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PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 303, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2020.110796
Keywords
2,4,6-TCP; Flavonoid; Reactive oxygen species; SlMYB14; SlPAL; Tomato
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- Key Project Fund of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of Agriculture [2018 1-5]
- Shanghai Academic Technology Research Leader [19XD1432300]
- Shanghai Natural Science Foundation [18ZR1413100]
- National Natural Science Foundation [31672439]
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SlMYB14 is a key transcription factor in tomato that regulates flavonoid biosynthesis and enhances plant tolerance to environmental organic pollutants.
Flavonoids are small molecular secondary metabolites, which have a variety of biological functions. Transcriptional regulations of key enzyme genes play critical roles in the flavonoid biosynthesis. In this study, an R2R3-MYB transcription factor gene, SlMYB14, was isolated from tomato and characterized. The nucleuslocalized SlMYB14 functions as a transcriptional activator in yeast. The expression of SlMYB14 could be induced by methyl jasmonic acid, wounding and ABA. SlMYB14 works downstream of SlMYC2 in the jasmonate signaling pathway. Overexpression of SlMYB14 under the control of CaMV35S promoter in tomato led to increased accumulation of flavonoids. RNA-sequencing analysis revealed that the transcript levels of several structural genes associated with flavonoid biosynthesis were up-regulated in transgenic tomato plants. Gel-shift assays confirmed that SlMYB14 protein could bind to the promoter regions of SlPAL genes. It was also found that overexpression of SlMYB14 improved the tolerance of transgenic plants to 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (2,4,6-TCP), an environmental organic pollutant which could cause serious oxidative damage to plant. These results suggest that SlMYB14 participates in the regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis and might play a role in maintaining reactive oxygen species homeostasis in plant. SlMYB14 gene also has the potential to contribute to the phytoremediation of 2,4,6-TCP-contaminated soils.
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