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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gao, He
• Jin, Mingna
• Zheng, Xiao-Ming
• Chen, Jun
• Yuan, Dingyang
• Xin, Yeyun
• Wang, Maoqing
• Huang, Dongyi
• Zhang, Zhe
• Zhou, Kunneng
• Sheng, Peike
• Ma, Jin
• Ma, Weiwei
• Deng, Huafeng
• Jiang, Ling
• Liu, Shijia
• Wang, Haiyang
• Wu, Chuanyin
• Yuan, Longping
• Wan, Jianmin

Titel

Days to heading 7, a major quantitative locus determining photoperiod sensitivity and regional adaptation in rice

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2014-11, Vol.111 (46), p.16337-16342

Ort / Verlag

United States: National Academy of Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Success of modern agriculture relies heavily on breeding of crops with maximal regional adaptability and yield potentials. A major limiting factor for crop cultivation is their flowering time, which is strongly regulated by day length (photoperiod) and temperature. Here we report identification and characterization of Days to heading 7 ( DTH7 ), a major genetic locus underlying photoperiod sensitivity and grain yield in rice. Map-based cloning reveals that DTH7 encodes a pseudo-response regulator protein and its expression is regulated by photoperiod. We show that in long days DTH7 acts downstream of the photoreceptor phytochrome B to repress the expression of Ehd1 , an up-regulator of the “florigen” genes ( Hd3a and RFT1 ), leading to delayed flowering. Further, we find that haplotype combinations of DTH7 with Grain number, plant height, and heading date 7 ( Ghd7 ) and DTH8 correlate well with the heading date and grain yield of rice under different photoperiod conditions. Our data provide not only a macroscopic view of the genetic control of photoperiod sensitivity in rice but also a foundation for breeding of rice cultivars better adapted to the target environments using rational design. Significance Flowering time is one of the best studied ecologically important traits under natural or human selection for adaptation of plants to specific local environments. Photoperiodic sensitivity is a major agronomic trait that tailors vegetative and reproductive growth to local climates and is thus particularly important for crop yield and quality. This study not only identifies a major quantitative trait locus underlying photoperiod sensitivity in rice ( Days to heading 7 , DTH7 ) but also demonstrates that various haplotype combinations of DTH7 with Grain number, plant height, and heading date 7 ( Ghd7 ) and DTH8 correlate well with the flowering time and grain yield of rice varieties under diverse cultivating conditions. Our results build a foundation for breeding of high-yield rice varieties with desired photosensitivity and optimum adaptation to the target environments.