Coordination between growth and stress responses by DELLA in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha
Plant survival depends on the optimal use of resources under variable environmental conditions. Among the mechanisms that mediate the balance between growth, differentiation, and stress responses, the regulation of transcriptional activity by DELLA proteins stands out. In angiosperms, DELLA accumulation promotes defense against biotic and abiotic stress and represses cell division and expansion, while the loss of DELLA function is associated with increased plant size and sensitivity toward stress.1 Given that DELLA protein stability is dependent on gibberellin (GA) levels2 and GA metabolism is influenced by the environment,3 this pathway is proposed to relay environmental information to the transcriptional programs that regulate growth and stress responses in angiosperms.4,5 However, DELLA genes are also found in bryophytes, whereas canonical GA receptors have been identified only in vascular plants.6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Thus, it is not clear whether these regulatory functions of DELLA predated or emerged with typical GA signaling. Here, we show that, as in vascular plants, the only DELLA in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha also participates in the regulation of growth and key developmental processes and promotes oxidative stress tolerance. Moreover, part of these effects is likely caused by the conserved physical interaction with the MpPIF transcription factor. Therefore, we suggest that the role in the coordination of growth and stress responses was already encoded in the DELLA protein of the common ancestor of land plants, and the importance of this function is underscored by its conservation over the past 450 million years.
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| Format: | artículo biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-08-23
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| Subjects: | Gibberellin, Marchantia polymorpha, Plant growth, Oxidative stress, Plant hormone, Plant evolution, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/251041 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001691 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003176 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001700 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 |
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| Summary: | Plant survival depends on the optimal use of resources under variable environmental conditions. Among the mechanisms that mediate the balance between growth, differentiation, and stress responses, the regulation of transcriptional activity by DELLA proteins stands out. In angiosperms, DELLA accumulation promotes defense against biotic and abiotic stress and represses cell division and expansion, while the loss of DELLA function is associated with increased plant size and sensitivity toward stress.1 Given that DELLA protein stability is dependent on gibberellin (GA) levels2 and GA metabolism is influenced by the environment,3 this pathway is proposed to relay environmental information to the transcriptional programs that regulate growth and stress responses in angiosperms.4,5 However, DELLA genes are also found in bryophytes, whereas canonical GA receptors have been identified only in vascular plants.6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Thus, it is not clear whether these regulatory functions of DELLA predated or emerged with typical GA signaling. Here, we show that, as in vascular plants, the only DELLA in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha also participates in the regulation of growth and key developmental processes and promotes oxidative stress tolerance. Moreover, part of these effects is likely caused by the conserved physical interaction with the MpPIF transcription factor. Therefore, we suggest that the role in the coordination of growth and stress responses was already encoded in the DELLA protein of the common ancestor of land plants, and the importance of this function is underscored by its conservation over the past 450 million years. |
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