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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 177, Issue 4, Pages 1743-1753Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1104/pp.18.00034
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFD0101002]
- Ministry of Agriculture of China for Transgenic Research [2018ZX0800988B]
- Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of CAAS
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The regulation of adaptive responses to phosphorus (P) deficiency by the microRNA399 (miR399)/PHOSPHATE2 (PHO2) pathway has been well studied in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) but not in maize (Zea mays). Here, we show that miR399 transcripts are strongly induced in maize by phosphate (Pi) deficiency. Transgenic maize plants that overexpressed MIR399b accumulated excessive amounts of P in their shoots and displayed typical Pi-toxicity phenotypes. We reannotated ZmPHO2 with an additional 1,165 bp of the 5' untranslated region. miR399-guided posttranscriptional repression of ZmPHO2 was mainly observed in the P-efficient lines. We identified Pi-deficiency-induced long-noncoding RNA1 (PILNCR1) from our strand-specific RNA libraries. Transient expression assays in Nicotiana benthamiana and maize leaf protoplasts demonstrated that PILNCR1 inhibits ZmmiR399-guided cleavage of ZmPHO2. The abundance of PILNCR1 was significantly higher in P-inefficient lines than in P-efficient lines, which is consistent with the abundance of ZmmiR399 transcripts. These results indicate that the interaction between PILNCR1 and miR399 is important for tolerance to low Pi in maize.
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