Molecular analysis of the anthocyanin2 gene of Petunia and its role in the evolution of flower color

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1433-1444

  Quattrocchio, Francesca ^a   Wing, John ^a   Van Der Woude, Karel ^a   Souer, Erik ^a   De Vetten, Nick ^a,b   Joseph, Mol ^a   Koes, Ronald ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b AVEBE ba Research and Development   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANTHOCYANIN; EVOLUTION; FLOWERING; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCING; PLANT GENETICS;

AVES; EMBRYOPHYTA; HEXAPODA; PETUNIA; PETUNIA AXILLARIS; PETUNIA INTEGRIFOLIA;

EID: 0033177873     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.8.1433     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Alfenito, M.R., Souer, E., Goodman, C.D., Buell, R., Mol, J., Koes, R., and Walbot, V. (1998). Functional complementation of anthocaynin sequestration in the vacuole by widely divergent glutathione S-transferases. Plant Cell 10, 1135-1149.
2. Beld, M., Martin, C., Huits, H., Stuitje, A.R., and Gerats, A.G.M. (1989). Flavonoid synthesis in Petunia hybrida: Partial characterization of dihydroflavonol 4-reductase genes. Plant Mol. Biol. 13, 491-502.
3. Bradshaw, H.D., Jr., Wilbert, S.M., Otto, K.G., and Schemske, D.W. (1995). Genetic mapping of floral traits associated with reproductive isolation in monkey flowers (Mimulus). Nature 376, 762-765.
4. Coen, E.S., Carpenter, R., and Martin, C. (1986). Transposable elements generate novel spatial patterns of gene expression in Antirrhinum majus. Cell 47, 285-296.
5. Cone, K.C., Cocciolone, S.M., Burr, F.A., and Burr, B. (1993). Maize anthocyanin regulatory gene pl is a duplicate of c1 that functions in the plant. Plant Cell 5, 1795-1805.
6. Cornu, A. (1977). Systemes instables induits chez le petunia. Mut. Res. 42, 235-248.
7. Coyne, J.A. (1992). Genetics and speciation. Nature 355, 511-515.
8. de Vetten, N., Quattrocchio, F., Mol, J., and Koes, R. (1997). The an11 locus controlling flower pigmentation in petunia encodes a novel WD-repeat protein conserved in yeast, plants and animals. Genes Dev. 11, 1422-1434.
9. Doebley, J., and Lukens, L. (1998). Transcriptional regulators and the evolution of plant form. Plant Cell 10, 1075-1082.
10. Doebley, J., Stec, A., and Hubbard, L. (1997). The evolution of apical dominance in maize. Nature 386, 485-488.
11. Gerats, A.G.M., Huits, H., Vrijlandt, E., Maraña, C., Souer, E., and Beld, M. (1990). Molecular characterization of a nonautonomous transposable element (dTph1) of petunia. Plant Cell 2, 1121-1128.
12. Goff, S.A., Cone, K.C., and Chandler, V.L. (1992). Functional analysis of the transcription activator encoded by the maize B-gene: Evidence for a direct functional interaction between two classes of regulatory proteins. Genes Dev. 6, 864-875.
13. Goodrich, J., Carpenter, R., and Coen, E.S. (1992). A common gene regulates pigmentation pattern in diverse plant species. Cell 68, 955-964.
14. Grotewold, E., Athma, P., and Peterson, T. (1991). Alternatively spliced products of the maize P gene encode proteins with homology to the DNA binding domain of myb-like transcription factors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 4587-4591.
15. Hanson, M.A., Gaut, B.S., Stec, A.O., Fuerstenberg, S.I., Goodman, M.M., Coe, E.H., and Doebley, J.F. (1996). Evolution of anthocyanin biosynthesis in maize kernels: The role of regulatory and enzymatic loci. Genetics 143, 1395-1407.
16. Holton, T.A., and Cornish, E.C. (1995). Genetics and biochemistry of anthocyanin biosynthesis. Plant Cell 7, 1071-1083.
17. Huits, H.S.M., Gerats, A.G.M., Kreike, M.M., Mol, J.N.M., and Koes, R.E. (1994a). Genetic control of dihydroflavonol 4-reductase gene expression in Petunia hybrida. Plant J. 6, 295-310.
18. Huits, H.S.M., Koes, R.E., Wijsman, H.J.W., and Gerats, A.G.M. (1994b). Genetic characterization of Act1 the activator of a nonautonomous transposable element from Petunia hybrida. Theor. Appl. Genet. 91, 110-117.
19. Koes, R.E., Spelt, C.E., Mol, J.N.M., and Gerats, A.G.M. (1987). The chalcone synthase multigene family of Petunia hybrida (V30): Sequence homology, chromosomal localization and evolutionary aspects. Plant Mol. Biol. 10, 375-385.
20. Koes, R.E., Quattrocchio, F., and Mol, J.N.M. (1994). The flavonoid biosynthetic pathway in plants: Function and evolution. Bioessays 16, 123-132.
21. Kranz, H.D., Denekamp, M., Greco, R., Jin, H., Leyva, A., Meisner, R.C., Petroni, K., Urzainqui, A.B., Bevan, M., Martin, C., Smeekens, S., Tonelli, C., Paz-Ares, J., and Weisshaar, B. (1998). Towards functional characterisation of the members of the R2R3-MYB gene family from Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 16, 263-276.
22. Kroon, J., Souer, E., de Graaff, A., Xue, Y., Mol, J., and Koes, R. (1994). Cloning and structural analysis of the anthocyanin pigmentation locus Rt of Petunia hybrida: Characterization of insertion sequences in two mutant alleles. Plant J. 5, 69-80.
23. Kunze, R., Saedler, H., and Loennig, W.-E. (1997). Plant transposable elements. Adv. Bot. Res. 27, 331-469.
24. Lloyd, A.M., Walbot, V., and Davis, R.W. (1992). Arabidopsis and Nicotiana anthocyanin production activated by maize regulators R and C1. Science 258, 1773-1775.
25. Ludwig, S.R., and Wessler, S.R. (1990). Maize R gene family: Tissue specific helix-loop-helix proteins. Cell 62, 849-851.
26. Marrs, K.A., Alfenito, M.R., Lloyd, A.M., and Walbot, V. (1995). A glutathione S-transferase involved in vacuolar transfer encoded by the maize gene Bronze-2. Nature 375, 397-400.
27. Martin, C., and Gerats, T. (1993). The control of pigment biosynthesis genes during petal development. Plant Cell 5, 1253-1264.
28. Martin, C., and Paz-Ares, J. (1997). MYB transcription factors in plants. Trends Genet. 13, 67-73.
29. Martin, C., Prescott, A., Mackay, S., Bartlett, J., and Vrijlandt, E. (1991). Control of anthocyanin biosynthesis in flowers of Antirrhinum majus. Plant J. 1, 37-49.
30. Mol, J., Grotewold, E., and Koes, R. (1998). How genes paint flowers and seeds. Trends Plant Sci. 3, 212-217.
31. Mooney, M., Desnos, T., Harrison, K., Jones, J., Carpenter, R., and Coen, E. (1995). Altered regulation of tomato and tobacco pigmentation genes caused by the delila gene of Antirrhinum. Plant J. 7, 333-339.
32. Moyano, E., Martínez-Garcia, J.F., and Martin, C. (1996). Apparent redundancy in myb gene function provides gearing for the control of flavonoid biosynthesis in Antirrhinum flowers. Plant Cell 8, 1519-1532.
33. Paz-Ares, J., Ghosal, D., Wienand, U., Peterson, P.A., and Saedler, H. (1987). The regulatory C1 locus of Zea mays encodes a protein with homology to myb proto-oncogene products and with structural similarities to transcriptional activators. EMBO J. 6, 3553-3558.
34. Quattrocchio, F., Wing, J.F., Leppen, H.T.C., Mol, J.N.M., and Koes, R.E. (1993). Regulatory genes controlling anthocyanin pigmentation are functionally conserved among plant species and have distinct sets of target genes. Plant Cell 5, 1497-1512.
35. Quattrocchio, F., Wing, J.F., van der Woude, K., Mol, J.N.M., and Koes, R. (1998). Analysis of bHLH and MYB-domain proteins: Species-specific regulatory differences are caused by divergent evolution of target anthocyanin genes. Plant J. 13, 475-488.
36. Renckens, S., De Greve, H., Beltrán-Herrera, J., Toong, L.T., Deboeck, F., De Rycke, R., Van Montagu, M., and Hernalsteens, J.P. (1996). Insertion mutagenesis and study of transposable elements using a new unstable virescent seedling allele for isolation of haploid petunia lines. Plant J. 10, 533-544.
37. Sablowski, R.W.M., Moyano, E., Culianez-Macia, F.A., Schuch, W., Martin, C., and Bevan, M. (1994). A flower specific myb gene activates transcription of phenylpropanoid biosynthetic genes. EMBO J. 13, 128-137.
38. Sainz, M., Grotewold, E., and Chandler, V.L. (1997). Evidence for direct activation of an anthocyanin promoter by the maize C1 protein and comparison of DNA binding by related Myb domain proteins. Plant Cell 9, 611-625.
39. Snowden, K.C., and Napoli, C.A. (1998). Psl: A novel Spm-like transposable element from Petunia hybrida. Plant J. 14, 43-54.
40. Solano, R., Nieto, C., Avila, J., Cañas, L., Diaz, I., and Paz-Ares, J. (1995). Dual DNA binding specificity of a petal epidermis-specific MYB transcription factor (Myb.Ph3) from Petunia hybrida. EMBO J. 14, 1773-1784.
41. Souer, E., Quattrocchio, F., de Vetten, N., Mol, J.N.M., and Koes, R.E. (1995). A general method to isolate genes tagged by a high copy number transposable element. Plant J. 7, 677-685.
42. Souer, E., van der Krol, A.R., Kloos, D., Spelt, C., Bliek, M., Mol, J., and Koes, R. (1998). Genetic control of branching pattern and floral identity during Petunia inflorescence development. Development 125, 733-742.
43. Srinivasan, M.V., Zhang, S.W., and Zhu, H. (1998). Honeybees link sights to smells. Nature 396, 637-638.
44. van Hoof, A., and Green, P.J. (1996). Premature nonsense codons decrease the stability of phytohemagglutinin mRNA in a position-dependent manner. Plant J. 10, 415-424.
45. van Houwelingen, A., Souer, E., Spelt, C., Kloos, D., Mol, J., and Koes, R. (1998). Analysis of flower pigmentation mutants generated by random transposon mutagenesis in Petunia hybrida. Plant J. 13, 39-50.
46. van Houwelingen, A., Souer, E., Mol, J., and Koes, R.E. (1999). Epigenetic interactions among three dTph1 transposons in two homologous chromosomes activate a new excision-repair mechanism in petunia. Plant Cell 11, 1319-1336.
47. van Tunen, A.J., Mur, L.A., Recourt, K., Gerats, A.G.M., and Mol, J.N.M. (1991). Regulation and manipulation of flavonoid gene expression in anthers of petunia: The molecular basis of the po mutation. Plant Cell 3, 39-48.
48. Vickery, R.K., Jr. (1992). Pollinator preferences for yellow, orange and red flowers of Mimulus verbenaceus and M. cardinalis. Great Basin Naturalist 52, 145-148.
49. Weisshaar, B., and Jenkins, G.I. (1998). Phenylpropanoid biosynthesis and its regulation. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 1, 251-257.
50. Wijsman, H.J.W. (1982). On the interrelationships of certain species of petunia. I. Taxonomic notes on the parental species of Petunia hybrida. Acta Bot. Neerl. 31, 477-490.
51. Wijsman, H.J.W. (1983). On the interrelationships of certain species of petunia. II. Experimental data: Crosses between different taxa. Acta Bot. Neerl. 32, 97-107.
52. Williams, C.E., and Grotewold, E. (1997). Differences between plant and animal Myb domains are fundamental for DNA binding activity and chimeric Myb domains have novel DNA-binding specificities. J. Biol. Chem. 272, 563-571.