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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-3-24
pubmed:abstractText
Soil salinity limits agricultural production and is a major obstacle for feeding the growing world population. We used natural genetic variation in salt tolerance among different Arabidopsis accessions to map a major quantitative trait locus (QTL) for salt tolerance and abscisic acid (ABA) sensitivity during seed germination and early seedling growth. A recombinant inbred population derived from Landsberg erecta (Ler; salt and ABA sensitive) x Shakdara (Sha; salt and ABA resistant) was used for QTL mapping. High-resolution mapping and cloning of this QTL, Response to ABA and Salt 1 (RAS1), revealed that it is an ABA- and salt stress-inducible gene and encodes a previously undescribed plant-specific protein. A premature stop codon results in a truncated RAS1 protein in Sha. Reducing the expression of RAS1 by transfer-DNA insertion in Col or RNA interference in Ler leads to decreased salt and ABA sensitivity, whereas overexpression of the Ler allele but not the Sha allele causes increased salt and ABA sensitivity. Our results suggest that RAS1 functions as a negative regulator of salt tolerance during seed germination and early seedling growth by enhancing ABA sensitivity and that its loss of function contributes to the increased salt tolerance of Sha.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1091-6490
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
23
pubmed:volume
107
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
5669-74
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-3-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Abscisic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Arabidopsis, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Arabidopsis Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Crosses, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-DNA, Plant, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Genes, Plant, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Genetic Complementation Test, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Polymorphism, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Quantitative Trait Loci, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-RNA Interference, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Salt-Tolerance, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Salt-Tolerant Plants, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:20212128-Species Specificity
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
RAS1, a quantitative trait locus for salt tolerance and ABA sensitivity in Arabidopsis.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Plant Cell Biology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural