Journal article
Integration of light and abscisic acid signaling during seed germination and early seedling development
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, Vol.105(11), pp.4495-4500
03/18/2008
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/114212
PMCID: PMC2393781
PMID: 18332440
Abstract
Seed germination is regulated by endogenous hormonal cues and external environmental stimuli such as water, low temperature, and light. After germination, the young seedling must rapidly establish its root system and the photoautotrophic capability appropriate to its surrounding environment. Light and the phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) both regulate seed germination and seedling development, although how light and ABA signals are integrated at the molecular level is not understood. Here, we found that the previously described light-signaling component HY5 also mediates ABA response in seed germination, early seedling growth, and root development in
Arabidopsis
. HY5 binds to the promoter of the transcription factor
ABI5
gene with high affinity and is required for the expression of
ABI5
and ABI5-targeted late embryogenesis-abundant genes in seeds. Chromatin immunoprecipitation also indicated that the binding of HY5 to the
ABI5
promoter is significantly enhanced by ABA. Overexpression of ABI5 restores ABA sensitivity in
hy5
and results in enhanced light responses and shorter hypocotyls in the wild type. Our studies identified an unexpected mode of light and ABA signal integration that may help young seedlings better adapt to environmental stresses.
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- Title
- Integration of light and abscisic acid signaling during seed germination and early seedling development
- Creators
- Hao Chen - Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St Louis, MO 63132Jingyu Zhang - Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130Michael M Neff - Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130Suk-Whan Hong - Department of Applied Plant Science, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500-757, South Korea; andHuiyong Zhang - Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520Xing-Wang Deng - Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520Liming Xiong - Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St Louis, MO 63132
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, Vol.105(11), pp.4495-4500
- Academic Unit
- Crop and Soil Sciences, Department of
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Identifiers
- 99900547518201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article