Gibberellin and the microRNA156/SlSBP module synergistically regulate tomato floral meristem activity and fruit patterning
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Project description:Most developmental processes associated with fruit patterning take place at the floral meristem (FM). Age-regulated microRNA156 (miR156) and gibberellins (GA) integrate to control flowering time, but it is unclear how GA and miR156 interplay during fruit patterning. Here, we used genetic, molecular, and imaging tools to demonstrate that GA and age synergistically control tomato reproductive development. We found that low levels of miR156-targeted SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN–LIKE (SPL/SBP) transcripts or high GA responses/levels led to enlarged FMs, defects in FM determinacy, and fruits with increased locule number. Conversely, low GA responses reduced locule number and indeterminacy, and the expression of a miR156-resistant form of SlSBP15 (rSBP15) reduces FM size by decreasing cell size and cell number. Importantly, we discovered that GA levels/responses may be partially responsible for the fruit defects observed in 156OE and rSBP15 plants. GA and miR156-targeted SlSBPs regulate classical genes associated with floral determinacy, such as CRABS CLAWa (SlCRCa), and GA and SlSBPs act synergistically with tomato CLAVATA3 (SlCLV3) to control early flower and fruit development. Our findings indicate that gibberellins and age-dependent miR156-targeted SlSBPs co-operate to regulate FM activity and locule formation, thereby offering a novel mechanism of controlling fruit patterning.
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Project description:Our results showed that 951 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were obtained to response to gibberellin treatment. The 6-h time point was an important phase in the response to exogenous gibberellin. Furthermore, the plant endogenous gibberellin, auxin, ethylene, abscisic acid, and brassinolide signaling transduction pathways were repressed after exogenous GA3 treatment. However, the DEGs (JcAHP1, JcHK3, and JcMYC2, JcMYC4) which were respectively associated with cytokinin and jasmonic acid signaling were up-regulation for 24-h time point following GA3 treatment. In addition, the floral meristem determinacy genes (JcLFY and JcSOC1) and floral organ identity genes (JcAP3, JcPI, and JcSEP1-3) were significantly up-regulated, but their negative factor (JcSVP) was down-regulated after GA3 treatment.
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2008-06-16 | E-GEOD-8739 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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2012-06-01 | GSE30259 | GEO
Project description:Brassinosteroid (BR) and gibberellin (GA) promote many similar developmental responses in plants; but their relationship remains unclear. Here we show that BR and GA act interdependently through a direct interaction between the BR-activated BZR1 and GAinactivated DELLA transcription regulators. GA promotion of cell elongation required BR signaling, whereas BR or active BZR1 can suppresssed the GA-deficient dwarf phenotype. DELLAs directly interacted with BZR1 and inhibited BZR1-DNA binding both in vitro and in vivo. Genome-wide analysis defined a BZR1-dependent GA-regulated transcriptome, which is enriched with light-regulated genes and genes involved in cell wall synthesis and photosynthesis/chloroplast. GA promotion of hypocotyl elongation requires both BZR1 and the phytochrome interacting factors (PIFs), as well as their common downstream targets PREs. The results demonstrate that GA releases DELLA-mediated inhibition of BZR1, and that the DELLA-BZR1-PIF4 interaction defines a core transcription module that mediates coordinated growth regulation by GA, BR and light signals.
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