Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 119, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115682119
Keywords
AN3; PIF7; EODFR; leaf development; cell proliferation
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- Punjab Educational Endowment Fund [PEEF/CMMS/2016/203]
- United Kingdom Research and Innovation, Biotechnology, and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/M025551/1, BB/N005147/1]
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Plants are capable of adapting to changing circumstances, including responding to red light wavelengths from nearby vegetation. This study discovered the role of PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR 7 in constraining leaf blade cell division, and identified ANGUSTIFOLIA3 as a potential target. The research also found that PIF7 and AN3 exert antagonistic control over gene expression through common promoter motifs.
Plants are agile, plastic organisms able to adapt to everchanging circumstances. Responding to far-red (FR) wavelengths from nearby vegetation, shade-intolerant species elicit the adaptive shade-avoidance syndrome (SAS), characterized by elongated petioles, leaf hyponasty, and smaller leaves. We utilized end-ofday FR (EODFR) treatments to interrogate molecular processes that underlie the SAS leaf response. Genetic analysis established that PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR 7 (PIF7) is required for EODFR-mediated constraint of leaf blade cell division, while EODFR messenger RNA sequencing data identified ANGUSTIFOLIA3 (AN3) as a potential PIF7 target. We show that PIF7 can suppress AN3 transcription by directly interacting with and sequestering AN3. We also establish that PIF7 and AN3 impose antagonistic control of gene expression via common cis-acting promoter motifs in several cell-cycle regulator genes. EODFR triggers the molecular substitution of AN3 to PIF7 at G-box/PBE-box promoter regions and a switch from promotion to repression of gene expression.
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