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Published on: January 14, 2016
Roles of CsBRC1-like in leaf and lateral branch development in cucumber
Junjun Shen1, Danfeng Ge2, Xiaofei Song3
1State Key Laboratories of Agrobiotechnology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Growth and Developmental Regulation for Protected Vegetable Crops, MOE Joint Laboratory for International Cooperation in Crop Molecular Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
Abstract:
TEOSINTE BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PCF (TCP) family genes, as plant-specific transcription factors, play vital roles in flower pattern, leaf development and plant architecture. Our recent study shows that the TCP gene BRANCHED1 (CsBRC1) specifically regulates shoot branching in cucumber. Here, we found CsBRC1 had a closely related paralogous gene CsBRC1-like. The synteny analysis revealed that these two genes originated from a segmental duplication. CsBRC1-like displayed different expression patterns in cucumber compared with CsBRC1, indicating that they may have functional differentiation. Ectopic expression of CsBRC1-like in Arabidopsis brc1-1 mutant resulted in reduced rosette branches and rosette leaves, whereas silencing CsBRC1-like in cucumber only led to a deformed true leaf of seedling rather than affecting the shoot branching. RNA-seq analysis of wild-type and CsBRC1-like-RNAi plants implicated that CsBRC1-like might regulate early leaf development through affecting the transcripts of auxin and cytokinin related genes in cucumber. Moreover, CsBRC1-like directly interacts with CsTCP10a and CsBRC1 in vivo. Our results demonstrated that CsBRC1-like has a specific role in regulating leaf development, and CsBRC1-like and CsBRC1 may have overlapping roles in shoot branching.
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