期刊
MOLECULAR PLANT
卷 14, 期 6, 页码 1012-1023出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2021.04.012
关键词
nitrogen utilization; rice; Ghd7-ARE1; transcriptional repression; molecular breeding
资金
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China [2016YFD0100706]
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China [2016ZX08009003004]
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics [SKLPG2016A-22]
The Ghd7 gene in rice acts as a transcriptional repressor, binding directly to specific binding sites in the promoter and intron of the ARE1 gene to suppress its expression, positively regulating nitrogen utilization. These two genes display inverse oscillation expression patterns between day and night, and have undergone diversifying selection during breeding.
The genetic improvement of nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) of crops is vital for grain productivity and sustainable agriculture. However, the regulatory mechanism of NUE remains largely elusive. Here, we report that the rice Grain number, plant height, and heading date7 (Ghd7) gene genetically acts upstream of ABC1 REPRESSOR1 (ARE1), a negative regulator of NUE, to positively regulate nitrogen utilization. As a transcriptional repressor, Ghd7 directly binds to two Evening Element-like motifs in the promoter and intron 1 of ARE1, likely in a cooperative manner, to repress its expression. Ghd7 and ARE1 display diurnal expression patterns in an inverse oscillation manner, mirroring a regulatory scheme based on these two loci. Analysis of a panel of 2656 rice varieties suggests that the elite alleles of Ghd7 and ARE1 have undergone diversifying selection during breeding. Moreover, the allelic distribution of Ghd7 and ARE1 is associated with the soil nitrogen deposition rate in East Asia and South Asia. Remarkably, the combination of the Ghd7 and ARE1 elite alleles substantially improves NUE and yield performance under nitrogen-limiting conditions. Collectively, these results define a Ghd7-ARE1-based regulatory mechanism of nitrogen utilization, providing useful targets for genetic improvement of rice NUE.
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