Expression of Arabidopsis GAI in transgenic rice represses multiple gibberellin responses.
Plant Cell
; 13(8): 1791-802, 2001 Aug.
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in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11487693
ABSTRACT
Bioactive gibberellins (GAs) are essential endogenous regulators of plant growth. GA signaling is mediated via GAI, a nuclear member of the GRAS family of plant transcription factors. Previous experiments have suggested that GAI is a GA-derepressible repressor of plant growth. Here we test this hypothesis by examining the effects of the expression of Arabidopsis GAI in transgenic Basmati rice. High-level expression of GAI caused dwarfism and reduced GA responses, and the strength of this effect was correlated with the level of transgene expression. In particular, the expression of GAI abolished the GA-mediated induction of rice aleurone alpha-amylase activity, thus implicating GAI orthologs in the well-characterized cereal aleurone GA response. The GA derepressible repressor model predicts that high-level expression of GAI should confer dwarfism, and these observations are consistent with this prediction.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Plant Growth Regulators
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Plant Proteins
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Oryza
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Genes, Plant
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Arabidopsis
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Arabidopsis Proteins
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Gibberellins
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Language:
En
Journal:
Plant Cell
Journal subject:
BOTANICA
Year:
2001
Document type:
Article
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