Crop JournalPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2023.09.007
Tao Zhong , Suining Deng , Mang Zhu , Xingming Fan , Mingliang Xu , Jianrong Ye
{"title":"ZmDRR206 functions in maintaining cell wall integrity during maize seedling growth and defense response to external stresses","authors":"Tao Zhong , Suining Deng , Mang Zhu , Xingming Fan , Mingliang Xu , Jianrong Ye","doi":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.09.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.09.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Plants adaptively change their cell wall composition and structure during their growth, development, and interactions with environmental stresses. Dirigent proteins (DIRs) contribute to environmental adaptations by dynamically reorganizing the cell wall and/or by generating defense compounds. A maize DIR, ZmDRR206, was previously reported to play a dominant role in regulation of storage nutrient accumulation in endosperm during maize kernel development. Here we show that ZmDRR206 mediates maize seedling growth and disease resistance by coordinately regulating biosynthesis of cell wall components for cell-wall integrity (CWI) maintenance. Expression of <em>ZmDRR206</em> was induced in maize seedlings upon pathogen infection. <em>ZmDRR206</em> overexpression in maize resulted in reduced seedling growth and photosynthetic activity but increased disease resistance and drought tolerance, revealing a tradeoff between growth and defense. Consistently, <em>ZmDRR206</em> overexpression reduced the contents of primary metabolites and down-regulated genes involved in photosynthesis, while increasing the contents of major cell wall components, defense phytohormones, and defense metabolites, and up-regulated genes involved in defense and cell-wall biosynthesis in seedlings. <em>ZmDRR206-</em>overexpressing seedlings were resistant to cell-wall stress imposed by isoxaben, and ZmDRR206 physically interacted with ZmCesA10, which is a cellulose synthase unit. Our findings suggest a mechanism by which ZmDRR206 coordinately regulates biosynthesis of cell-wall components for CWI maintenance during maize seedling growth, and might be exploited for breeding strong disease resistance in maize.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":10790,"journal":{"name":"Crop Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214514123001356/pdfft?md5=4327b3ba9fefeb6dfb35b37318eaed14&pid=1-s2.0-S2214514123001356-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136168511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop JournalPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2023.05.013
Yi Liu , Lianan Guo , Guoli Qu, Yang Xiang, Xu Zhao, Hua Yuan, Ting Li, Liangzhu Kang, Shiwen Tang, Bin Tu, Bingtian Ma, Yuping Wang, Shigui Li, Weilan Chen, Peng Qin
{"title":"Wide grain 4, encoding an alpha-tubulin, regulates grain size by affecting cell expansion in rice","authors":"Yi Liu , Lianan Guo , Guoli Qu, Yang Xiang, Xu Zhao, Hua Yuan, Ting Li, Liangzhu Kang, Shiwen Tang, Bin Tu, Bingtian Ma, Yuping Wang, Shigui Li, Weilan Chen, Peng Qin","doi":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.05.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.05.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rice is one of the three most important food crops in the world. Increasing rice yield is an effective way to ensure food security. Grain size is a key factor affecting rice yield; however, the genetic and molecular mechanisms regulating grain size have not been fully investigated. In this study, we identified a rice mutant, <em>wide grain 4-D</em> (<em>wg4-D</em>), that exhibited a significant increase in grain width and a decrease in grain length. Histological analysis demonstrated that <em>WG4</em> affects cell expansion thereby regulating grain size. MutMap-based gene mapping and complementary transgenic experiments revealed that <em>WG4</em> encodes an alpha-tubulin, OsTubA1. A SNP mutation in <em>WG4</em> affected the arrangement of cortical microtubules and caused a wide-grain phenotype. <em>WG4</em> is located in nuclei and cytoplasm and expressed in various tissues. Our results provide insights into the function of tubulin in rice and identifies novel targets the regulation of grain size in crop breeding.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":10790,"journal":{"name":"Crop Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214514123000892/pdfft?md5=44d38c2d58780a99e8e0241f440de492&pid=1-s2.0-S2214514123000892-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122034717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop JournalPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2023.08.006
Ting Li , Shutu Xu , Jiawen Zhao , Yapeng Wang , Jun Zhang , Xin Wei , Jianzhou Qu , Ruisu Yu , Xinghua Zhang , Chuang Ma , Jiquan Xue
{"title":"Genome assembly of KA105, a new resource for maize molecular breeding and genomic research","authors":"Ting Li , Shutu Xu , Jiawen Zhao , Yapeng Wang , Jun Zhang , Xin Wei , Jianzhou Qu , Ruisu Yu , Xinghua Zhang , Chuang Ma , Jiquan Xue","doi":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.08.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.08.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Superior inbred lines are central to maize breeding as sources of natural variation. Although many elite lines have been sequenced, less sequencing attention has been paid to newly developed lines. We constructed a genome assembly of the elite inbred line KA105, which has recently been developed by an artificial breeding population named Shaan A and has shown desirable characteristics for breeding. Its pedigree showed genetic divergence from B73 and other lines in its pedigree. Comparison with the B73 reference genome revealed extensive structural variation, 58 presence/absence variation (PAV) genes, and 1023 expanded gene families, some of which may be associated with disease resistance. A network-based integrative analysis of stress-induced transcriptomes identified 13 KA105-specific PAV genes, of which eight were induced by at least one kind of stress, participating in gene modules responding to stress such as drought and southern leaf blight disease. More than 200,000 gene pairs were differentially correlated between KA105 and B73 during kernel development. The KA105 reference genome and transcriptome atlas are a resource for further germplasm improvement and surveys of maize genomic variation and gene function.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":10790,"journal":{"name":"Crop Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214514123001174/pdfft?md5=2a70ec5364826ab111b6d61f4371360b&pid=1-s2.0-S2214514123001174-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135429343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop JournalPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2023.11.001
Caiyun Liu , Wei Guo , Yang Wang , Bisheng Fu , Jaroslav Doležel , Ying Liu , Wenling Zhai , Mahmoud Said , István Molnár , Kateřina Holušová , Ruiqi Zhang , Jizhong Wu
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Introgression of sharp eyespot resistance from Dasypyrum villosum chromosome 2VL into bread wheat” [Crop J. 11 (2023) 1512–1520]","authors":"Caiyun Liu , Wei Guo , Yang Wang , Bisheng Fu , Jaroslav Doležel , Ying Liu , Wenling Zhai , Mahmoud Said , István Molnár , Kateřina Holušová , Ruiqi Zhang , Jizhong Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10790,"journal":{"name":"Crop Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221451412300154X/pdfft?md5=ee77f12865db68c0c043d6ec0001dd39&pid=1-s2.0-S221451412300154X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop JournalPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2023.10.002
Jianjun Wang , Chi Zhang , Youpeng Chen , Yanan Shao , Meifang Liao , Qian Hou , Weitang Zhang , Yang Zhu , Yuan Guo , Zijin Liu , Christian Jung , Mingxun Chen
{"title":"The BnTFL1–BnGF14nu–BnFD module regulates flower development and plant architecture in Brassica napus","authors":"Jianjun Wang , Chi Zhang , Youpeng Chen , Yanan Shao , Meifang Liao , Qian Hou , Weitang Zhang , Yang Zhu , Yuan Guo , Zijin Liu , Christian Jung , Mingxun Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.10.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.10.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Flower development and plant architecture determine the efficiency of mechanized harvest and seed yield in <em>Brassica napus</em>. Although <em>TERMINAL FLOWER 1</em> (<em>AtTFL1</em>) is a regulator of flower development in <em>Arabidopsis thaliana</em>, the function and regulatory mechanism of <em>TFL1</em> orthologs in <em>B. napus</em> remains unclear. Six <em>BnTFL1</em> paralogs in the genome of the <em>B. napus</em> inbred line ‘K407’ showed steadily increasing expression during vernalization. CRISPR/Cas-induced mutagenesis of up to four <em>BnTFL1</em> paralogs resulted in early flowering and alteration of plant architecture, whereas seed yield was not altered in <em>BnTFL1</em> single, double, or triple mutants. Six <em>BnTFL1</em> paralogs, but not <em>BnaA02.TFL1</em>, showed an additive and conserved effect on regulating flowering time, total and terminal flower number, and plant architecture. BnaA10.TFL1 regulates flower development by interacting with BnaA08.FD through the protein BnaA05.GF14nu, resulting in the transcriptional repression of floral integrator and floral meristem identity genes. These findings about the regulatory network controlling flower development and plant architecture present a promising route to modifying these traits in <em>B. napus</em>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":10790,"journal":{"name":"Crop Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214514123001393/pdfft?md5=a2c41af2075973783be99600bc64bea4&pid=1-s2.0-S2214514123001393-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136152470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop JournalPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2023.10.001
Xiaobo Wang , Weiwei Mao , Yongfa Wang , Hongyao Lou , Panfeng Guan , Yongming Chen , Huiru Peng , Jiankang Wang
{"title":"Breeding design in wheat by combining the QTL information in a GWAS panel with a general genetic map and computer simulation","authors":"Xiaobo Wang , Weiwei Mao , Yongfa Wang , Hongyao Lou , Panfeng Guan , Yongming Chen , Huiru Peng , Jiankang Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.10.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A large amount of genome-wide association study (GWAS) panels together with quantitative-trait locus (QTL) information associated with breeding-targeted traits have been described in wheat (<em>Triticum aestivum</em> L.). However, the application of mapping results from a GWAS panel to conventional wheat breeding remains a challenge. In this study, we first report a general genetic map which was constructed from 44 published linkage maps. It permits the estimation of genetic distances between any two genetic loci with physical map positions, thereby unifying the linkage relationships between QTL, genes, and genomic markers from multiple genetic populations. Second, we describe QTL mapping in a wheat GWAS panel of 688 accessions, identifying 77 QTL associated with 12 yield and grain-quality traits. Because these QTL have known physical map positions, they could be mapped onto the general map. Finally, we present a design approach to wheat breeding by using known QTL information and computer simulation. Potential crosses between parents in the GWAS panel may be evaluated by the relative frequency of the target genotype, trait correlations in simulated progeny populations, and genetic gain of selected progenies. It is possible to simultaneously improve yield and grain quality by suitable parental selection, progeny population size, and progeny selection scheme. Applying the design approach will allow identifying the most promising crosses and selection schemes in advance of the field experiment, increasing predictability and efficiency in wheat breeding.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":10790,"journal":{"name":"Crop Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214514123001368/pdfft?md5=eef63b600f404e0ee4ccbf98a67ddc3d&pid=1-s2.0-S2214514123001368-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136152852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop JournalPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2023.08.005
Jie Li , Amanpreet Kaur , Brian Harrower , Miles Armstrong , Daolong Dou , Xiaodan Wang , Ingo Hein
{"title":"Identification and mapping of Rpi-blb4 in diploid wild potato species Solanum bulbocastanum","authors":"Jie Li , Amanpreet Kaur , Brian Harrower , Miles Armstrong , Daolong Dou , Xiaodan Wang , Ingo Hein","doi":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.08.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.08.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>More than 170 years after causing the potato famine in Ireland, late blight is still considered one of the most devastating crop diseases. Commercial potato breeding efforts depend on natural sources of resistance to protect crops from the rapidly evolving late blight pathogen, <em>Phytophthora infestans.</em> We have identified and mapped a novel broad-spectrum disease resistance gene effective against <em>P. infestans</em> from the wild, diploid potato species <em>Solanum bulbocastanum</em>. Diagnostic resistance gene enrichment sequencing (dRenSeq) was used to confirm the uniqueness of the identified resistance. RenSeq and GenSeq-based mapping of the resistance, referred to as <em>Rpi-blb4</em>, alongside recombinant screening, positioned the locus responsible for the resistance to potato chromosome 5. The interval spans approximately 2.3 Mb and corresponds to the DM reference genome positions of 11.25 and 13.56 Mb.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":10790,"journal":{"name":"Crop Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214514123001150/pdfft?md5=9fc84631d97e019388ea25976639d4c1&pid=1-s2.0-S2214514123001150-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135484300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop JournalPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2023.06.009
Ricardo José Gonzaga Pimenta , Alexandre Hild Aono , Roberto Carlos Villavicencio Burbano , Marcel Fernando da Silva , Ivan Antônio dos Anjos , Marcos Guimarães de Andrade Landell , Marcos Cesar Gonçalves , Luciana Rossini Pinto , Anete Pereira de Souza
{"title":"Multiomic investigation of Sugarcane mosaic virus resistance in sugarcane","authors":"Ricardo José Gonzaga Pimenta , Alexandre Hild Aono , Roberto Carlos Villavicencio Burbano , Marcel Fernando da Silva , Ivan Antônio dos Anjos , Marcos Guimarães de Andrade Landell , Marcos Cesar Gonçalves , Luciana Rossini Pinto , Anete Pereira de Souza","doi":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.06.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.06.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>Sugarcane mosaic virus</em> (SCMV) is the main etiological agent of sugarcane mosaic disease, which affects sugarcane and other grass crops. Despite the extensive characterization of quantitative trait loci controlling resistance to SCMV in maize, the genetic basis of this trait in sugarcane is largely unexplored. Here, a genome-wide association study was performed and machine learning coupled with feature selection was used for genomic prediction of resistance to SCMV in a diverse sugarcane panel. Nine single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) explained up to 29.9% of the observed phenotypic variance and a 73-SNP set predicted resistance with high accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 scores (the harmonic mean of precision and recall). Both marker sets were validated in additional sugarcane genotypes, in which the SNPs explained up to 23.6% of the phenotypic variation and predicted resistance with a maximum accuracy of 69.1%. Synteny analyses suggested that the gene responsible for the majority of SCMV resistance in maize is absent in sugarcane, explaining why this major resistance source has not been identified in this crop. Finally, using sugarcane RNA-Seq data, markers associated with resistance to SCMV were annotated, and a gene coexpression network was constructed to identify the predicted biological processes involved in resistance. This network allowed the identification of candidate resistance genes and confirmed the involvement of stress responses, photosynthesis, and the regulation of transcription and translation in resistance to SCMV. These results provide a practical marker-assisted breeding approach for sugarcane and identify target genes for future studies of SCMV resistance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":10790,"journal":{"name":"Crop Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214514123000934/pdfft?md5=19c2c7e8d37678324bb9cc3bde8893c8&pid=1-s2.0-S2214514123000934-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124096509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop JournalPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2023.07.003
Qingqing Yang , Yan Tan , Ying Ye , Dongsheng Zhao , Qiaoquan Liu
{"title":"Serotonin enrichment of rice endosperm by metabolic engineering","authors":"Qingqing Yang , Yan Tan , Ying Ye , Dongsheng Zhao , Qiaoquan Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.07.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In animals, serotonin is a neurotransmitter and mood regulator. In plants, serotonin functions in energy acquisition, tissue maintenance, delay of senescence, and response to biotic and abiotic stresses. In this study, we examined the effect of serotonin enrichment of rice endosperm on plant growth, endosperm development, and grain quality. To do so, <em>TDCs</em> and <em>T5H</em> were selected as targets for serotonin fortification. Overexpression of <em>TDC1</em> or <em>TDC3</em> increased serotonin accumulation relative to overexpression of <em>T5H</em> in rice grain. Transgenic lines of target genes driven by the <em>Gt1</em> promoter showed better field performance than those driven by the <em>Ubi</em> promoter. Overexpression of <em>T5H</em> showed little effect on plant growth or grain physicochemical quality. In neuronal cell culture assays, serotonin induced neuroprotective action against apoptosis. Breeding of rice cultivars with high serotonin content may be beneficial for health and nutrition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":10790,"journal":{"name":"Crop Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214514123000995/pdfft?md5=dea353c70e8e6d9e927575ac1fbd4cc6&pid=1-s2.0-S2214514123000995-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114101227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop JournalPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2023.07.001
Baixiao Niu , Jing Xu , Zhiguo E , Zhenyu Zhang , Xinming Lu , Chen Chen
{"title":"Ectopic expression of OsNF-YA8, an endosperm-specific nuclear factor Y transcription-factor gene, causes vegetative and reproductive development defects in rice","authors":"Baixiao Niu , Jing Xu , Zhiguo E , Zhenyu Zhang , Xinming Lu , Chen Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cj.2023.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nuclear factor Y (NF-Y), a group of conserved transcription-factor complexes that consist of NF-YA, B, and C subunits, is essential for developmental regulation and for responses to environmental changes in eukaryotes. We previously found that some NF-Y genes, such as <em>OsNF-YA8</em>, were expressed specifically in the endosperm of rice. In the present study, overexpression of <em>OsNF-YA8</em> in rice resulted in reduced plant height due to suppressed cell elongation in internodes. Gibberellin (GA) biosynthetic genes, including <em>OsCPS1</em>, <em>OsGA20ox1</em>, and <em>OsGA20ox2</em>, were down-regulated. OsNF-YA8 bound to the promoters of these genes to repress their expression. Endogenous GA content was decreased in <em>OsNF-YA8</em> overexpressors, whose dwarf phenotype could be partially rescued by exogenous GA treatment. The findings suggested that ectopic expression of <em>OsNF-YA8</em> causes defective GA biosynthesis in vegetative stage. Heading date in <em>OsNF-YA8</em> overexpressors was delayed, especially under short-day conditions. OsNF-YA8 bound to the promoter of <em>Heading Date 3a</em> (<em>Hd3a</em>), the florigen gene in rice, to negatively regulate flowering. Either ectopic activation or knockout of <em>OsNF-YA8</em> impaired seed development, as indicated by reduced seed size and increased grain chalkiness. These results suggest that ectopic expression of the endosperm-specific <em>OsNF-YA8</em> in rice disrupts both vegetative and reproductive development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":10790,"journal":{"name":"Crop Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221451412300096X/pdfft?md5=7ca493ca3bbe2eba7899cf75dbd180c1&pid=1-s2.0-S221451412300096X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117068262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}