Overexpression of microRNA408 enhances photosynthesis, growth, and seed yield in diverse plants

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第一作者： Guo, Zhonglong

作者： Guo, Zhonglong;Kuang, Zheng;Zhang, He;Xie, Xinyu;Li, Lei;Pan, Jiawei;Guo, Zhonglong;Kuang, Zheng;Zhang, He;Xie, Xinyu;Li, Lei;Huang, Dahui;Ma, Zengfeng;Gao, Shaopei;Chu, Chengcai;Gao, Shaopei;Chu, Chengcai;Lerdau, Manuel T.

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期刊名称：JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY （ 影响因子：7.061； 五年影响因子：6.002 ）

ISSN： 1672-9072

年卷期： 2018 年 60 卷 4 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： The ability of a plant to produce grain, fruit, or forage depends ultimately on photosynthesis. There have been few attempts, however, to study microRNAs, which are a class of endogenous small RNAs post-transcriptionally programming gene expression, in relation to photosynthetic traits. We focused on miR408, one of the most conserved plant miRNAs, and overexpressed it in parallel in Arabidopsis, tobacco, and rice. The transgenic plants all exhibited increased copper content in the chloroplast, elevated abundance of plastocyanin, and an induction of photosynthetic genes. By means of gas exchange and optical spectroscopy analyses, we showed that higher expression of miR408 leads to enhanced photosynthesis through improving efficiency of irradiation utilization and the capacity for carbon dioxide fixation. Consequently, miR408 hyper-accumulating plants exhibited higher rate of vegetative growth. An enlargement of seed size was also observed in all three species overproducing miR408. Moreover, we conducted a 2-year-two-location field trial and observed miR408 overexpression in rice significantly increased yield, which was primarily attributed to an elevation in grain weight. Taken together, these results demonstrate that miR408 is a positive regulator of photosynthesis and that its genetic engineering is a promising route for enhancing photosynthetic performance and yield in diverse plants.

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