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ArticleRice (New York, N.Y.)2025

The OsZHD1 and OsZHD2, Two Zinc Finger Homeobox Transcription Factor, Redundantly Control Grain Size by Influencing Cell Proliferation in Rice.

Mingliang Guo, Chun Zheng, Chao Shi, Xiaozhuan Lu, Zeyuan She, Shuyu Jiang, Dagang Tian, Yuan Qin

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Article in Rice (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Mingliang GuoState Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, Guangxi Key Lab of Sugarcane Biology, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China.
Chun ZhengState Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China.
Chao ShiState Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China.
Xiaozhuan LuState Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China.
Zeyuan SheState Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, Guangxi Key Lab of Sugarcane Biology, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China.
Shuyu JiangState Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China.
Dagang TianBiotechnology Research Institute, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering for Agriculture, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou, 350003, China. tdg@fjage.org.
Yuan QinState Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China. yuanqin001@foxmail.com.

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2023MD734148National Natural Science Foundation of China 32360087Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi 2023GXNSFBA026221Science and Technology Program of Fujian Province 2024N5004the Biological Breeding-National Science and Technology Major Project 2023ZD04072the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province, China 2022J02010the State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops SKL2022007
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Grain size is vital determinant for grain yield and quality, which specified by its three-dimensional structure of seeds (length, width and thickness). The ZINC FINGER-HOMEODOMAIN (ZHD) proteins play critical roles in plant growth and development. However, the information regarding the function in reproductive development of ZHD proteins is scarce. Here, we deeply characterized the phenotype of oszhd1, oszhd2, and oszhd1oszhd2. The single mutants of OsZHD1/2 were similar with wild type. Nevertheless, the double mutant displayed dwarfism and smaller reproductive organs, and shorter, narrower, and thinner grain size. oszhd1oszhd2 revealed a significant decrease in total cell length and number, and single cell width in outer parenchyma; reducing the average width of longitudinal epidermal cells, but the length were increased in outer and inner glumes of oszhd1oszhd2 compared with wild-type, oszhd1-1, oszhd2-1, respectively. OsZHD1 and OsZHD2 encoded the nucleus protein and were distributed predominately in stem and the developing spikelets, asserting their roles in grain size. Meanwhile, yeast two-hybrid, bimolecular fluorescence complementation, and Co-immunoprecipitation assay clarified that OsZHD1 could directly interacted with OsZHD2. The differential expression analysis showed that 839 DEGs, which were down-regulated in oszhd1oszhd2 than wild type and single mutants, were mainly enriched in secondary metabolite biosynthetic, integral component of membrane, and transporter activity pathway. Moreover, it is reliable that the altered expression of cell cycle and expansion-related and grain size-related genes were observed in RNA-seq data, highly consistent with the qRT-PCR results. Altogether, our results suggest that OsZHD1/2 are functional redundancy and involved in regulating grain size by influencing cell proliferation in rice.

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Cell proliferationGrain sizeOsZHD1OsZHD2RiceZinc finger-homeodomain

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PMID40119214
PMCPMC11928714

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