Efficient production of male and female sterile plants by expression of a chimeric repressor in Arabidopsis and rice

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 325-332

  Mitsuda, Nobutaka ^a,b   Hiratsu, Keiichiro ^a,b   Todaka, Daisuke ^c   Nakashima, Kazuo ^c   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^b,c,d   Ohme Takagi, Masaru ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

AGAMOUS; AP3; CRES T; LEAFY; Male sterile; Repressor

Indexed keywords

APETALA 3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS AGAMOUS PROTEIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; LFY PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; MYB26 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT INFERTILITY; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGAMOUS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT INFERTILITY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; DICOTYLEDONEAE; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 33645518823     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2006.00184.x     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Becker D. 1990 Binary vectors which allow the exchange of plant selectable markers and reporter genes. Nucleic Acids Res. 18 203.
2. Dawson J. Sozen E. Vizir I. Van Waeyenberge S. Wilson Z.A. Mulligan B.J. 1999 Characterization and genetic mapping of a mutation (ms35) which prevents anther dehiscence in Arabidopsis thaliana by affecting secondary wall thickening in the endothecium. New Phytol. 144 213 222.
3. Fujita M. Fujita Y. Maruyama K. Seki M. Hiratsu K. Ohme-Takagi M. Tran L.S. Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K. Shinozaki K. 2004 A dehydration-induced NAC protein, RD26, is involved in a novel ABA-dependent stress-signaling pathway. Plant J. 39 863 876.
4. Goto F. Yoshihara T. Shigemoto N. Toki S. Takaiwa F. 1999 Iron fortification of rice seed by the soybean ferritin gene. Nat. Biotechnol. 17 282 286.
5. Guan X. Stege J. Kim M. Dahmani Z. Fan N. Heifetz P. Barbas C.F. Briggs S.P. 2002 Heritable endogenous gene regulation in plants with designed polydactyl zinc finger transcription factors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99 13296 13 301.
6. Hiratsu K. Ohta M. Matsui K. Ohme-Takagi M. 2002 The SUPERMAN protein is an active repressor whose carboxy-terminal repression domain is required for the development of normal flowers. FEBS Lett. 514 351 354.
7. Hiratsu K. Matsui K. Koyama T. Ohme-Takagi M. 2003 Dominant repression of target genes by chimeric repressors that include the EAR motif, a repression domain, in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 34 733 739.
8. Hiratsu K. Mitsuda N. Matsui K. Ohme-Takagi M. 2004 Identification of the minimal repression domain of SUPERMAN shows that the DLELRL hexapeptide is both necessary and sufficient for repression of transcription in Arabidopsis. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 321 172 178.
9. Huala E. Sussex I.M. 1992 LEAFY interacts with floral homeotic genes to regulate Arabidopsis floral development. Plant Cell 4 901 913.
10. Jack T. Brockman L.L. Meyerowitz E.M. 1992 The homeotic gene APETALA3 of Arabidopsis thaliana encodes a MADS box and is expressed in petals and stamens. Cell 68 683 697.
11. Jack T. Fox G.L. Meyerowitz E.M. 1994 Arabidopsis homeotic gene APETALA3 ectopic expression: transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation determine floral organ identity. Cell 76 703 716.
12. Mariani C. Beuckeleer M.D. Truettner J. Leemans J. Goldberg R.B. 1990 Induction of male sterility in plants by a chimeric ribonuclease gene. Nature 347 737 741.
13. Markel H. Chandler J. Werr W. 2002 Translational fusions with the engrailed repressor domain efficiently convert plant transcription factors into dominant-negative functions. Nucleic Acids Res. 30 4709 4719.
14. Matsui K. Tanaka H. Ohme-Takagi M. 2004 Suppression of the biosynthesis of proanthocyanidin in Arabidopsis by a chimeric PAP1 repressor. Plant Biotechnol. J. 2 487 494.
15. Matsui K. Hiratsu K. Koyama T. Tanaka H. Ohme-Takagi M. 2005 A chimeric AtMYB23 repressor induces hairy roots, elongation of leaves and stems, and inhibition of the deposition of mucilage on seed coats in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol. 46 147 155.
16. McElroy D. Zhang W. Cao J. Wu R. 1990 Isolation of an efficient actin promoter for use in rice transformation. Plant Cell 2 163 171.
17. Nagasawa N. Miyoshi M. Sano Y. Satoh H. Hirano H. Sakai H. Nagato Y. 2003 SUPERWOMAN1 and DROOPING LEAF genes control floral organ identity in rice. Development 130 705 718.
18. Perez-Prat E. van Lookeren Campagne M.M. 2002 Hybrid seed production and the challenge of propagating male-sterile plants. Trends Plant Sci. 7 199 203.
19. Schultz E.A. Haughn G.W. 1991 LEAFY, a homeotic gene that regulates inflorescence development in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 3 771 781.
20. Steiner-Lange S. Unte U.S. Eckstein L. Yang C. Wilson Z.A. Schmelzer E. Dekker K. Saedler H. 2003 Disruption of Arabidopsis thalianaMYB26 results in male sterility due to non-dehiscent anthers. Plant J. 34 519 528.
21. Tohge T. Matsui K. Ohme-Takagi M. Yamazaki M. Saito K. 2005 Enhanced radical scavenging activity of genetically modified Arabidopsis seeds. Biotechnol. Lett. 27 297 303.
22. Weigel D. Alvarez J. Smyth D.R. Yanofsky M.F. Meyerowitz E.M. 1992 LEAFY controls floral meristem identity in Arabidopsis. Cell 69 843 859.
23. Xiao H. Wang Y. Liu D. Wang W. Li X. Zhao X. Xu J. Zhai W. Zhu L. 2003 Functional analysis of the rice AP3 homologue OsMADS16 by RNA interference. Plant Mol. Biol. 52 957 966.
24. Yanofsky M.F. Ma H. Bowman J.L. Drews G.N. Feldmann K.A. Meyerowitz E.M. 1990 The protein encoded by the Arabidopsis homeotic gene agamous resembles transcription factors. Nature 346 35 39.