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Nitrogen deficiency- and sucrose-induced anthocyanin biosynthesis is modulated by HISTONE DEACETYLASE15 in Arabidopsis

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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 73, Issue 11, Pages 3726-3742

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erac067

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Anthocyanin; Arabidopsis thaliana; histone acetylation; methyl jasmonate; nitrogen deficiency; sugar

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  1. Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [MOST 109-2311-B-001-030-MY3]

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The study reveals that HDA15-mediated histone modification regulates anthocyanin accumulation in response to N deficiency and other stresses in Arabidopsis. Different stresses activate anthocyanin biosynthesis through distinct regulatory modules.
HDA15-mediated histone modification in Arabidopsis modulates the expression of anthocyanin biosynthetic and regulatory genes to avoid overaccumulation in response to N deficiency and other stresses Anthocyanin accumulation is a hallmark response to nitrogen (N) deficiency in Arabidopsis. Although the regulation of anthocyanin biosynthesis has been extensively studied, the roles of chromatin modification in this process are largely unknown. In this study we show that anthocyanin accumulation induced by N deficiency is modulated by HISTONE DEACETYLASE15 (HDA15) in Arabidopsis seedlings. The hda15-1 T-DNA insertion mutant accumulated more anthocyanins than the wild-type when the N supply was limited, and this was caused by up-regulation of anthocyanin biosynthetic and regulatory genes in the mutant. The up-regulated genes also had increased levels of histone acetylation in the mutant. The accumulation of anthocyanins induced by sucrose and methyl jasmonate, but not that induced by H2O2 and phosphate starvation, was also greater in the hda15-1 mutant. While sucrose increased histone acetylation in the hda15-1 mutant in genes in a similar manner to that caused by N deficiency, methyl jasmonate only enhanced histone acetylation in the genes involved in anthocyanin biosynthesis. Our results suggest that different stresses act through distinct regulatory modules to activate anthocyanin biosynthesis, and that HDA15-mediated histone modification modulates the expression of anthocyanin biosynthetic and regulatory genes to avoid overaccumulation in response to N deficiency and other stresses.

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