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A. T. Eprintsev N. V. Selivanova D. N. Fedorin S. S. Bashkin E. A. Selezneva I. V. Dadakina S. Machmud Ali 《Biochemistry (Moscow) Supplemental Series A: Membrane and Cell Biology》2012,6(4):310-313
The regulation of succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) activity and its gene expression by the phytochrome system has been demonstrated: red light (660 nm) reduces the SDH activity and the level of expression of the sdh1-2 gene. At the same time, the content of calcium cations in the nuclear fraction increases; it seems to be one of the mechanisms of phytochrome signal transduction in plant cells. Far-red light (730 nm) had opposite effects, i.e., increased SDH activity and the level of expression of the sdh1-2 gene. The data suggest that the SDH activity can be regulated at the level of expression in the green leaves of Zea mays by the phytochrome system with the involvement of calcium ions as a signal transduction messenger. 相似文献
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Xiaoping Chen Zhangying Wang Jianhua Wang Maoyan Wang Li Zhao Guoying Wang 《Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture》2007,88(1):11-20
ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGPase) represents a key regulatory step in starch synthesis. A 0.9 kb of 5′ flanking region
preceding Brittle2 gene, encoding the small subunit of maize endosperm AGPase, was cloned from maize genome and its expression pattern was studied
via the expression of β-glucuronidase (GUS) gene in transgenic tobacco. Analysis of GUS activities showed that the 0.9 kb
fragment flanking Brittle2 gene was sufficient for driving the seed-preferred expression of the reporter gene. The activity of the 0.9 kb 5′ flanking
fragment was compared with that of the tandem promoter region from a zein gene (zE19, encoding a maize 19 kDa zein protein). The results indicated that both promoters were seed-preferred in a dicotyledonous
system as tobacco and the activity of zE19 promoter was three to fourfold higher than that of the 0.9 kb fragment flanking Brittle2 gene in transgenic tobacco seeds. At the same time, zE19-driven GUS gene expressed earlier than Brittle2 promoter during seed development. Histochemical location of GUS activity indicated that both promoters showed high expression
in embryos, which is different from similar promoters tested in maize. 相似文献
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Jung Eun Hwang Joon Ki Hong Ji Hyun Je Kyun Oh Lee Dool Yi Kim Sang Yeol Lee Chae Oh Lim 《Plant cell reports》2009,28(11):1623-1632
Phytocystatins are cysteine proteinase inhibitors in plants that are implicated in the endogenous regulation of protein turnover
and defense mechanisms against insects and pathogens. A cDNA encoding a phytocystatin called AtCYS6 (Arabidopsis thaliana phytocystatin6) has been isolated. We show that AtCYS6 is highly expressed in dry seeds and seedlings and that it also accumulates
in flowers. The persistence of AtCYS6 protein expression in seedlings was promoted by abscisic acid (ABA), a seed germination
and post-germination inhibitory phytohormone. This finding was made in transgenic plants bearing an AtCYS6 promoter–β-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter construct, where we found that expression from the AtCYS6 promoter persisted after ABA treatment but was reduced under control conditions and by gibberellin4+7 (GA4+7) treatment during the germination and post-germinative periods. In addition, constitutive over-expression of AtCYS6 retarded germination and seedling growth, whereas these were enhanced in an AtCYS6 knock-out mutant (cys6-2). Additionally, cysteine proteinase activities stored in seeds were inhibited by AtCYS6 in transgenic Arabidopsis. From these data, we propose that AtCYS6 expression is enhanced by the germination inhibitory phytohormone ABA and that it participates in the control of germination
rate and seedling growth by inhibiting the activity of stored cysteine proteinases. 相似文献
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The vhb gene encoding Vitreoscilla haemoglobin (VHb) was transferred to barley with the aim of studying the role of oxygen availability in germination and growth.
Previous findings indicate that VHb expression improves the efficiency of energy generation during oxygen-limited growth,
and germination is known to be an energy demanding growth stage during which the embryos also suffer from oxygen deficiency.
When subjected to oxygen deficiency, the roots of vhb-expressing barley plants showed a smaller increase in alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) activity than those of the control plants.
This indicates that VHb plants experienced less severe oxygen deficiency than the control plants, possibly due to the ability
of VHb to substitute ADH for recycling NADH and maintaining glycolysis. In contrast to previous findings, we found that constitutive
vhb expression did not improve the germination rate of barley kernels in any of the conditions studied. In some cases, vhb expression even slowed down germination slightly. VHb production also appeared to restrict root formation in young seedlings.
The adverse effects of VHb on germination and root growth may be related to its ability to scavenge nitric oxide (NO), an
important signal molecule in both seed germination and root formation. Because NO has both cytotoxic and stimulating properties,
the effect of vhb expression in plants may depend on the level and role of endogenous NO in the conditions studied. VHb production also affected
the levels of endogenous barley haemoglobin, which may explain the relatively moderate effects of VHb in this study. 相似文献
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In vitro culture is an important aid for ex situ conservation of rare, endemic or threatened plants. In this work, we establish an efficient method for the seed germination,
seedling development, and axillary shoot propagation of Centaurea zeybekii Wagenitz. The seeds, collected from a wild population, were surface sterilised and cultured on various in vitro germination media. The effects of photoperiod and temperature on seed germination were also investigated. Germinations were
obtained after 6 weeks in culture and the radicle emergence was evaluated as a main indicator. A high frequency of germination
was obtained on distilled water supplemented with vitamines and 1 mg/L GA3. Although the seed germination frequencies were not affected by photoperiod, the highest germination frequency was obtained
at 24 ± 2°C. A high frequency of axillary shoot proliferation was produced on MS medium supplemented with 1 mg/L BA. Then,
the axillary shoots were separated and transferred to MS medium with or without plant growth regulators for rooting. Rhizogenezis
was promoted after 6 weeks only in MS and 1/2 MS media containing 0.5 mg/L IBA. The rooting process was very slow and the
percentage of shoot rooting was also very low (15%).
The present study not only enables reinforcement of wild plant populations using ex situ growth of individuals, but it also helps to large number of aseptic seedling to use it in clonaly micropropagation studies. 相似文献
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Juan A. Delgado José M. Serrano Francisco López Francisco J. Acosta 《Plant Ecology》2008,197(2):269-276
The germination response of different sized seeds from individuals of a Mediterranean fire-prone shrub (Cistus ladanifer) was investigated in relation to pre-germination heating. A control (no heating), a low temperature during a short exposure
time (50°C during 5 min), a high temperature during a short exposure time (100°C during 5 min) and a high temperature during
a long exposure time (100°C during 15 min) were applied to seeds from different individual plants with different mean seed
weight. These pre-germination treatments resemble natural germination scenarios for the studied species, absence of fire,
low intensity pasture fire, typical Mediterranean shrub fire, and severe fire with high fuel load. Mean seed weight only showed
a marginally significant positive correlation with the proportion of germinated seeds whatever the pre-germination treatment.
These results suggest that seed dormancy is unrelated to seed size and that under the experimental conditions used in this
study, the effect of seed size on seed germination is low. Nevertheless, larger seeds could be favoured in natural conditions,
especially under the high competition scenario which arise after wildfires. Control seeds showed a negative correlation between
seed size and germination velocity suggesting that lighter seeds could take advantage from early germination in recruitment
events in the absence of wildfires. Nevertheless, even the lower pre-germination heating treatment turns this correlation
in not significant, suggesting a strong selection pressure (unrelated to seed size) for early germination after fire events.
In our study, different sized seeds of C. ladanifer seem to perform better under different germination scenarios suggesting that seed size variation could be maintained by the
alternation of recruitments without wildfires and recruitments after wildfire events. 相似文献
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Zuping Cao Zhiwei Jia Yongjun Liu Meng Wang Jinfeng Zhao Jun Zheng Guoying Wang 《Molecular biology reports》2010,37(2):1089-1097
A small HSP gene, ZmsHSP, was isolated from Zea mays. Sequence analysis revealed that the open reading frame of ZmsHSP was 477 bp and that it encodes a protein composed of 159 amino acid residues with a calculated molecular mass of 18.17 kD
and a predicated isoelectric point (pI) of 5.63. ZmsHSP contains a CS domain (p23-like domain) and shares similarity with
the HSP90 co-chaperone p23. The expression level of ZmsHSP was different among various tissues with the highest expression in leaves and the lowest in silks. Results also showed that
the expression of ZmsHSP in maize was significantly up-regulated by dehydration. Transgenic Arabidopsis plants overexpressing ZmsHSP under the control of the CaMV 35S promoter had lower endogenous cytokinin content and showed more sensitivity to cytokinin
during the germination and early seedling stage than wild-type plants, suggesting that ZmsHSP might has a function in cytokinin response in Zea mays. 相似文献
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A Sebacinales species was recovered from a clone library made from a pooled rhizosphere sample of Nicotiana attenuata plants from 14 native populations. Axenic cultures of the related species, Piriformospora indica and Sebacina vermifera, were used to examine their effects on plant performance. Inoculation of N. attenuata seeds with either fungus species stimulated seed germination and increased growth and stalk elongation. S. vermifera inoculated plants flowered earlier, produced more flowers and matured more seed capsules than did non-inoculated plants. Jasmonate treatment during rosette-stage growth, which slows growth and elicits herbivore resistance traits, erased differences in vegetative, but not reproductive performance resulting from S. vermifera inoculation. Total nitrogen and phosphorous contents did not differ between inoculated and control plants, suggesting that the performance benefits of fungal inoculation did not result from improvements in nutritional status. Since the expression of trypsin proteinase inhibitors (TPI), defensive proteins which confer resistance to attack from Manduca sexta larvae, incur significant growth and fitness costs for the plant, we examined the effect of S. vermifera inoculation on herbivore resistance and TPI activity. After 10 days of feeding on S. vermifera-inoculated plants, larval mass was 46% higher and TPI activity was 48% lower than that on non-inoculated plants. These results suggest that Sebacina spp. may interfere with defense signaling and allow plants to increase growth rates at the expense of herbivore resistance mediated by TPIs. 相似文献
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DWF4 encodes a rate-limiting mono-oxygenase that mediates 22α-hydroxylation reactions in the BR biosynthetic pathway and it is
the target gene in the BR feedback loop. Knockout of DWF4 results in a dwarfed phenotype and other severe defects in Arabidopsis. Here we report on the isolation of the ZmDWF4 gene in maize. Sequence analysis revealed that the open reading frame of ZmDWF4 was 1,518 bp, which encodes a protein composed of 505 amino acid residues with a calculated molecular mass of 57.6 kD and
a predicated isoelectric point (pI) of 9.54. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that ZmDWF4 was very close to the Arabidopsis DWF4. In young maize seedlings, the expression of ZmDWF4 in shoots was much higher than that in roots. The highest expression of ZmDWF4 was observed in husk leaves and the lowest in silks during flowering stage. The expression of ZmDWF4 in maize was significantly down regulated by exogenous brassinolide. A heterogeneous complementary experiment demonstrated
that the defects of three Arabidopsis
DWF4 mutants could be rescued by constitutive expression of ZmDWF4, with leaf expandability, inflorescence stem heights and fertile capabilities all restored to normal levels. Increases in
seed and branch number as well as the height of florescence stem were observed in the over-expressed transformants. These
findings suggest that ZmDWF4 may be an ortholog gene of Arabidopsis DWF4 and responsible for BR biosynthesis in maize.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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A 1.6 kb upstream regulatory sequence (GenBank accession no. AF472487) of plasma membrane aquaporinBnPIP1 gene fromBrassica napus was obtained by genomic walking based on ligation-mediated PCR method. Sequence analysis indicated that this fragment contained
seed germination specific and vascular specific sequences. The 1.6 kb upstream sequence and various 5′ end deleted sequences
were fused withuidA gene and constructed into plant expression vectors which were used for tobacco transformation. GUS histochemical assay showed
that the 1.6 kb fragment had high levels of promoter activity and the GUS staining was mainly distributed in vascular systems
and tissues with rapid expanding and proliferating cells. Promoter deletion analysis showed that the deletion of -1610 — -1030
bp resulted in a dramatic reduction in GUS activity. It was assumed that there might be cis-acting element(s) existing in
this region. Whereas, the region located at -1030 — -902 bp strongly inhibited the expression ofgus and probably contained negative regulatory element(s). The fragment of -902 — -19 bp could also directgus expression at high level. 相似文献
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Differentially expressed genes associated with dormancy or germination of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Arabidopsis thaliana</Emphasis> seeds 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Differential display analysis using dormant and non-dormant Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh seeds resulted in a set of genes that were associated with either dormancy or germination. Expression of the germination-associated genes AtRPL36B and AtRPL27B, encoding two ribosomal proteins, was undetectable in the dry seed, low in dormant seed, and high under conditions that allowed completion of germination. Expression of these genes was also found to be light-regulated and to correlate with germination speed. Expression of the dormancy-associated genes ATS2 and ATS4, encoding a caleosin-like protein and a protein similar to a low-temperature-induced protein respectively, was high in the dry seed and decreased during germination. Expression of ATS2 and ATS4 was high in primary and secondary dormant seed but low in after-ripened or chilled seed. The expression of both genes was also light-regulated, but no relationship with temperature-dependent germination speed was found. 相似文献
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Jia Y Gu H Wang X Chen Q Shi S Zhang J Ma L Zhang H Ma H 《Molecular biology reports》2012,39(3):2337-2345
F-box protein family has been found to play important roles in plant development and abiotic stress responses via the ubiquitin
pathway. In this study, an F-box gene CarF-box1 (for Cicer arietinum F-box gene 1, Genbank accession no. GU247510) was isolated based on a cDNA library constructed with chickpea seedling leaves
treated by polyethylene glycol. CarF-box1 encoded a putative protein with 345 amino acids and contained no intron within genomic DNA sequence. CarF-box1 is a KFB-type F-box protein, having a conserved F-box domain in the N-terminus and a Kelch repeat domain in the C-terminus.
CarF-box1 was localized in the nucleus. CarF-box1 exhibited organ-specific expression and showed different expression patterns during seed development and germination processes,
especially strongly expressed in the blooming flowers. In the leaves, CarF-box1 could be significantly induced by drought stress and slightly induced by IAA treatment, while in the roots, CarF-box1 could be strongly induced by drought, salinity and methyl jasmonate stresses. Our results suggest that CarF-box1 encodes an F-box protein and may be involved in various plant developmental processes and abiotic stress responses. 相似文献
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Supaporn Hasthanasombut Valentine Ntui Kanyaratt Supaibulwatana Masahiro Mii Ikuo Nakamura 《Plant biotechnology reports》2010,4(1):75-83
Glycine betaine has been reported as an osmoprotectant compound conferring tolerance to salinity and osmotic stresses in plants.
We previously found that the expression of betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 gene (OsBADH1), encoding a key enzyme for glycine betaine biosynthesis pathway, showed close correlation with salt tolerance of rice. In
this study, the expression of the OsBADH1 gene in transgenic tobacco was investigated in response to salt stress using a transgenic approach. Transgenic tobacco plants
expressing the OsBADH1 gene were generated under the control of a promoter from the maize ubiquitin gene. Three homozygous lines of T2 progenies with single transgene insert were chosen for gene expression analysis. RT-PCR and western blot analysis results
indicated that the OsBADH1 gene was effectively expressed in transgenic tobacco leading to the accumulation of glycine betaine. Transgenic lines demonstrated
normal seed germination and morphology, and normal growth rates of seedlings under salt stress conditions. These results suggest
that the OsBADH1 gene could be an excellent candidate for producing plants with osmotic stress tolerance. 相似文献
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Epigenetic modifications of histone play important roles for regulation of cell activity, such as cell division, cell death,
and cell differentiation. A SET domain consisting of about 130 amino acids has lysine methyltransferase activity in the presence
of the cosubstrate S-adenosyl-methionine. More than 60 SET domain-containing proteins have been predicted in various organisms.
One of them, the SMYD family genes which contain a SET domain and a zinc-finger MYND domain are reported to regulate cell
cycle and muscle formation. Here we examined the expression and function of smyd1 and 2 in Xenopus. smyd1 and 2 were expressed in various muscle tissues. While smyd1 expression was observed mainly in cardiac muscle and skeletal muscle, smyd2 expression was done abundantly in skeletal muscle and face region. Moreover, by loss-of-function experiments using antisense
morpholino oligonucleotides, it was suggested that smyd1 and 2 related to muscle cells differentiation. 相似文献