31601306, 31722038]
- Natural Science Fund of Jiangsu Province, China [BK20161092]
- Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program of China Association for Science and Technology
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As one of the largest gene families in plants, the cytochrome P450 monooxygenase genes (CYPs) are involved in diverse biological processes including biotic and abiotic stress response. Moreover, P450 genes are prone to expanding due to gene tandem duplication during evolution, resulting in generations of novel alleles with the neo-function or enhanced function. Here, the bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) gene TaCYP81D5 was found to lie within a cluster of five tandemly arranged CYP81D genes, although only a single such gene (BdCYP81D1) was present in the equivalent genomic region of the wheat relative Brachypodium distachyon. The imposition of salinity stress could up-regulate TaCYP81D5, but the effect was abolished in plants treated with an inhibitor of reactive oxygen species synthesis. In SR3, a wheat cultivar with an elevated ROS content, the higher expression and the rapider response to salinity of TaCYP81D5 were related to the chromatin modification. Constitutively expressing TaCYP81D5 enhanced the salinity tolerance both at seedling and reproductive stages of wheat via accelerating ROS scavenging. Moreover, an important component of ROS signal transduction, Zat12, was proven crucial in this process. Though knockout of solely TaCYP81D5 showed no effect on salinity tolerance, knockdown of BdCYP81D1 or all TaCYP81D members in the cluster caused the sensitivity to salt stress. Our results provide the direct evidence that TaCYP81D5 confers salinity tolerance in bread wheat and this gene is prospective for crop improvement.
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