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Guohui Yu1,2, Zheni Xie1,2, Shanshan Lei1
1College of Agro-Grassland Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Abstract:
Expression of chlorophyll (Chl) catabolic genes during leaf senescence is tightly controlled at the transcriptional level. Here, we identified a NAC family transcription factor, LpNAL, involved in regulating Chl catabolic genes via the yeast one-hybrid system based on truncated promoter analysis of STAYGREEN (LpSGR) in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). LpNAL was found to be a transcriptional repressor, directly repressing LpSGR as well as the Chl b reductase gene, NONYELLOWING COLORING1. Perennial ryegrass plants over-expressing LpNAL exhibited delayed leaf senescence or stay-green phenotypes, whereas knocking down LpNAL using RNA interference accelerated leaf senescence. Comparative transcriptome analysis of leaves at 30 d after emergence in wild-type, LpNAL-overexpression, and knock-down transgenic plants revealed that LpNAL-regulated stay-green phenotypes possess altered light reactions of photosynthesis, antioxidant metabolism, ABA and ethylene synthesis and signaling, and Chl catabolism. Collectively, the transcriptional repressor LpNAL targets both Chl a and Chl b catabolic genes and acts as a brake to fine-tune the rate of Chl degradation during leaf senescence in perennial ryegrass.
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