Journal
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 19, Issue 8, Pages 1588-1601Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13572
Keywords
ASR; abiotic stress; transgenic wheat; ROS; ABA; grain yield
Funding
- National Genetically Modified New Varieties of Major Projects of China [2016ZX08010004-004]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31771418, 31570261]
- Key Project of Hubei Province [2017AHB041]
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The study found that TaASR1-D can increase wheat tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses and improve yield under salt stress. This gene enhances abiotic stress tolerance by reinforcing antioxidant capacity and ABA signaling.
Cultivating new crop cultivars with multiple abiotic stress tolerances is important for crop production. The abscisic acid-stress-ripening (ASR) protein has been shown to confer abiotic stress tolerance in plants. However, the mechanisms of ASR function under stress condition remain largely unclear. In this study, we characterized all ASR family members in common wheat and constitutively overexpressed TaASR1-D in a commercial hexaploid wheat cultivar Zhengmai 9023. The transgenic wheat plants exhibited increased tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses and increased grain yields under salt stress condition. Overexpression of TaASR1-D conferred enhanced antioxidant capacity and ABA sensitivity in transgenic wheat plants. Further, RNA in situ hybridization results showed that TaASR1-D had higher expression levels in the vascular tissues of leaves and the parenchyma cells around the vascular tissues of roots and stems. Yeast one-hybrid and electrophoretic mobility shift assays revealed that TaASR1-D could directly bind the specific cis-elements in the promoters of TaNCED1 and TaGPx1-D. In conclusion, our findings suggest that TaASR1-D can be used to breed new wheat cultivars with increased multiple abiotic stress tolerances, and TaASR1-D enhances abiotic stress tolerances by reinforcing antioxidant capacity and ABA signalling.
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