Journal
CROP JOURNAL
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 703-717Publisher
KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2021.01.004
Keywords
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.); Senescence; Nitrogen use efficiency; NAC transcription factor; Stay-green
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- Australia Grain Research & Development Corporation Project [UMU00048]
- Murdoch University International Postgraduate Research Scholarship
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Wheat leaf senescence is a complex developmental process influenced by plant hormones and environmental factors, with direct impacts on grain yield and protein content. Early senescence is associated with high protein content, while late senescence is related to high yield. The regulation of senescence involves multiple genes and is influenced by external, internal factors, and genotypic variations.
Wheat leaf senescence is a developmental process that involves expressional changes in thousands of genes that ultimately impact grain protein content (GPC), grain yield (GY), and nitrogen use efficiency. The onset and rate of senescence are strongly influenced by plant hormones and environmental factors e.g. nitrogen availability. At maturity, decrease in nitrogen uptake could enhance N remobilization from leaves and stem to grain, eventually leading to leaf senescence. Early senescence is related to high GPC and somewhat low yield whereas late senescence is often related to high yield and somewhat low GPC. Early or late senescence is principally regulated by up and down-regulation of senescence associated genes. Integration of external and internal factors together with genotypic variation influence senescence associated genes in a developmental age dependent manner. Although regulation of genes involved in senescence has been studied in rice, Arabidopsis, maize, and currently in wheat, there are genotype-specific variations yet to explore. A major effort is needed to understand the interaction of positive and negative senescence regulators in determining the onset of senescence. In wheat, increasing attention has been paid to understand the role of positive senescence regulator, e.g. GPC-1, regulated gene network during early senescence time course. Recently, gene regulatory network involved early to late senescence time course revealed important senescence regulators. However, the known negative senescence regulator TaNAC-S gene has not been extensively studied in wheat and little is known about its value in breeding. Existing data on senescence-related transcriptome studies and gene regulatory network could effectively be used for functional study in developing nitrogen efficient wheat varieties. (C) 2021 Crop Science Society of China and Institute of Crop Science, CAAS. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
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