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A Virus-induced Assay for Functional Dissection and Analysis of Monocot and Dicot Flowering Time Genes

Qin, C., Chen, W., Shen, J., Cheng, L., Akande, F., Zhang, K., Yuan, C., Li, C., Zhang, P., Shi, N., Cheng, Q., Liu, Y., Jackson, S. and Hong, Yiguo (2017) A Virus-induced Assay for Functional Dissection and Analysis of Monocot and Dicot Flowering Time Genes. Plant Physiology, 174 (2). pp. 875-885. ISSN 0032-0889 Online 1532-2548

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Abstract

Virus-induced flowering (VIF) uses virus vectors to express Flowering Locus T (FT) to induce flowering in plants. This approach has recently attracted wide interest for its practical applications in accelerating breeding in crops and woody fruit trees. However, the insight into VIF and its potential as a powerful tool for dissecting florigenic proteins remained to be elucidated. Here, we describe the mechanism and further applications of Potato virus X (PVX)-based VIF in the short-day Nicotiana tabacum cultivar Maryland Mammoth. Ectopic delivery of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) AtFT by PVX/AtFT did not induce the expression of the endogenous FT ortholog NtFT4; however, it was sufficient to trigger flowering in Maryland Mammoth plants grown under noninductive long-day conditions. Infected tobacco plants developed no systemic symptoms, and the PVX-based VIF did not cause transgenerational flowering. We showed that the PVX-based VIF is a much more rapid method to examine the impacts of single amino acid mutations on AtFT for floral induction than making individual transgenic Arabidopsis lines for each mutation. We also used the PVX-based VIF to demonstrate that adding a His- or FLAG-tag to the N or C terminus of AtFT could affect its florigenic activity and that this system can be applied to assay the function of FT genes from heterologous species, including tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) SFT and rice (Oryza sativa) Hd3a. Thus, the PVX-based VIF represents a simple and efficient system to identify individual amino acids that are essential for FT-mediated floral induction and to test the ability of mono- and dicotyledonous FT genes and FT fusion proteins to induce flowering.

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Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: Arabidopsis protein, FT protein, Arabidopsis, plant protein, amino acid substitution, gene expression regulation, genetics, virology, tobacco, tomato, transgenic plant, Oryza, Potexvirus, Lycopersicon esculentum, flowers, genetically modified plants
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics
Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR355 Virology
Divisions: College of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences > School of Science and the Environment
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Copyright Info: Open Access article
Depositing User: Yiguo Hong
Date Deposited: 01 Aug 2018 08:17
Last Modified: 17 Jun 2020 17:23
URI: https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/6877

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