Plant and Cell Physiology, 1996, Vol. 37, No. 3 363-368
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A Step in the Biosynthesis of Gibberellins that Is Controlled by the Mutation in the Semi-Dwarf Rice Cultivar Tan-Ginbozu
1Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113 Japan
2Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, The University of Tokyo 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113 Japan
3National Agriculture Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery 3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 Japan
4To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Genetic analysis and a comparison of endogenous levels of gibberellins between the semi-dwarf rice cultivar Tan-ginbozu and the corresponding normal cultivar Ginbozu have confirmed that Tan-ginbozu is a gibberellin deficient mutant and that the semi-dwarfism of Tan-ginbozu is controlled by a single recessive gene. A step in the biosynthesis of gibberellins that is blocked by the mutation in Tan-ginbozu had been considered to be the synthesis of ent-kaurene or an earlier step. However, the rate of production of ent-kaurene by Tan-ginbozu was almost the same as that by Ginbozu. By contrast, accumulation of only a small amount of ent-kaurene was detected in Tan-ginbozu, and the amount that accumulated was similar to that in Ginbozu that had been treated with 6.9 x 10-8 M uniconazole-P (an effective inhibitor of three oxidative steps in the pathway from ent-kaurene to ent-kaurenoic acid via entkaurenol and ent-kaurenal). The height of the treated Ginbozu plants was reduced to the same as that of Tanginbozu plants. Resembling Tan-ginbozu plants, Ginbozu plants that had been treated with uniconazole-P responded well to ent-kaurenoic acid and slightly to ent-kaurene and ent-kaurenol. Since the growth-promoting activity of enf-kaurenal in Tan-ginbozu was similar to that of ent-kaurene, our results suggest that the mutation in Tan-ginbozu blocks the three oxidative steps whereby ent-kaurene is converted to ent-kaurenoic acid.
(Received June 9, 1995; Accepted February 15, 1996)
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