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ArticleScientific reports2021

Identification and functional characterization of two bamboo FD gene homologs having contrasting effects on shoot growth and flowering.

Smritikana Dutta, Anwesha Deb, Prasun Biswas, Sukanya Chakraborty, Suman Guha, Devrani Mitra, Birgit Geist, Anton R Schäffner, Malay Das

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Smritikana DuttaDepartment of Life Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
Anwesha DebDepartment of Life Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
Prasun BiswasDepartment of Life Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
Sukanya ChakrabortyDepartment of Life Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
Suman GuhaDepartment of Statistics, Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
Devrani MitraDepartment of Life Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
Birgit GeistInstitute of Biochemical Plant Pathology, Department of Environmental Sciences, Helmholtz Zentrum München, München, Germany.
Anton R SchäffnerInstitute of Biochemical Plant Pathology, Department of Environmental Sciences, Helmholtz Zentrum München, München, Germany.
Malay DasDepartment of Life Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India. malay.dbs@presiuniv.ac.in.
Presidency University · INHelmholtz Zentrum München · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bamboos, member of the family Poaceae, represent many interesting features with respect to their fast and extended vegetative growth, unusual, yet divergent flowering time across species, and impact of sudden, large scale flowering on forest ecology. However, not many studies have been conducted at the molecular level to characterize important genes that regulate vegetative and flowering habit in bamboo. In this study, two bamboo FD genes, BtFD1 and BtFD2, which are members of the florigen activation complex (FAC) have been identified by sequence and phylogenetic analyses. Sequence comparisons identified one important amino acid, which was located in the DNA-binding basic region and was altered between BtFD1 and BtFD2 (Ala146 of BtFD1 vs. Leu100 of BtFD2). Electrophoretic mobility shift assay revealed that this alteration had resulted into ten times higher binding efficiency of BtFD1 than BtFD2 to its target ACGT motif present at the promoter of the APETALA1 gene. Expression analyses in different tissues and seasons indicated the involvement of BtFD1 in flower and vegetative development, while BtFD2 was very lowly expressed throughout all the tissues and conditions studied. Finally, a tenfold increase of the AtAP1 transcript level by p35S::BtFD1 Arabidopsis plants compared to wild type confirms a positively regulatory role of BtFD1 towards flowering. However, constitutive expression of BtFD1 had led to dwarfisms and apparent reduction in the length of flowering stalk and numbers of flowers/plant, whereas no visible phenotype was observed for BtFD2 overexpression. This signifies that timely expression of BtFD1 may be critical to perform its programmed developmental role in planta.

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BambusaGene Expression Regulation, PlantGenes, PlantSasaPlant ProteinsPlant Proteins

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PMID33846519
PMCPMC8041875
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