Journal
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages 878-896Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13595
Keywords
cytokinin; cytokinin glucosyl transferase; wheat; cytokinin O‐ glucoside; glucosyl transferase; cytokinin N‐ glucoside; zeatin glucoside; cis‐ regulatory elements
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Cytokinins play a crucial role in crop productivity and their levels are controlled by various factors. While manipulating gene expression can positively affect crop yield and stress tolerance, the research on cytokinin glucosyl transferases has been limited.
The cytokinins, which are N-6-substituted adenine derivatives, control key aspects of crop productivity. Cytokinin levels are controlled via biosynthesis by isopentenyl transferase (IPT), destruction by cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase (CKX), and inactivation via glucosylation by cytokinin glucosyl transferases (CGTs). While both yield components and tolerance to drought and related abiotic stressors have been positively addressed via manipulation of IPT and/or CKX expression, much less attention has been paid to the CGTs. As naming of the CGTs has been unclear, we suggest COGT, CNGT, CONGT and CNOGT to describe the O-, N- and dual function CGTs. As specific CGT mutants of both rice and arabidopsis showed impacts on yield components, we interrogated the wheat genome database, IWGSC RefSeq v1.0 & v2.0, to investigate wheat CGTs. Besides providing unambiguous names for the 53 wheat CGTs, we show their expression patterns in 70 developmental tissues and their response characteristics to various stress conditions by reviewing more than 1000 RNA-seq data sets. These revealed various patterns of responses and showed expression generally being more limited in reproductive tissues than in vegetative tissues. Multiple cis-regulatory elements are present in the 3 kb upstream of the start codons of the 53 CGTs. Elements associated with abscisic acid, light and methyl jasmonate are particularly over-represented, indicative of the responsiveness of CGTs to the environment. These data sets indicate that CGTs have potential value for wheat improvement and that these could be targeted in TILLING or gene editing wheat breeding programmes.
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