CRISPR/Cas9-mediated mutations of FANTASTIC FOUR gene family for creating early flowering mutants in tomato

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第一作者： Shang, Lele

作者： Shang, Lele;Tao, Jinbao;Song, Jianwen;Wang, Yaru;Zhang, Xingyu;Ge, Pingfei;Li, Fangman;Dong, Haiqiang;Gai, Wenxian;Ye, Zhibiao;Zhang, Yuyang;Shang, Lele;Ye, Zhibiao;Zhang, Yuyang;Grierson, Donald;Zhang, Yuyang;Zhang, Yuyang

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关键词： CRISPR/Cas9; early flowering; FANTASTIC FOUR; germplasms; tomato

期刊名称：PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL （ 影响因子：13.8； 五年影响因子：13.2 ）

ISSN： 1467-7644

年卷期： 2023 年

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Flowering time is of great agricultural importance and the timing and extent of flowering usually determines yield and availability of flowers, fruits and seeds. Identification of genes determining flowering has important practical applications for tomato breeding. Here we demonstrate the roles of the FANTASTIC FOUR (FAF) gene family in regulating tomato flowering time. In this plant-specific gene family, SlFAF1/2a shows a constitutive expression pattern during the transition of the shoot apical meristem (SAM) from vegetative to reproductive growth and significantly influences flowering time. Overexpressing SlFAF1/2a causes earlier flowering compared with the transformations of other genes in the FAF family. SlFAF1/2c also positively regulates tomato flowering, although to a lesser extent. The other members of the SlFAF gene family, SlFAF1/2b, SlFAF3/4a and SlFAF3/4b, are negative regulators of tomato flowering and faf1/2b, faf3/4a and faf3/4b single mutants all display early flowering. We generated a series of early flowering mutants using the CRISPR/Cas9 editing system, and the faf1/2b faf3/4a faf3/4b triple mutant flowering earliest compared with other mutants. More importantly, these mutants show no adverse effect on yield. Our results have uncovered the role of the FAF gene family in regulating tomato flowering time and generated early flowering germplasms for molecular breeding.

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