Control of flowering time is crucial for reproductive success of cereal crops, and has a significant impact on grain yield as well as adaptation to diverse environmental conditions.Plants integrate signals from both e...Control of flowering time is crucial for reproductive success of cereal crops, and has a significant impact on grain yield as well as adaptation to diverse environmental conditions.Plants integrate signals from both environmental cues and endogenous regulatory pathways to fine-tune flowering time. The CCT domain originally described to a 43-amino acid sequence at the C-terminus of three Arabidopsis proteins, namely CONSTANS(CO),CO-LIKE, and TIMING OF CAB1(TOC1). The CCT domain-containing genes(CCT genes),which encode transcription co-factors, are the major genetic determinants that modulate flowering time, and this in turn enables plants to effectively expand their territory to take advantage of favorable habitats. Moreover, certain CCT genes have pleiotropic effects on morphological traits and confer resistance/tolerance to biotic/abiotic stresses. CCT genes can be classified into three families, namely COL(CONSTANS-like), PRR(Pseudo-response regulator), and CMF(CCT motif family),based on their non-CCT domains. During domestication, natural and artificial selection resulted in reduced nucleotide diversity of CCT genes in modern cultivated cereals than their wild types. Here, we review the features and functions of CCT genes in cereal crops and propose future research to focus on CCT genes and their utilization in crop breeding.展开更多
Copper-catalyzed asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylides andβ-trifluoromethyl-substituted alkenyl heteroarenes was developed for the first time.A wide range of enantioenriched pyrrolidines containin...Copper-catalyzed asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylides andβ-trifluoromethyl-substituted alkenyl heteroarenes was developed for the first time.A wide range of enantioenriched pyrrolidines containing both heteroarenes and trifluoromethyl group with multiple stereogenic centers could be readily accessible by this method with good to high yields and excellent levels of both stereo-and regioselectivity(up to 99%yield,>20:1 rr,>20:1 dr,and up to 95%ee).Notably,substratecontrolled umpolung-type dipolar cycloaddition was also disclosed in this protocol to achieve regiodivergent synthesis withα-aryl substituted aldimine esters as the dipole precursors.Systematic DFT studies were conducted to explore the origin of the stereo-and regioselectivity of this 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition,and suggest that copper(Ⅱ)salt utilized in this catalytic system could be reduced in-situ to the active copper(Ⅰ)species and might be responsible for the observed high stereo-and regioselectivity.展开更多
基金financially supported by the Key Project of Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission (D16110500060000)the National Key Technology R&D Program of China (2014BAD01B09)
文摘Control of flowering time is crucial for reproductive success of cereal crops, and has a significant impact on grain yield as well as adaptation to diverse environmental conditions.Plants integrate signals from both environmental cues and endogenous regulatory pathways to fine-tune flowering time. The CCT domain originally described to a 43-amino acid sequence at the C-terminus of three Arabidopsis proteins, namely CONSTANS(CO),CO-LIKE, and TIMING OF CAB1(TOC1). The CCT domain-containing genes(CCT genes),which encode transcription co-factors, are the major genetic determinants that modulate flowering time, and this in turn enables plants to effectively expand their territory to take advantage of favorable habitats. Moreover, certain CCT genes have pleiotropic effects on morphological traits and confer resistance/tolerance to biotic/abiotic stresses. CCT genes can be classified into three families, namely COL(CONSTANS-like), PRR(Pseudo-response regulator), and CMF(CCT motif family),based on their non-CCT domains. During domestication, natural and artificial selection resulted in reduced nucleotide diversity of CCT genes in modern cultivated cereals than their wild types. Here, we review the features and functions of CCT genes in cereal crops and propose future research to focus on CCT genes and their utilization in crop breeding.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22071186,22071187,22073067,22101216,22271226,21933003,22193020,22193023)the National Youth Talent Support Program+3 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province(2020CFA0362021CFA069)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2042022kf1180,2042022kf1040)the Shenzhen Nobel Prize Scientists Laboratory Project(C17783101)the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalytic Chemistry(2020B121201002)。
文摘Copper-catalyzed asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylides andβ-trifluoromethyl-substituted alkenyl heteroarenes was developed for the first time.A wide range of enantioenriched pyrrolidines containing both heteroarenes and trifluoromethyl group with multiple stereogenic centers could be readily accessible by this method with good to high yields and excellent levels of both stereo-and regioselectivity(up to 99%yield,>20:1 rr,>20:1 dr,and up to 95%ee).Notably,substratecontrolled umpolung-type dipolar cycloaddition was also disclosed in this protocol to achieve regiodivergent synthesis withα-aryl substituted aldimine esters as the dipole precursors.Systematic DFT studies were conducted to explore the origin of the stereo-and regioselectivity of this 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition,and suggest that copper(Ⅱ)salt utilized in this catalytic system could be reduced in-situ to the active copper(Ⅰ)species and might be responsible for the observed high stereo-and regioselectivity.
