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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
卷 173, 期 1, 页码 715-727出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.01504
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31272139, 31401840]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [6154028]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2016M590157]
- Special Fund for Agroscientific Research in the Public Interest [201203075, 201303093]
- Beijing Municipal Education Commission [CEFF-PXM2016_014207_000038]
- Key Labs Nutrition and Physiology for Horticultural Crops
- Physiology and Molecular Biology of Tree Fruit
- Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Intraspecific genetic variation is essential for the responses and adaption of plants to evolutionary challenges, such as changing environmental conditions. The development of the Earth's aerobic atmosphere has increased the demand for iron (Fe) in organisms, and Fe deficiency has become a limiting environmental factor for plant growth. Here, we demonstrate that genus Malus adapt to Fe deficiency through modification of the Iron-Regulated Transporter1 (IRT1) promoter. Specifically, an IRT1 mutant allele with a TATA-box insertion in the promoter region upstream of the coding region exhibited increased IRT1 expression. The altered IRT1 promoter is responsible for enhancing Fe uptake. Increasing the number of synthetic repeat TATA-boxes correlates with increased promoter activity. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the insertion of the TATA-box correlates with an increase in transcriptional activation via specific binding of the transcription factor IID (MDP0000939369). Taken together, these results indicate that an allelic insertion of a TATA-box in a gene promoter has allowed apple to adapt to the selective pressure posed by Fe deficiency. More broadly, this study reveals a new mechanism for enhancing gene expression to help plants adapt to different environments, providing new insights into molecular genetic divergence in plants.
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