INTERORGAN REGULATION OF ETHYLENE BIOSYNTHETIC GENES BY POLLINATION

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作者
ONEILL, SD
NADEAU, JA
ZHANG, XS
BUI, AQ
HALEVY, AH
机构
[1] Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Rehovot, 76100
[2] Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Botany, University of California at Davis, Davis
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10.1105/tpc.5.4.419
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Pollination initiates a syndrome of developmental events that contribute to successful reproduction, including perianth senescence, changes in pigmentation, and ovule differentiation in preparation for impending fertilization. In orchid flowers, initiation of each of these processes in distinct floral organs is strictly and coordinately controlled by pollination, thus providing a unique opportunity to study the signals that coordinate interorgan postpollination development. Because ethylene has been implicated in contributing to regulation of several aspects of postpollination development, we focused on determining the expression of its biosynthetic genes and their possible role in regulation. The abundance of mRNA encoding both 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) synthase and ACC oxidase in the stigma, ovary, and labellum was found to be coordinately regulated by emasculation, auxin, and ethylene. Although petals contribute up to 26% of total flower ethylene and accumulate high levels of ACC oxidase mRNA and activity following pollination, no ACC synthase mRNA or activity was detected in this tissue. Together, these results support a model of interorgan regulation of postpollination development that depends on pollination-stimulated accumulation of mRNA encoding ethylene blosynthetic enzymes in a developmentally regulated and tissue-specific manner. This model relies on the translocation of a soluble hormone precursor, ACC, rather than on the translocation of the hormone itself. In this way, ACC serves to actuate the response already initiated by ethylene perceived by other parts of the flower. Thus, ACC may function asa secondary transmissible signal that coordinates postpollination development in diverse floral organs.
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