Chloroplasts prevent precocious flowering through a GOLDEN2-LIKE–B-BOX DOMAIN PROTEIN module
作者机构:Department of Life SciencesKorea UniversitySeoul 02841Republic of Korea
出 版 物:《Plant Communications》 (植物通讯(英文))
年 卷 期:2023年第4卷第3期
页 面:215-227页
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学科分类:0710[理学-生物学] 071001[理学-植物学] 07[理学]
主 题:Arabidopsis thaliana BBX chloroplast flowering GLK retrograde signaling
摘 要:The timing of flowering is tightly controlled by signals that integrate environmental and endogenous *** produced by carbon fixation in the chloroplast are a crucial endogenous cue for floral *** also convey information directly to the nucleus through retrograde signaling to control plant growth and ***,we show that mutants defective in chlorophyll biosynthesis and chloroplast development flowered early,especially under long-day conditions,although low sugar accumulation was seen in some *** treated with the bleaching herbicide norflurazon also flowered early,suggesting that chloroplasts have a role in floral *** retrograde signaling mutants,the golden2-like 1(glk1)glk2 double mutants showed early flowering under long-day *** early flowering was completely suppressed by constans(co)and flowering locus t(ft)*** vascular-specific knockdown of both GLK1 and GLK2 phenocopied the glk1 glk2 ***1 and GLK2 repress flowering by directly activating the expression of B-BOX DOMAIN PROTEIN 14(BBX14),BBX15,and BBX16 via CCAATC cis-elements in the BBX ***14/15/16 physically interact with CO in the nucleus,and expression of BBXs hampered CO-mediated FT *** knockdown of BBX14/15/16 by artificial miRNA(35S::amiR-BBX14/15/16)caused early flowering with increased FT transcript levels,whereas BBX overexpression caused late *** of glk1/2 and 35S::amiR-BBX14/15/16 plants was insensitive to norflurazon *** these observations together,we propose that the GLK1/2-BBX14/15/16 module provides a novel mechanism explaining how the chloroplast represses flowering to balance plant growth and reproductive development.