WRKY76 is a rice transcriptional repressor playing opposite roles in blast disease resistance and cold stress tolerance

OsWRKY76 encodes a group IIa WRKY transcription factor of rice. The expression of OsWRKY76 was induced within 48h after inoculation with rice blast fungus (Magnaporthe oryzae), and by wounding, low temperature, benzothiadiazole, and abscisic acid. Green fluorescent protein-fused OsWRKY76 localized t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of experimental botany. - 1985. - 64(2013), 16 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 5085-97
1. Verfasser: Yokotani, Naoki (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Sato, Yuko, Tanabe, Shigeru, Chujo, Tetsuya, Shimizu, Takafumi, Okada, Kazunori, Yamane, Hisakazu, Shimono, Masaki, Sugano, Shoji, Takatsuji, Hiroshi, Kaku, Hisatoshi, Minami, Eiichi, Nishizawa, Yoko
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2013
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of experimental botany
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Blast disease resistance WRKY. cold stress phytoalexin rice transcriptional repressor Plant Proteins Repressor Proteins
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Zusammenfassung:OsWRKY76 encodes a group IIa WRKY transcription factor of rice. The expression of OsWRKY76 was induced within 48h after inoculation with rice blast fungus (Magnaporthe oryzae), and by wounding, low temperature, benzothiadiazole, and abscisic acid. Green fluorescent protein-fused OsWRKY76 localized to the nuclei in rice epidermal cells. OsWRKY76 showed sequence-specific DNA binding to the W-box element in vitro and exhibited W-box-mediated transcriptional repressor activity in cultured rice cells. Overexpression of OsWRKY76 in rice plants resulted in drastically increased susceptibility to M. oryzae, but improved tolerance to cold stress. Microarray analysis revealed that overexpression of OsWRKY76 suppresses the induction of a specific set of PR genes and of genes involved in phytoalexin synthesis after inoculation with blast fungus, consistent with the observation that the levels of phytoalexins in the transgenic rice plants remained significantly lower than those in non-transformed control plants. Furthermore, overexpression of OsWRKY76 led to the increased expression of abiotic stress-associated genes such as peroxidase and lipid metabolism genes. These results strongly suggest that OsWRKY76 plays dual and opposing roles in blast disease resistance and cold tolerance
Beschreibung:Date Completed 23.06.2014
Date Revised 08.04.2022
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1460-2431
DOI:10.1093/jxb/ert298