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ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 217, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2023.105581
Keywords
NLP; Cucumber; Nitrate; Nitrogen use efficiency
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In this study, researchers found that CsNLP1 gene in cucumber plays an important role in nitrogen utilization. The study also revealed the regulation mechanism of CsNLP1 in cucumber growth and nitrogen assimilation.
Cucumber is one of the important vegetables cultivated in facilities in China. Due to the deterioration of soil quality in facilities and the low nitrogen use efficiency of existing varieties, it is common to pursue high yield through excessive application of nitrogen fertilizer. Improving crop nitrogen use efficiency is one of the important means to reduce nitrogen fertilizer input. Previous studies have shown that NLP (NIN-like protein) transcription factor family play an important role as transcription factors in regulating plant physiological responses to external nitrogen changes. However, there are few reports on NLPs in cucumber. Here we report that CsNLP1 is a potential candidate to improve cucumber nitrogen use ability. CsNLP1 silencing lines by virusinduced gene silencing (VIGS) showed a significant decrease in the plant biomass, chlorophyll content, nitrogen uptake, total nitrogen content, activities of NR, NIR, GDH, GOGAT and GS, and expression levels of genes involved in nitrogen assimilation and signalling under different nitrogen concentrations. In addition, transfer of CsNLP1 into Arabidopsis nlp7-1 mutant found that the phenotype, nitrate (NO3- ) content, NR activity, NIR activity, GDH activity, GOGAT activity and GS activity in transgenic lines could be restored to the wild type level after NO3 - treatment. Further study found that CsNLP1 could regulate the expression of NO3 - responsive genes such as AtNIR1, AtNIA2, AtNRT1.1 and AtGS2 in plants. Overall, our data indicated that CsNLP1 can affect plant growth, and regulate nitrate assimilation by regulating nitrogen-related genes.
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