Journal
PLANT CELL
Volume 34, Issue 10, Pages 3557-3576Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koac204
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- Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Singapore under the industry alignment fund prepositioning program
- Performance Precision Agriculture (HiPPA) system [A19E4a0101]
- Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
- Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP)
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During the process of terrestrialization, the copy numbers of plant transcription factor genes increased, allowing them to acquire new specificities and create gene regulatory networks with new functions. Through studying heat shock factor genes in a liverwort, we investigated the expansion of heat-responsive gene regulatory networks and their roles in heat responses and developmental processes.
The copy numbers of many plant transcription factor (TF) genes substantially increased during terrestrialization. This allowed TFs to acquire new specificities and thus create gene regulatory networks (GRNs) with new biological functions to help plants adapt to terrestrial environments. Through characterizing heat shock factor (HSF) genes MpHSFA1 and MpHSFB1 in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, we explored how heat-responsive GRNs widened their functions in M. polymorpha and Arabidopsis thaliana. An interspecies comparison of heat-induced transcriptomes and the evolutionary rates of HSFs demonstrated the emergence and subsequent rapid evolution of HSFB prior to terrestrialization. Transcriptome and metabolome analyses of M. polymorpha HSF-null mutants revealed that MpHSFA1 controls canonical heat responses such as thermotolerance and metabolic changes. MpHSFB1 also plays essential roles in heat responses, as well as regulating developmental processes including meristem branching and antheridiophore formation. Analysis of cis-regulatory elements revealed development- and stress-related TFs that function directly or indirectly downstream of HSFB. Male gametophytes of M. polymorpha showed higher levels of thermotolerance than female gametophytes, which could be explained by different expression levels of MpHSFA1U and MpHSFA1V on sex chromosome. We propose that the diversification of HSFs is linked to the expansion of HS responses, which enabled coordinated multicellular reactions in land plants. Functional distinctions between Heat Shock Factors A and B in Marchantia are linked to processes that were newly connected to heat-responsive gene regulatory networks in early land plants.
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