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Ya Wang1, Dongsheng Yu1, Hongmiao Zhao1
1Key Laboratory of Plant Gene Resources and Biotechnology for Carbon Reduction and Environmental Improvement, Beijing Municipal Government, and College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China.
Abstract:
Plant glutamate receptor homologs (GLRs), which function as key calcium channels, play pivotal roles in various developmental processes as well as stress responses. The moss Physcomitrium patens, a representative of the earliest land plant lineage, possess multiple pathways of hormone signaling for coordinating growth and adaptation responses. However, it is not clear whether GLRs are connected to hormone-mediated growth control in the moss. In this study, we report that one of the two GLRs in P. patens, PpGLR1, involves in abscisic acid (ABA)-mediated growth regulation. ABA represses the growth of wild-type moss, and intriguingly, the PpGLR1 transcript levels are significantly increased in response to ABA treatment, based on both gene expression and the PpGLR1pro::GUS reporter results. Furthermore, the growth of Ppglr1 knockout moss mutants is hypersensitive to ABA treatment. These results suggest that PpGLR1 plays a critical role in ABA-mediated growth regulation, which provide useful information for our further investigation of the regulatory mechanism between Ca2+ signal and ABA in moss growth control.
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