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- Title
REDUCED DORMANCY5 Encodes a Protein Phosphatase 2C That Is Required for Seed Dormancy in Arabidopsis.
- Authors
Xiang, Yong; Nakabayashi, Kazumi; Ding, Jia; He, Fei; Bentsink, Leónie; Soppe, Wim J.J.
- Abstract
Seed dormancy determines germination timing and contributes to crop production and the adaptation of natural populations to their environment. Our knowledge about its regulation is limited. In a mutagenesis screen of a highly dormant Arabidopsis thaliana line, the reduced dormancy5 (rdo5) mutant was isolated based on its strongly reduced seed dormancy. Cloning of RDO5 showed that it encodes a PP2C phosphatase. Several PP2C phosphatases belonging to clade A are involved in abscisic acid signaling and control seed dormancy. However, RDO5 does not cluster with clade A phosphatases, and abscisic acid levels and sensitivity are unaltered in the rdo5 mutant. RDO5 transcript could only be detected in seeds and was most abundant in dry seeds. RDO5 was found in cells throughout the embryo and is located in the nucleus. A transcriptome analysis revealed that several genes belonging to the conserved PUF family of RNA binding proteins, in particular Arabidopsis PUMILIO9 (APUM9) and APUM11 , showed strongly enhanced transcript levels in rdo5 during seed imbibition. Further transgenic analyses indicated that APUM9 reduces seed dormancy. Interestingly, reduction of APUM transcripts by RNA interference complemented the reduced dormancy phenotype of rdo5 , indicating that RDO5 functions by suppressing APUM transcript levels.
- Subjects
SEED dormancy; PHOSPHOPROTEIN phosphatases; RNA-binding proteins; RNA interference; SMALL interfering RNA
- Publication
Plant Cell, 2014, Vol 26, Issue 11, p4362
- ISSN
1040-4651
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1105/tpc.114.132811