TY - JOUR
T1 - Overexpression of Prunus DAM6 inhibits growth, represses bud break competency of dormant buds and delays bud outgrowth in apple plants
AU - Yamane, Hisayo
AU - Wada, Masato
AU - Honda, Chikako
AU - Matsuura, Takakazu
AU - Ikeda, Yoko
AU - Hirayama, Takashi
AU - Osako, Yutaro
AU - Gao-Takai, Mei
AU - Kojima, Mikiko
AU - Sakakibara, Hitoshi
AU - Tao, Ryutaro
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant-in-Aids KAKENHI Nos. 23380017, 26252005, 18H02198) to HY. https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/ index.html. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. We thank Prof. Takashi Aoyama (Kyoto University, Japan) for providing the vector containing the hormone-binding domain of a mouse glucocorticoid receptor. We also thank Ms. Y. Hosaka and Mr. S. Mimura, Master’s course students at Kyoto University, for their assistance with the experiments. This study was financially supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant-in-Aids KAKENHI Nos. 23380017, 26252005, and 18H02198). We thank Lesley Benyon, PhD, from Edanz Group (www.edanzediting.com/ac) for editing a draft of this manuscript.
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PY - 2019/4
Y1 - 2019/4
N2 - Most deciduous fruit trees cultivated in the temperate zone require a genotype-dependent amounts of chilling exposure for dormancy release and bud break. In Japanese apricot (Prunus mume), DORMANCY-ASSOCIATED MADS-box 6 (PmDAM6) may influence chilling-mediated dormancy release and bud break. In this study, we attempted to elucidate the biological functions of PmDAM6 related to dormancy regulation by analyzing PmDAM6-overex-pressing transgenic apple (Malus spp.). We generated 35S:PmDAM6 lines and chemically inducible overexpression lines, 35S:PmDAM6-GR. In both overexpression lines, shoot growth was inhibited and early bud set was observed. In addition, PmDAM6 expression repressed bud break competency during dormancy and delayed bud break. Moreover, PmDAM6 expression increased abscisic acid levels and decreased cytokinins contents during the late dormancy and bud break stages in both 35S:PmDAM6 and 35S:PmDAM6-GR. Our analysis also suggested that abscisic acid levels increased during dormancy but subsequently decreased during dormancy release whereas cytokinins contents increased during the bud break stage in dormant Japanese apricot buds. We previously revealed that PmDAM6 expression is continuously down-regulated during dormancy release toward bud break in Japanese apricot. The PmDAM6 expression pattern was concurrent with a decrease and increase in the abscisic acid and cytokinins contents, respectively, in dormant Japanese apricot buds. Therefore, we hypothesize that PmDAM6 represses the bud break competency during dormancy and bud break stages in Japanese apricot by modulating abscisic acid and cytokinins accumulation in dormant buds.
AB - Most deciduous fruit trees cultivated in the temperate zone require a genotype-dependent amounts of chilling exposure for dormancy release and bud break. In Japanese apricot (Prunus mume), DORMANCY-ASSOCIATED MADS-box 6 (PmDAM6) may influence chilling-mediated dormancy release and bud break. In this study, we attempted to elucidate the biological functions of PmDAM6 related to dormancy regulation by analyzing PmDAM6-overex-pressing transgenic apple (Malus spp.). We generated 35S:PmDAM6 lines and chemically inducible overexpression lines, 35S:PmDAM6-GR. In both overexpression lines, shoot growth was inhibited and early bud set was observed. In addition, PmDAM6 expression repressed bud break competency during dormancy and delayed bud break. Moreover, PmDAM6 expression increased abscisic acid levels and decreased cytokinins contents during the late dormancy and bud break stages in both 35S:PmDAM6 and 35S:PmDAM6-GR. Our analysis also suggested that abscisic acid levels increased during dormancy but subsequently decreased during dormancy release whereas cytokinins contents increased during the bud break stage in dormant Japanese apricot buds. We previously revealed that PmDAM6 expression is continuously down-regulated during dormancy release toward bud break in Japanese apricot. The PmDAM6 expression pattern was concurrent with a decrease and increase in the abscisic acid and cytokinins contents, respectively, in dormant Japanese apricot buds. Therefore, we hypothesize that PmDAM6 represses the bud break competency during dormancy and bud break stages in Japanese apricot by modulating abscisic acid and cytokinins accumulation in dormant buds.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0214788
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0214788
M3 - Article
C2 - 30964897
AN - SCOPUS:85064085460
VL - 14
JO - PLoS One
JF - PLoS One
SN - 1932-6203
IS - 4
M1 - e0214788
ER -