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Conserved Functions of Arabidopsis and Rice CC-Type Glutaredoxins in Flower Development and Pathogen Response

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Glutaredoxins (GRXs) are ubiquitous oxidoreductases that play a crucial role in response to oxidative stress by reducing disulfides in various organisms. In planta, three different GRX classes have been identified according to their active site motifs. CPYC and CGFS classes are found in all organisms, whereas the CC-type class is specific for higher land plants. Recently, two Arabidopsis CC-type GRXs, ROXY1 and ROXY2, were shown to exert crucial functions in petal and anther initiation and differentiation. To analyze the function of CC-type GRXs in the distantly related monocots, we iso-lated and characterized OsROXY1 and OsROXY2-two rice homologs of ROXY1. Both genes are expressed in vegetative and reproductive stages. Although rice flower morphology is distinct from eudicots, OsROXY1/2 floral expression patterns are similar to their Arabidopsis counterparts ROXY1/2. Complementation experiments demonstrate that OsROXY1 and OsROXY2 can fully rescue the roxy1 floral mutant phenotype. Overexpression of OsROXY1, OsROXY2, and ROXY1 in Ara-bidopsis causes similar vegetative and reproductive plant developmental defects. ROXY1 and its rice homologs thus exert a conserved function during eudicot and monocot flower development. Strikingly, overexpression of these CC-type GRXs also leads to an increased accumulation of hydrogen peroxide levels and hyper-susceptibility to infection from the necrotrophic pathogen Botrytis cinerea, revealing the importance of balanced redox processes in flower organ develop-ment and pathogen defence.

ROXY1glutaredoxinArabidopsisriceflower developmentpathogen defenceBotrytis cinerea

Zhen Wang、Shuping Xing、Rainer P. Birkenbihl、Sabine Zachgo

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Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Molecular Genetics, 50829 Cologne, Germany

School of Biological Sciences/Plant Science Initiative, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA

Botany Department, University of Osnabrück, 40969 Osnabrück, Germany

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Microbe Interactions, 50829 Cologne, Germany

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to S.ZDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to S.Z

SFB635SZ259/4

2009

分子植物(英文版)
中科院上海生命科学研究院植物生理生态所 中国植物生理学会

分子植物(英文版)

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影响因子:0.659
ISSN:1674-2052
年,卷(期):2009.2(2)
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