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HEREDITAS ›› 2011, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (9): 1003-1010.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1005.2011.01003

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Genetic screening and analysis of suppressors of asa1-1 (soa) defective in jasmonate-mediated lateral root formation in Arabidopsis

LI Yan-An1,2, QI Lin-Lin2, SUN Jia-Qiang2, LIU Hong-Yu1, LI Chuan-You2   

  1. 1. Northeast Agricultural University, College of Horticulture, Harbin 150030, China 2. State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, National Centre for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biol-ogy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
  • Received:2011-02-23 Revised:2011-03-26 Online:2011-09-20 Published:2011-09-25
  • Contact: Li Chuan-you E-mail:cyli@genetics.ac.cn

Abstract: It has been shown that jasmonate modulates the lateral root development through crosstalk with auxin in Arabidopsis thaliana. Exogenous application of jasmonate stimulates lateral root formation in wild type but inhibits lateral root formation in asa1-1. Our previous work has demonstrated that the lateral root formation defect of asa1-1 is co-related with jasmonte effect on PIN2 protein levels. To further elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying jasmonate-mediated reduction of plasma membrane (PM)-resident PIN2 abundance, we have conducted a genetic screen to identify suppressors of asa1-1 (soa), which showed lateral root formation in the presence of jasmonate. Here, we described the basic characterization of soa563 and soa856. We showed that both soa563 and soa856 displayed restored lateral root formation in response to exogenous jasmonate. In addition, jasmonate-induced PIN2:GFP reduction was blocked in these two mutants. Our on-going effort to identify genes defined by these mutants promise to shed new light on the understanding of the molecular mechanisms controlling jasmonate-mediated regulation of PIN2 protein trafficking and turnover.

Key words: Arabidopsis thaliana, jasmonate, auxin, PIN2, lateral root formation