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Leaf Mutant 7 Encoding Heat Shock Protein OsHSP40 Regulates Leaf Size in Rice

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23084446

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rice; leaf size; heat shock protein; natural variation

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  1. Rice Industry Technology System of Henan Province [S2012-04]
  2. Rice Science and Technology Innovation Team of Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences [2022TD29]
  3. Basic Scientific Research Project of Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences [2022JC05]
  4. Science and Technology Support Program of Huzhou [2018GZ07]

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In this study, a leaf mutant with small leaf size was identified and its location on chromosome 7 was determined. The candidate gene OsHSP40 was found to be responsible for leaf size regulation in rice. The study also revealed that OsHSP40 affects leaf size by modulating vein formation and cell size/cell number.
Leaf size is an important agronomic trait directly affecting yield in rice, and thus understanding the genes determining leaf size is important in breeding. In this study, one Leaf Mutant 7 (lm7) with small leaf size was isolated using ethyl methane sulphonate (EMS) mutagenesis from the japonica Zhenggeng 1925. MutMap by whole genome resequencing of phenotypic bulks revealed that LM7 is likely located in the 133 kb region on chromosome 7 using F-2 population from a cross between lm7 and wild-type (WT) Zhenggeng 1925. The candidate gene encoding heat shock protein OsHSP40 for LM7 was functionally validated. Disruption of this gene in Oshsp40 mutants significantly reduced the leaf size compared with that of WT in rice. Microscopic examination showed that OsHSP40 modulated leaf size via regulating the veins formation and cell size/cell number. Nucleotide diversity analysis indicated that a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) variation of C to T in the coding region of OsHSP40 may cause small leaves among rice accessions. Therefore, the natural variation of OsHSP40 contributing to leaf size might be useful for rice breeding.

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