Anthocyanins are important natural plant pigments and play diverse roles in plant growth and adaptation.Anthocyanins function as screens to protect photosynthetic tissues from photoinhibition.However,the regulatory me...Anthocyanins are important natural plant pigments and play diverse roles in plant growth and adaptation.Anthocyanins function as screens to protect photosynthetic tissues from photoinhibition.However,the regulatory mechanisms underlying the biosynthesis and spatial accumulation pattern of anthocyanins remain some unresolved issues.Here,we demonstrate that the GARP-type transcription factor GOLDEN2-LIKE 1(GLK1)functions as a positive factor in anthocyanin accumulation.GLK1 enhances the transcriptional activation activities of MYB75,MYB90,and MYB113 via direct proteinprotein interactions to increase the expression of anthocyanin-specific biosynthetic genes.Anthocyanins accumulate in an acropetal manner in Arabidopsis.We also found that the expression pattern of GLK1 overall mimicked the accumulation pattern of anthocyanin from the base of the main stem to the shoot apex.Based on these findings,we established a working model for the role of GLK1 in anthocyanin accumulation and propose that GLK1mediates the spatial distribution pattern of anthocyanins by affecting the transcriptional activation activities of MYB75,MYB90,and MYB113.展开更多
基金supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31970263 to HL32070213 to DZ)+4 种基金the Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2022JDRC0032)Open Project Funding of the State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvementthe Institutional Research Fund of Sichuan University(2020SCUNL212)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(SCU2020D003)the Sichuan Forage Innovation Team Program。
文摘Anthocyanins are important natural plant pigments and play diverse roles in plant growth and adaptation.Anthocyanins function as screens to protect photosynthetic tissues from photoinhibition.However,the regulatory mechanisms underlying the biosynthesis and spatial accumulation pattern of anthocyanins remain some unresolved issues.Here,we demonstrate that the GARP-type transcription factor GOLDEN2-LIKE 1(GLK1)functions as a positive factor in anthocyanin accumulation.GLK1 enhances the transcriptional activation activities of MYB75,MYB90,and MYB113 via direct proteinprotein interactions to increase the expression of anthocyanin-specific biosynthetic genes.Anthocyanins accumulate in an acropetal manner in Arabidopsis.We also found that the expression pattern of GLK1 overall mimicked the accumulation pattern of anthocyanin from the base of the main stem to the shoot apex.Based on these findings,we established a working model for the role of GLK1 in anthocyanin accumulation and propose that GLK1mediates the spatial distribution pattern of anthocyanins by affecting the transcriptional activation activities of MYB75,MYB90,and MYB113.