CRISPR/Cas knockout of the NADPH oxidase gene OsRbohB reduces ROS overaccumulation and enhances heat stress tolerance in rice

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第一作者: Liu, Xiaolong

作者: Liu, Xiaolong;Ji, Ping;Liao, Jingpeng;Duan, Ximiao;Luo, Zhiyang;Yang, Hongtao;Peng, Bo;Jiang, Kai;Yu, Xin;Jiang, Chang-Jie;Xu, Chen

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关键词: Rice (Oryza sativa L.); heat stress; OsRbohB-knockout; reactive oxygen species (ROS); grain yield

期刊名称:PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL ( 影响因子:10.5; 五年影响因子:12.4 )

ISSN: 1467-7644

年卷期: 2025 年 23 卷 2 期

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收录情况: SCI

摘要: Heat stress (HS) has become a major factor limiting crop yields worldwide. HS inhibits plant growth by ROS accumulation, and NADPH oxidases (Rbohs) are major ROS producers in plants. Here, we show that CRISPR/Cas knockout of the OsRbohB (OsRbohB-KO) significantly increased rice tolerance to HS imposed at various different growth stages. We produced OsRbohB-KO and OsRbohB-overexpression (OsRbohB-OE) lines in a japonica cultivar, Nipponbare. Compared with nontransgenic wild-type (WT) plants, the OsRbohB-KO lines showed a significant increase in chlorophyll contents (5.2%-58.0%), plant growth (48.2%-65.6%) and grain yield (8.9%-20.5%), while reducing HS-induced ROS accumulation in seeds (21.3%-33.0%), seedlings (13.0%-30.4%), anthers (13.1%-20.3%) and grains (9.7%-22.1%), under HS conditions. Analysis of yield components revealed that the increased yield of OsRbohB-KO plants was due to increased starch synthetase activity, spikelets per panicle (2.0%-9.3%), filled spikelets (4.8%-15.5%), percentage of filled spikelets (2.4%-6.8%) and 1000-grain weight (2.9%-7.4%) under HS conditions during the reproductive stage. Grain milling and appearance quality, and starch content were also significantly increased in OsRbohB-KO plants under HS conditions during the mature stage. Furthermore, OsRbohB-KO significantly upregulated the expression levels of heat shock-related genes, OsHSP23.7, OsHSP17.7, OsHSF7 and OsHsfA2a, in rice seedlings and grains under long-term HS conditions. Conversely, OsRbohB-OE resulted in phenotypes that were opposite to OsRbohB-KO in most cases. Our results suggest that suppression of OsRbohB provides an effective approach for alleviating heat damage and improving grain yield and quality of rice under long-term HS conditions.

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