Plant and Cell Physiology, 2002, Vol. 43, No. 10 1146-1153
© 2002 Oxford University Press
Promotion of Transcript Accumulation of Novel Zinnia Immature Xylem-Specific HD-Zip III Homeobox Genes by Brassinosteroids
1 Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan
2 Plant Science Center, RIKEN, 1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, 230-0045 Japan
We isolated three novel homeobox genes (ZeHB-10, -11 and -12) from Zinnia elegans to elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying vascular system formation. ZeHB-10, -11 and -12 encode for HD-Zip proteins of the class III to which Arabidopsis Athb-8, -9, -14, -15 and IFL1 belong. In situ hybridization analysis demonstrated that the ZeHB-10, -11 and -12 mRNAs accumulated preferentially in procambium and immature xylem cells in 14-day-old plants. Transcripts for the three genes also accumulated in cultured Zinnia cells in a xylogenesis-specific manner. The accumulation of transcripts for all of ZeHB-10, -11 and -12 in cultured Zinnia cells was suppressed strongly by uniconazole, an inhibitor of brassinosteroid synthesis, and such suppression was reversed by the addition of brassinolide, a biologically active brassinosteroid. Thus the expression of ZeHB-10, -11 and -12 may be regulated by endogenous levels of brassinosteroids. Taken together with the fact that ZeHB-10, -11 and -12 proteins can bind to each other in yeast, the roles of HD-Zip III genes in vascular development are discussed.
3 Corresponding author: E-mail, kyoko@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp; Fax, +81-3-5841-4462.
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