RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.1093/jxb/ert451
A1 Corrales Ducuara, Alba Rocio
A1 Nebauer, Sergio G.
A1 Carrillo Gil, Laura
A1 Fernandez Nohales, Pedro
A1 Marqués, Jorge
A1 Renau Morata, Begoña
A1 Granel, Antonio
A1 Pollmann, Stephan
A1 Vicente Carbajosa, Jesus
A1 Molina, Rosa Victoria
A1 Medina Alcazar, Joaquin
T1 Characterization of tomato Cycling Dof Factors reveals conserved and new functions in the control of flowering time and abiotic stress responses.
JF Journal of Experimental Botany
YR 2013
FD 2013-01
VO 65
IS 4
SP 995
OP 1012
AB DNA binding with One Finger (DOF) transcription factors are involved in multiple aspects of plant growth and development but their precise roles in abiotic stress tolerance are largely unknown. Here we report a group of five tomato DOF genes, homologous to Arabidopsis Cycling DOF Factors (CDFs), that function as transcriptional regulators involved in responses to drought and salt stress and flowering-time control in a gene-specific manner. SlCDF1?5 are nuclear proteins that display specific binding with different affinities to canonical DNA target sequences and present diverse transcriptional activation capacities in vivo. SlCDF1?5 genes exhibited distinct diurnal expression patterns and were differentially induced in response to osmotic, salt, heat, and low-temperature stresses. Arabidopsis plants overexpressing SlCDF1 or SlCDF3 showed increased drought and salt tolerance. In addition, the expression of various stress-responsive genes, such as COR15, RD29A, and RD10, were differentially activated in the overexpressing lines. Interestingly, overexpression in Arabidopsis of SlCDF3 but not SlCDF1 promotes late flowering through modulation of the expression of flowering control genes such as CO and FT. Overall, our data connect SlCDFs to undescribed functions related to abiotic stress tolerance and flowering time through the regulation of specific target genes and an increase in particular metabolites
SN 0022-0957
LK https://oa.upm.es/29160/
UL http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/65/4/995.abstract