Project description:This study investigated the effect of autophagy on flowering time in rice. Results provide important information of the response of flowering time to autophagy, such as specific flowerig time genes, up- or down-regulated specific flowering time functions.
Project description:Repressive epigenetic modification histone H3 lysine 27 tri-methylation (H3K27me3) marks many agronomically important genes in plants. However, H3K27me3-associated three-dimensional (3D) genome architecture and its regulatory functions in rice flowering time remain unclear. In this study, we map H3K27me3-associated genome topology using long-read ChIA-PET and reveal extensive chromatin loops among H3K27me3-marked regions in different rice varieties and tissues. Multiple H3K27me3-associated chromatin loops usually tether together and further form repressive chromatin interacting domains (RIDs), which provide structural bases for the regulation of the co-modification and co-expression of interacting genes. Surprisingly, we identified extensive chromatin loops between the rice florigen genes Hd3a and RFT1, and frequent chromatin interactions between the positive flowering regulator Ehd1 on the chromosome 10 and Hd3a/ RFT1 loci on the chromosome 6. These results suggest that flowering genes might form a Ehd1-Hd3a/RFT1-centered spatial gene cluster in rice. We also demonstrate the flowering regulator protein complexes comprising Ghd7, Ghd8, and Hd1 could bind to the Ehd1-Hd3a/RFT1 spatial gene cluster. In addition, liquid-liquid phase separation of Ghd7 and Hd1, as well as the essentially synchronous expression of Ehd1 and Hd3a suggest that this spatial gene cluster acts as a regulatory hub to coordinately regulates the expression of Ehd1-Hd3a. This work uncovers the frame of integrated cis and trans molecular mechanism underlying transcriptional regulation of florigen genes in rice.
Project description:Repressive epigenetic modification histone H3 lysine 27 tri-methylation (H3K27me3) marks many agronomically important genes in plants. However, H3K27me3-associated three-dimensional (3D) genome architecture and its regulatory functions in rice flowering time remain unclear. In this study, we map H3K27me3-associated genome topology using long-read ChIA-PET and reveal extensive chromatin loops among H3K27me3-marked regions in different rice varieties and tissues. Multiple H3K27me3-associated chromatin loops usually tether together and further form repressive chromatin interacting domains (RIDs), which provide structural bases for the regulation of the co-modification and co-expression of interacting genes. Surprisingly, we identified extensive chromatin loops between the rice florigen genes Hd3a and RFT1, and frequent chromatin interactions between the positive flowering regulator Ehd1 on the chromosome 10 and Hd3a/ RFT1 loci on the chromosome 6. These results suggest that flowering genes might form a Ehd1-Hd3a/RFT1-centered spatial gene cluster in rice. We also demonstrate the flowering regulator protein complexes comprising Ghd7, Ghd8, and Hd1 could bind to the Ehd1-Hd3a/RFT1 spatial gene cluster. In addition, liquid-liquid phase separation of Ghd7 and Hd1, as well as the essentially synchronous expression of Ehd1 and Hd3a suggest that this spatial gene cluster acts as a regulatory hub to coordinately regulates the expression of Ehd1-Hd3a. This work uncovers the frame of integrated cis and trans molecular mechanism underlying transcriptional regulation of florigen genes in rice.
Project description:This study aim to understand how the long and short day flowering pathways are integrated and the mechanism of photoperiod perception in rice. Trascriptome at different time points under LD and SD conditions reveal that photoperiodism in rice is controlled by the evening complex. Mutants in LUX ARRYTHMO (LUX) and EARLY FLOWERING3 (ELF3) orthologs abolish flowering. We show that light causes a rapid and sustained degradation of ELF3-1, and this response is dependent on phyB. ChIP-seq of ELF3 and LUX reveal that EC controls both LD and SD flowering pathways by directly binding and suppressing the expression of key floral repressors, including PRR7 orthologs and Ghd7.
Project description:This study aim to understand how the long and short day flowering pathways are integrated and the mechanism of photoperiod perception in rice. Trascriptome at different time points under LD and SD conditions reveal that photoperiodism in rice is controlled by the evening complex. Mutants in LUX ARRYTHMO (LUX) and EARLY FLOWERING3 (ELF3) orthologs abolish flowering. We show that light causes a rapid and sustained degradation of ELF3-1, and this response is dependent on phyB. ChIP-seq of ELF3 and LUX reveal that EC controls both LD and SD flowering pathways by directly binding and suppressing the expression of key floral repressors, including PRR7 orthologs and Ghd7.
Project description:The circadian clock enables organisms to rapidly adapt to the ever-changing environmental conditions that are caused by daily light/dark cycles. Circadian clock genes universally affect key agricultural traits, particularly flowering time. Here, we show that OsPRR37, a circadian clock gene, delays rice flowering time in an expression level-dependent manner. Using high-throughput mRNA sequencing on an OsPRR37 overexpressing transgenic line (OsPRR37-OE5) and the recipient parent Guangluai4 that contains the loss-of-function Osprr37, we identify 14,992 genes that display diurnal rhythms, which account for 52.9% of the transcriptome. Overexpressing OsPRR37 weakens the transcriptomic rhythms and alters the phases of rhythmic genes. In total, 3,210 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) are identified, among which 1,863 rhythmic DEGs show a correlation between the change of absolute amplitudes and the mean expression levels. We further reveal that OsPRR37 functions as a transcriptional repressor to repress the expression levels and amplitudes of day-phased clock genes. More importantly, OsPRR37 confers expanded regulation on the evening-phased rhythmic DEGs by repressing the morning-phased rhythmic DEGs. Further study shows that OsPRR37 expands its regulation on flowering pathways by repressing Ehd1. Thus, our results demonstrate an expanded regulation mechanism of the circadian clock on the diurnal rhythms of the transcriptome.
Project description:Proteome analysis of developing grain in indica rice "Naba" (S1) and "Puluik Arang" (S2). Ovary samples at 10 days after flowering were used.