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- Title
The cotton HD-Zip transcription factor GhHB12 regulates flowering time and plant architecture via the GhmiR157-GhSPL pathway.
- Authors
He, Xin; Wang, Tianyi; Xu, Zheng; Liu, Nian; Wang, Lichen; Hu, Qin; Luo, Xiangyin; Zhang, Xianlong; Zhu, Longfu
- Abstract
Domestication converts perennial and photoperiodic ancestral cotton to day-neutral cotton varieties, and the selection of short-season cotton varieties is one of the major objectives of cotton breeding. However, little is known about the mechanism of flowering time in cotton. Here, we report a cotton HD-ZIP I-class transcription factor (GhHB12) specifically expressed in axillary buds, which antagonisticlly interacts with GhSPL10/13 to repress the expression of GhFT, GhFUL, and GhSOC1, resulting in bushy architecture and delayed flowering under long-day conditions. We found that GhHB12-mediated ancestral upland cotton phenotypes (bushy architecture and delayed flowering) could be rescued under short-day conditions. We showed that overexpressing of GhrSPL10 partially rescues the bushy architecture and delayed flowering phenotypes, while overexpression of GhmiR157 reinforced these phenotypes in GhHB12-overexpressing plants. This study defines a regulatory module which regulates cotton architecture, phase transition and could be applied in the breeding of early maturing cotton varieties. Xin He et al. present a characterization of GhHB12, a HD-ZIP family transcription factor expressed in upland cotton axillary buds. They show that GhHB12 regulates flowering time, plant architecture and phase transition via a regulatory module that could be harnessed to improve cotton for mechanical harvesting.
- Subjects
PLANT morphology; TRANSCRIPTION factors; FLOWERING time; PLANT regulators; DOMESTICATION of plants; PLANT selection; GENE expression in plants
- Publication
Communications Biology, 2018, Vol 1, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2399-3642
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s42003-018-0234-0