Enhancement of the Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis Pathway Improves Grain Yield in Rice

Wu, Chuanyin; Kwok, Shing F.; Harris, Sam; Trieu, Anthony; Radhakrishnan, Parthiban; Salazar, Andres; Zhang, Ke; Wang, Jiulin; Wan, Jianmin; Fujioka, Shozo; Feldmann, Ken; Pennell, Roger I.

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“…In contrast, a significant reduction in the 1000-grain of TaBRI1 knock-down mutants were observed ( Figure 5 C). Previous studies have shown that the combination of erect leaves and dense planting can improve crop yield in BR-related mutants [ 31 , 50 ]. The TaBRI1 knock-down mutants, TaBRI1-A1 and TaBRI1-D1 showed erect leaves with a slight reduction in grain yield per plant.…”

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Knock-Down the Expression of Brassinosteroid Receptor TaBRI1 Reduces Photosynthesis, Tolerance to High Light and High Temperature Stresses and Grain Yield in Wheat

Fang

Weiqi

Tong

2020

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Brassinosteroid (BR)-deficient or -insensitive mutants exhibited altered plant architecture with the potential to impact yield, the underlying physiological and molecular mechanisms are still to be explored. In this study, we cloned three BR receptor homologous genes TaBRI1-A1, -B1 and -D1 from hexaploid wheat (Triticum estivum L.) and further isolated the TaBRI1-A1, TaBRI1-D1 deletion mutants from the ion beam-induced mutants of variety Xiaoyan81, TaBRI1-A1 and TaBRI1-D1 in which the expression of total receptor TaBRI1 was significantly decreased. The TaBRI1 knock-down mutants exhibited relatively erect leaves and a significant decrease in the 1000-grain weight. Further studies showed that TaBRI1 knock-down mutants showed a significant reduction in photosynthetic rate during the whole grain-filling stage. TaBRI1 knock-down plants generated by TaBRI1-A1, TaBRI1-D1 deletion or using virus-induced gene silencing exhibited the reduction in the efficiency of photosystem II (PSII) (Fv/Fm, ΦPSII and electron transport rate, ETR) especially under high light and high temperature stresses. The 24-epibrassinolide (EBR) treatment increased CO2 assimilation rate in the wild type under both normal and high light and high temperature stresses conditions, but this increasing effect was not observed in the TaBRI1 knock-down mutants. Meanwhile, the expression levels of BR biosynthetic genes including TaDWARF4, TaCPD1 and TaCPD90C1 is not decreased or decreased to a lesser extent in the TaBRI1 knock-down mutants after EBR treatment. These results suggested that TaBRI1 is required for maintaining photosynthesis and tolerance to high light and high temperature stresses both of which are important for grain yield and will be a possible engineered target to control plant photosynthesis and yields in wheat.

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