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PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 63, Issue 4, Pages 535-549Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcac019
Keywords
BES1 transcription factor; DELLA; Gibberellin metabolism; Gibberellin signaling; Leaf morphogenesis; Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)
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Funding
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2021CDJZYJH-002]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31972470, 31772370, 32002100]
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Leaf morphogenetic activity determines leaf shape diversity. In this study, a transcription factor called SlBES1.8 in tomato was found to promote leaf pattern simplification by regulating the gibberellin (GA) signaling pathway. Overexpression of SlBES1.8 in tomato plants reduced sensitivity to exogenous GA treatment and increased sensitivity to a GA biosynthesis inhibitor. Furthermore, SlBES1.8 directly regulated genes involved in GA metabolism and signaling, and its activity was inhibited by the interaction with a negative regulator called SlDELLA.
Leaf morphogenetic activity determines its shape diversity. However, our knowledge of the regulatory mechanism in maintaining leaf morphogenetic capacity is still limited. In tomato, gibberellin (GA) negatively regulates leaf complexity by shortening the morphogenetic window. We here report a tomato BRI1-EMS-suppressor 1 transcription factor, SlBES1.8, that promoted the simplification of leaf pattern in a similar manner as GA functions. OE-SlBES1.8 plants exhibited reduced sensibility to exogenous GA(3) treatment whereas showed increased sensibility to the application of GA biosynthesis inhibitor, paclobutrazol. In line with the phenotypic observation, the endogenous bioactive GA contents were increased in OE-SlBES1.8 lines, which certainly promoted the degradation of the GA signaling negative regulator, SlDELLA. Moreover, transcriptomic analysis uncovered a set of overlapping genomic targets of SlBES1.8 and GA, and most of them were regulated in the same way. Expression studies showed the repression of SlBES1.8 to the transcriptions of two GA-deactivated genes, SlGA2ox2 and SlGA2ox6, and one GA receptor, SlGID1b-1. Further experiments confirmed the direct regulation of SlBES1.8 to their promoters. On the other hand, SlDELLA physically interacted with SlBES1.8 and further inhibited its transcriptional regulation activity by abolishing SlBES1.8-DNA binding. Conclusively, by mediating GA deactivation and signaling, SlBES1.8 greatly influenced tomato leaf morphogenesis.
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