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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-12-5
pubmed:abstractText
The resurrection plant (Craterostigma plantagineum) is desiccation tolerant. However, callus derived from this plant, when propagated in vitro, requires exogenously applied abscisic acid (ABA) in order to survive desiccation. Treatment of callus tissue with ABA induces most of the genes that are induced by dehydration in the whole plant. This property has been exploited for the isolation of mutants that show dominant phenotypes resulting from the ectopic expression of endogenous genes induced by the insertion of a foreign promoter. Here we describe new T-DNA tagged Craterostigma desiccation-tolerant (cdt) mutants with different molecular and physiological characteristics, suggesting that different pathways of desiccation tolerance are affected. One of the mutants, cdt-2, constitutively expresses known osmoprotective Lea genes in callus and leaf tissue. Further analysis of this mutant revealed that the tagged locus is similar to a previously characterised gene, CDT-1, which codes for a signalling molecule that confers desiccation tolerance. The nature of the T-DNA insertion provides insight into the mechanism by which the CDT-1/2 gene family functions in ABA signal transduction.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1617-4615
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
274
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
364-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Abscisic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Craterostigma, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-DNA, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Desiccation, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Gene Expression Regulation, Plant, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Genes, Plant, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Genetic Vectors, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Genotype, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Models, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Plant Leaves, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-RNA, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-RNA, Plant, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:16133164-Signal Transduction
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Identification of further Craterostigma plantagineum cdt mutants affected in abscisic acid mediated desiccation tolerance.
pubmed:affiliation
Max Planck Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Carl-von-Linné Weg 10, 50829, Köln, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't