Mutation of ZmWRKY86 confers enhanced salt stress tolerance in maize

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB. - 1991. - 167(2021) vom: 09. Okt., Seite 840-850
1. Verfasser: Fang, Xiu (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Li, Wei, Yuan, Haotian, Chen, Haowei, Bo, Chen, Ma, Qing, Cai, Ronghao
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB
Schlagworte:Journal Article Maize Mutation RNA-seq Salt stress WRKY transcription factor ZmWRKY86 Plant Proteins Transcription Factors
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Zusammenfassung:Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
As one of the largest families of transcription factors in plants, the WRKY proteins play crucial roles in plant growth and development, defense regulation and stress responses. In this research, ZmWRKY86 encoding a WRKY transcription factor was cloned from maize (Zea mays L.). ZmWRKY86 expression was up-regulated by salt stress. ZmWRKY86 is a nuclear protein and has no transcriptional activation ability in yeast. ZmWRKY86 can specifically bind to W-box (TTGACC), which was confirmed by electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) and dual-LUC experiments. As compared with control, the wrky86 mutants showed enhanced plant tolerance to salt stress with higher survival rate, catalase activity and K+ content, but lower malondialdehyde accumulation, relative electrical leakage level and Na+ content under salt-stress condition. Transcriptome and quantitative real-time PCR analyses indicated that the mutation of ZmWRKY86 led to significant changes in the expression of stress-related genes in maize. Further assays showed that ZmWRKY86 directly interacted with the promoter of two salt stress-related genes Zm00001d020840 and Zm00001d046813. In summary, we identified a WRKY transcription factor ZmWRKY86 that participates in salt stress regulation through controlling the expression of stress-related genes
Beschreibung:Date Completed 13.10.2021
Date Revised 31.05.2022
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1873-2690
DOI:10.1016/j.plaphy.2021.09.010