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Plant and Cell Physiology Advance Access originally published online on September 23, 2005
Plant and Cell Physiology 2005 46(12):1934-1943; doi:10.1093/pcp/pci206
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The Rice Mutant dwarf bamboo shoot 1: A Leaky Mutant of the NACK-type Kinesin-like Gene Can Initiate Organ Primordia but not Organ Development

Takashi Sazuka*, Ikuko Aichi, Takayuki Kawai, Naoki Matsuo, Hidemi Kitano and Makoto Matsuoka

Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601 Japan

* Corresponding author: E-mail, sazuka{at}agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp; Fax, +81-52-789-5226.

That plant dwarfism is caused by hormonal defects related to gibberellin and brassinosteroid has been well documented. Other contributing elements, however, have not been elucidated. Here, we report on one of the most severe dwarf mutants of rice, dwarf bamboo shoot 1 (dbs1). Most mutant plants died within 1 month after sowing, but a few (5.2%) survived and grew. Vacuolation enlarged cells in the leaf primordia and seminal root before abortion, which disrupted the organized cell files in these organs. Relative to the severe defects in shoot and root growth, the overall structure of the dbs1 embryo was almost normal. Similarly, initiation and organogenesis of the leaf primordia at the shoot apical meristem and those of the lateral root primordia at the root elongation zone occurred normally. These observations suggest that DBS1 is involved in the growth and development of organs but not in organ initiation or organogenesis. Positional cloning of DBS1 revealed that it encoded a NACK-type kinesin-like protein (OsNACK), homologous to the essential components of a mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade during plant cytokinesis. A BLAST search indicated that DBS1 was the only gene encoding the OsNACK-type protein in the rice genome, and the dbs1 mutant produced only small amounts of the translatable DBS1 mRNA. Thus, we conclude that the dbs1 mutation causes a severe defect in DBS1 function but does not completely shut it down. We discuss the leaky phenotype of dbs1 under the restricted functioning of OsNACK.

(Received July 19, 2005; Accepted September 19, 2005)
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