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Plant and Cell Physiology Advance Access published online on August 10, 2007
Plant and Cell Physiology, doi:10.1093/pcp/pcm100
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ABA regulates apoplastic sugar transport and is a potential signal for cold-induced pollen sterility in rice.

Sandra N OLIVER1,2,3, Elizabeth S DENNIS1 and Rudy DOLFERUS1

1CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.
2Charles Sturt University, Locked Bag 588, Wagga Wagga NSW 2678, Australia.

Corresponding author: Rudy DOLFERUS. CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia, Phone: 61-2-62465010, FAX: 61-2-62465000, E-mail: rudy.dolferus{at}csiro.au


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Cold temperatures cause pollen sterility and large reductions in grain yield in temperate rice growing regions of the world. Induction of pollen sterility by cold involves a disruption of sugar transport in anthers, caused by the cold-induced repression of the apoplastic sugar transport pathway in the tapetum. In this paper we demonstrate that the phytohormone ABA is a potential signal for cold-induced pollen sterility (CIPS). Cold treatment of the cold-sensitive cultivar Doongara resulted in increased anther ABA levels. Exogenous ABA treatment at the young microspore (YM) stage induced pollen sterility and affected cell wall invertase and monosaccharide transporter gene expression in a way similar to cold treatment. In the cold-tolerant cultivar R31, ABA levels were significantly lower under normal circumstances and remained low after cold treatment. The differences in endogenous ABA levels in Doongara and R31 correlated with differences in expression of the ABA biosynthetic genes encoding zeaxanthin epoxidase (OSZEP1) and 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (OSNCED2, OSNCED3) in anthers. The expression of three ABA-8-hydroxylase genes (ABA8OX1, 2, 3) in R31 anthers was higher under control conditions and was regulated differently by cold compared to Doongara. Our results indicate that the cold-tolerance phenotype of R31 is correlated with lower endogenous ABA levels and a different regulation of ABA metabolism.

Keywords: Abscisic acid - cold - gene expression - pollen sterility - rice - tapetum

3Present address for Sandra N. OLIVER: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, Golm 14476, Germany.


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