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The OsSRO1c-OsDREB2B complex senses low temperatures to confer cold tolerance via direct regulation of COLD1 in rice

ABSTRACT: Cold stress is one of the major abiotic stress factors affecting rice growth and development, leading to great yield loss in the context of global climate change. Exploring superior natural variants that confer cold resistance and the underlying molecular mechanism is the major strategy to breed cold tolerant rice varieties. Here, we identified natural variations of a SIMILAR to RCD ONE (SRO) gene OsSRO1c that confers cold tolerance in rice at both seedling and booting stages. OsSRO1c interacts with transcription factor OsDREB2B and promotes its transcriptional activity by concentrating OsDREB2B into biomolecular condensates in the nucleus. The OsSRO1c-OsDREB2B complex directly sense cold stress through dynamic phase transitions in vivo and in vitro and regulate key cold response gene COLD1. Introgression of an elite haplotype of OsSRO1c into a cold susceptible indica rice can significantly increase its cold resistance ability. Thus, our work revealed a novel cold stress sensing module and provided a promising gene resource for breeding cold tolerant rice varieties.

ORGANISM(S): Oryza sativa

PROVIDER: GSE247749 | GEO | 2023/11/19

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Background: Rice grain production is susceptible to a changing environment that imposes both biotic and abiotic stress conditions. Cold episodes are becoming more frequent in the last years and directly affect rice yield in areas with a temperate climate. Rice is particularly susceptible to cold stress during the reproductive phase, especially in anthers during post-meiotic stages which, in turn, affect pollen production. However, a number of rice cultivars with a certain degree of tolerance to cold have been described, which may represent a good breeding resource for improvement of susceptible commercial varieties. Plants experiencing cold stress activate a molecular response in order to reprogram many metabolic pathways to face these hostile conditions. Results: Here we performed RNA-seq analysis using cold-stressed post-meiotic anther samples from a cold-tolerant, Erythroceros Hokkaido (ERY), and a cold-susceptible commercial cultivar Sant´Andrea (S.AND). Both cultivars displayed an early common molecular response to cold, although the changes in expression levels are much more drastic in the tolerant one. Comparing our datasets, obtained after one-night cold stress, with other similar genome-wide studies showed very few common deregulated genes, leading to the conclusion that molecular responses in cold-stressed anthers strongly depend on conditions and the duration of the cold treatments. Cold-tolerant ERY exhibits specific molecular responses related to ethylene metabolism, which appears to be activated after cold stress. On the other hand, S.AND cold-treated plants showed a general downregulation of photosystem I and II genes, supporting a role of photosynthesis and chloroplasts in cold responses in anthers, which has remained elusive. Conclusions: Our study revealed that a number of ethylene-related transcription factors, as putative master regulators of cold responses, were upregulated in ERY providing promising candidates to confer tolerance to susceptible cultivars. Our results also suggest that the photosynthesis machinery might be a good target to improve cold tolerance in anthers. In summary, our study provides valuable candidates for further analysis and molecular breeding for cold-tolerant rice cultivars.