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- Title
A Novel DUF569 Gene Is a Positive Regulator of the Drought Stress Response in Arabidopsis.
- Authors
Nabi, Rizwana Begum Syed; Tayade, Rupesh; Hussain, Adil; Adhikari, Arjun; Lee, In-Jung; Loake, Gary J.; Yun, Byung-Wook; Wang, Richard R. -C.
- Abstract
In the last two decades, global environmental change has increased abiotic stress on plants and severely affected crops. For example, drought stress is a serious abiotic stress that rapidly and substantially alters the morphological, physiological, and molecular responses of plants. In Arabidopsis, several drought-responsive genes have been identified; however, the underlying molecular mechanism of drought tolerance in plants remains largely unclear. Here, we report that the "domain of unknown function" novel gene DUF569 (AT1G69890) positively regulates drought stress in Arabidopsis. The Arabidopsis loss-of-function mutant atduf569 showed significant sensitivity to drought stress, i.e., severe wilting at the rosette-leaf stage after water was withheld for 3 days. Importantly, the mutant plant did not recover after rewatering, unlike wild-type (WT) plants. In addition, atduf569 plants showed significantly lower abscisic acid accumulation under optimal and drought-stress conditions, as well as significantly higher electrolyte leakage when compared with WT Col-0 plants. Spectrophotometric analyses also indicated a significantly lower accumulation of polyphenols, flavonoids, carotenoids, and chlorophylls in atduf569 mutant plants. Overall, our results suggest that novel DUF569 is a positive regulator of the response to drought in Arabidopsis.
- Subjects
DROUGHT tolerance; GLOBAL environmental change; ARABIDOPSIS; DROUGHTS; ABSCISIC acid
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021, Vol 22, Issue 10, p5316
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms22105316