期刊
JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY
卷 64, 期 3, 页码 756-770出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13214
关键词
ARE1; barley; CRISPR/Cas9; gene editing; leaf senescence; NUE
资金
- Western Crop Genetics Alliance
- Murdoch University
- Western Australia
- Murdoch International Postgraduate Scholarship
This study found that the barley abnormal cytokinin response1 repressor 1 gene (HvARE1) plays an important role in improving nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) through gene editing. Mutant lines with HvARE1 mutations showed increased plant height, grain yield, and protein content, delayed senescence, and higher nitrogen content in shoots under low nitrogen conditions.
Nitrogen is a major determinant of grain yield and quality. As excessive use of nitrogen fertilizer leads to environmental pollution and high production costs, improving nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) is fundamental for a sustainable agriculture. Here, we dissected the role of the barley abnormal cytokinin response1 repressor 1 (HvARE1) gene, a candidate for involvement in NUE previously identified in a genome-wide association study, through natural variation analysis and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9)-mediated gene editing. HvARE1 was predominantly expressed in leaves and shoots, with very low expression in roots under low nitrogen conditions. Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of immature embryos (cv. Golden Promise) with single guide RNAs targeting HvARE1 generated 22 T-0 plants, from which four T-1 lines harbored missense and/or frameshift mutations based on genotyping. Mutant are1 lines exhibited an increase in plant height, tiller number, grain protein content, and yield. Moreover, we observed a 1.5- to 2.8-fold increase in total chlorophyll content in the flag leaf at the grain filling stage. Delayed senescence by 10-14 d was also observed in mutant lines. Barley are1 mutants had high nitrogen content in shoots under low nitrogen conditions. These findings demonstrate the potential of ARE1 in NUE improvement in barley.
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