A Subset of Arabidopsis RAV Transcription Factors Modulates Drought and Salt Stress Responses Independent of ABA
- Authors
- Fu, Minjie; Kang, Hyun Kyung; Son, Seung-Hyun; Kim, Seong-Ki; Nam, Kyoung Hee
- Issue Date
- Nov-2014
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PRESS
- Keywords
- ABA; Drought; Growth; RAV transcription factor; Salt; Seed germination
- Citation
- PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY, v.55, no.11, pp 1892 - 1904
- Pages
- 13
- Journal Title
- PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
- Volume
- 55
- Number
- 11
- Start Page
- 1892
- End Page
- 1904
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/11688
- DOI
- 10.1093/pcp/pcu118
- ISSN
- 0032-0781
1471-9053
- Abstract
- Arabidopsis RAV1, RAV1L and RAV2/TEM2 are Related to ABI3/VP1 (RAV) transcription factors that contain both plant-specific B3 and AP2 domains. RAV1 was known to be a negative regulator of growth and its transcript level was repressed by brassinolide (BL). In this study, we found that the expressions of RAV1, and its closest homologs RAV1L and RAV2 were also regulated by other plant hormones, and especially repressed significantly by BL and abscisic acid (ABA), which mediate various abiotic stress responses in plants. Therefore, to further investigate the physiological functions of RAV1, RAV1L and RAV2 in abiotic stress responses, we isolated T-DNA insertional knockout mutants of each gene and produced transgenic plants overexpressing the RAVs. Under normal conditions, each single mutant showed slightly promoted growth patterns only at an early stage of development. In comparison, the RAV1-overexpressing plants exhibited strong growth retardation with semi-dwarfed stature. In drought conditions, RAVs-overexpressing transgenic plants exhibited higher transpirational water loss than the wild type. In salt conditions, seed germination of the RAVs-overexpressing transgenic plants was more inhibited than that of the wild type, while ravs mutants showed promoted seed germination. We also found that RAVs expressions were reduced by dryness and salt. RAV1-overexpressing plants showed the same patterns of increased expression as stress-inducible genes such as RD29A, RD29B and the genes encoding ABA biosynthetic enzymes, as did the wild type and rav1 mutant. However, the RAV1-overexpressing transgenic plants were insensitive to ABA, regardless of the higher accumulation of ABA even in normal conditions. Taken together, these results suggest that RAVs are versatile negative regulators for growth and abiotic stresses, drought and salt, and that negative regulatory effects of RAVs on abiotic stresses are likely to be operated independently of ABA.
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