Abstract
Plant NUCLEAR FACTOR Y (NF-Y) transcription factors play important roles in plant development and abiotic stress. In Arabidopsis thaliana, two NF-YB (AtNF-YB2 and AtNF-YB3) and five NF-YC (AtNF-YC1, AtNF-YC2, AtNF-YC3, AtNF-YC4, and AtNF-YC9) genes regulate photoperiodic flowering by interacting with other AtNF-Y subunit proteins. Three rice NF-YB (OsNF-YB8, OsNF-YB10, and OsNF-YB11) and five rice OsNF-YC (OsNF-YC1, OsNF-YC2, OsNF-YC4, OsNF-YC6, and OsNF-YC7) genes are clustered with two AtNF-YB and five AtNF-YC genes, respectively. To investigate the functional conservation of these NF-YB and NF-YC genes in rice and Arabidopsis, we analyzed the flowering phenotypes of transgenic plants overexpressing the respective OsNF-YB and OsNF-YC genes in Arabidopsis mutants. Overexpression of OsNF-YB8/10/11 and OsNF-YC2 complemented the late flowering phenotype of Arabidopsis nf-yb2 nf-yb3 and nf-yc3 nf-yc4 nf-yc9 mutants, respectively. The rescued phenotype of 35S
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 857-865 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Plant Cell Reports |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 11 2016 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: We thank Prof. Ben F. Holt III for providing nf-yb2 nf-yb3 and nf-yc3 nf-yc4 nf-yc9 mutants and other mutants not used in this study. This work was supported by the Next-Generation BioGreen 21 Program (PJ007978), Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea and a Korea University Grant (to J.-K. Kim), Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2015R1D1A4A0101941 to J.H. Lee and 2014R1A1A2055796 to J.-K. Kim), and by the BK 21 program (to S.-K. Kim).