Journal Article

A homologous gene of OsREL2/ASP1, ASP-LSL regulates pleiotropic phenotype including long sterile lemma in rice

Ali, Asif, Wang, Jinhao, Song, Jiahe, Fang, Yongqiong, Liu, Yutong, Zhou, Tingting, Chen, Xiaoqiong, Xu, Peizhou, Liao, Yongxiang, Wu, Tingkai, Luo, Yi, Zhang, Hongyu, Wu, Xianjun

2021

Overview

Background Panicle is a harvesting organ of rice, and its morphology and development are closely associated with grain yield. The current study was carried on a mutant screened through an EMS (ethyl-methane sulphonate) mutagenized population of a Japonica cultivar Kitaake (WT ) . Results A mutant, named as asp-lsl ( aberrant spikelet-long sterile lemma ), showed a significant decrease in plant height, number of tillers, thousand-grains weight, seed setting rate, spikelet length, kernel length and effective number of grains per panicle as compared to WT. Asp-lsl showed a pleiotropic phenotype coupled with the obvious presence of a long sterile lemma. Cross-sections of lemma showed an increase in the cell volume rather than the number of cells. Genetic segregation analysis revealed its phenotypic trait is controlled by a single recessive nuclear gene. Primary and fine mapping indicated that candidate gene controlling the phenotype of asp-lsl was located in an interval of 212 kb on the short arm of chromosome 8 between RM22445 and RM22453. Further sequencing and indels markers analysis revealed LOC_Os08g06480 harbors a single base substitution (G→A), resulting in a change of 521st amino acid(Gly→Glu. The homology comparison and phylogenetic tree analysis revealed mutation was occurred in a highly conserved domain and had a high degree of similarity in Arabidopsis, corn, and sorghum. The CRISPR/Cas9 mutant line of ASP-LSL produced a similar phenotype as that of asp-lsl . Subcellular localization of ASP-LSL revealed that its protein is localized in the nucleus. Relative expression analysis revealed ASP-LSL was preferentially expressed in panicle, stem, and leaves. The endogenous contents of GA, CTK, and IAA were found significantly decreased in asp-lsl as compared to WT. Conclusions Current study presents the novel phenotype of asp-lsl and also validate the previously reported function of OsREL2 (ROMOSA ENHANCER LOCI2) , / ASP1(ABERRANT SPIKELET AND PANICLE 1).

• Publisher: BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V,BMC
• Subject: Aberrant spikelet / Agricultural production / Agriculture / Amino acid substitution / Amino acids / Analysis / Arabidopsis / Biomedical and Life Sciences / Cell size / Chromosome 8 / chromosomes / Cloning / corn / CRISPR / Crop yield / Cultivars / domain / Dwarfism / Fertility / Gene cloning / Gene mapping / Gene mutations / Genes / Genetic analysis / Genetic aspects / Genetics and crop biotechnology / Genotype & phenotype / Grain / grain yield / Homology / Identification and classification / Life Sciences / Localization / Long sterile lemma / Morphology / Mutants / Mutation / panicles / Phenotype / Phenotypes / Phylogeny / Physiological aspects / plant height / Plant Sciences / Pleiotropic phenotype / Proteins / Relative expression / Research Article / Rice / Seeds / Sorghum / spikelets / Tillers / Transcription factors / Tree Biology / Varieties