| Autor: |
Chengcai Chu, Yuping Wang, Zi-Sheng Zhang, Jing-Qiu Xia, Shigui Li, Peng Qin, Chuanzao Mao, Ying Song, Cheng-Bin Xiang, Yi-Jie Huang, Shimei Wang, Lin-Hui Yu, Alamin Alfatih, Yang Liu, Gui-Quan Zhang, Liang-Qi Sun, Qi-Sheng Zhu, Guang-Yu Wan, Hui Tang, Jie Wu |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
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| DOI: |
10.1101/2020.01.16.908558 |
| Popis: |
Nitrogen (N) is one of the key essential macronutrients that affects rice growth and yield. Inorganic N fertilizers are excessively used to boost yield and generate serious collateral environmental pollution. Therefore, improving crop N use efficiency (NUE) is highly desirable and has been a major endeavor in crop improvement. However, only a few regulators have been identified that can be used to improve NUE in rice to date. Here we show that the NIN-like protein OsNLP4 significantly improves the rice NUE and yield. Field trials consistently showed that loss-of-OsNLP4 dramatically reduced yield and NUE compared with wild type under different N regimes. In contrast, the OsNLP4 overexpression lines remarkably increased yield by 30% and NUE by 47% under moderate N level compared with wild type. Transcriptomic analyses revealed that OsNLP4 orchestrates the expression of a majority of known N uptake, assimilation and signaling genes by directly binding to the nitrate-responsive cis-element in their promoters to regulate their expression. Moreover, overexpression of OsNLP4 can recover the phenotype of Arabidopsis nlp7 mutant and enhance its biomass. Our results demonstrate that OsNLP4 is a master regulator of NUE in rice and sheds light on crop NUE improvement. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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