The phytohormone gibberellin(GA) plays essential roles in plant growth and development. Here,we report that OsINO80, a conserved ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling factor in rice(Oryza sativa), functions in both G...The phytohormone gibberellin(GA) plays essential roles in plant growth and development. Here,we report that OsINO80, a conserved ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling factor in rice(Oryza sativa), functions in both GA biosynthesis and diverse biological processes. OsINO80-knockdown mutants, derived from either T-DNA insertion or RNA interference, display typical GA-deficient phenotypes, including dwarfism, reduced cell length, late flowering, retarded seed germination and impaired reproductive development. Consistently, transcriptome analyses reveal that OsINO80 knockdown results in downregulation by more than two-fold of over 1,000 genes, including the GA biosynthesis genes CPS_1 and GA_3ox_2, and the dwarf phenotype of OsINO80-knockdown mutants can be rescued by the application of exogenous GA3. Chromatin immunoprecipitation(Ch IP) experiments show that OsINO80 directly binds to the chromatin of CPS1 and GA_3ox_2 loci. Biochemical assays establish that OsINO80 specially interacts with histone variant H_2A.Z and the H_2A.Z enrichments at CPS_1 and GA_3ox_2 are decreased in OsINO80-knockdown mutants. Thus, our study identified a rice chromatin-remodeling factor,OsINO80, and demonstrated that OsINO80 is involved in regulation of the GA biosynthesis pathway and plays critical functions for many aspects of rice plant growth and development.展开更多
Although the world economy is showing signs of recovery,many developing countries are still dealing with economic difficulties brought on by the financial crisis.As a result,global poverty reduction is facing major ch...Although the world economy is showing signs of recovery,many developing countries are still dealing with economic difficulties brought on by the financial crisis.As a result,global poverty reduction is facing major challenges,and promoting the development of these countries has become a pressing issue,wrote Yang Jiemian,President of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies,in a recent article in People’s Daily.Edited excerpts follow:展开更多
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, Grants no.2012CB910500)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31570315, 91519308, and 31371304)
文摘The phytohormone gibberellin(GA) plays essential roles in plant growth and development. Here,we report that OsINO80, a conserved ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling factor in rice(Oryza sativa), functions in both GA biosynthesis and diverse biological processes. OsINO80-knockdown mutants, derived from either T-DNA insertion or RNA interference, display typical GA-deficient phenotypes, including dwarfism, reduced cell length, late flowering, retarded seed germination and impaired reproductive development. Consistently, transcriptome analyses reveal that OsINO80 knockdown results in downregulation by more than two-fold of over 1,000 genes, including the GA biosynthesis genes CPS_1 and GA_3ox_2, and the dwarf phenotype of OsINO80-knockdown mutants can be rescued by the application of exogenous GA3. Chromatin immunoprecipitation(Ch IP) experiments show that OsINO80 directly binds to the chromatin of CPS1 and GA_3ox_2 loci. Biochemical assays establish that OsINO80 specially interacts with histone variant H_2A.Z and the H_2A.Z enrichments at CPS_1 and GA_3ox_2 are decreased in OsINO80-knockdown mutants. Thus, our study identified a rice chromatin-remodeling factor,OsINO80, and demonstrated that OsINO80 is involved in regulation of the GA biosynthesis pathway and plays critical functions for many aspects of rice plant growth and development.
文摘Although the world economy is showing signs of recovery,many developing countries are still dealing with economic difficulties brought on by the financial crisis.As a result,global poverty reduction is facing major challenges,and promoting the development of these countries has become a pressing issue,wrote Yang Jiemian,President of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies,in a recent article in People’s Daily.Edited excerpts follow: