Xutao Zhao, Lingxiong Zan, Niaofei He, Haidong Liu, Xiaorong Xing, Dezhi Du, Guoyong Tang, Kaixiang Li
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Abstract
Determinate inflorescence is indeed a pivotal agricultural characteristic in crops, notably impacting the architecture modification of Brassica napus (AACC, 2n = 38). Previous study identified a crucial gene Bnsdt2 that encodes the transcription factor BnaC09.TFL1 (Terminal Flower 1). Here by two alleles were cloned and sequenced from indeterminate 2982 and determinate 4769, respectively, we found that BnaC09.TFL1 harbors two T/C and G/C non-synonymous mutations in exon 1, and contains sixty-six differences in a 1.9 Kb promoter sequence. Subsequently, BnaC09.TFL1 was introduced into B. napus 571 line by genetic complementation and overexpression, transgenic plants 571CTO lines and 571TClines were all restored to the indeterminate inflorescence. Interestingly, after BnaC09.TFL1 was knocked out in 'Westar', transgenic plants WestarTcr lines were mutated to determinate inflorescences. Additionally, a NIL-4769 line was constructed to evaluate the effect of BnaC09.TFL1 on agronomic traits of Brassica napus, the results demonstrated that BnaC09.tfl1 reduced the plant height and increased the branch number and branch thousand grain weight of Brassica napus. Finally, we performed RT-qPCR, GUS staining and subcellular localization experiments to analyze the expression pattern of BnaC09.TFL1, the results showed that the expression of BnaC09.TFL1 at shoot apex of NIL-4769 was higher than that of 4769, GUS activity was detected at apical of Arabidopsis thaliana and BnC09.TFL1-GFP was detected in cell membrane, nucleus and cytoplasm. Our findings provide a firm molecular foundation for the study of rapeseed's molecular mechanism of determinate inflorescence formation, as well as theoretical guidance for the application of determinate inflorescence in rapeseed breeding.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11032-024-01503-7.
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Molecular Breeding is an international journal publishing papers on applications of plant molecular biology, i.e., research most likely leading to practical applications. The practical applications might relate to the Developing as well as the industrialised World and have demonstrable benefits for the seed industry, farmers, processing industry, the environment and the consumer.
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Molecular Breeding will consider manuscripts describing contemporary methods of molecular genetics and genomic analysis, structural and functional genomics in crops, proteomics and metabolic profiling, abiotic stress and field evaluation of transgenic crops containing particular traits. Manuscripts on marker assisted breeding are also of major interest, in particular novel approaches and new results of marker assisted breeding, QTL cloning, integration of conventional and marker assisted breeding, and QTL studies in crop plants.