The maternally expressed polycomb group gene OsEMF2a is essential for endosperm cellularization and imprinting in rice

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第一作者： Cheng, Xiaojun

作者： Cheng, Xiaojun;Pan, Meiyao;Zhou, Yong;Niu, Baixiao;Chen, Chen;E, Zhiguo

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关键词： endosperm; cellularization; osemf2a; PRC2; genomic imprinting; rice

期刊名称：PLANT COMMUNICATIONS （ 影响因子：8.625； 五年影响因子：8.625 ）

ISSN： 2590-3462

年卷期： 2021 年 2 卷 1 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Cellularization is a key event in endosperm development. Polycomb group (PcG) genes, such as Fertilization-Independent Seed 2 (FIS2), are vital for the syncytium-to-cellularization transition in Arabidopsis plants. In this study, we found that OsEMF2a, a rice homolog of the Arabidopsis PcG gene Embryonic Flower2 (EMF2), plays a role similar to that of FIS2 in regard to seed development, although there is limited sequence similarity between the genes. Delayed cellularization was observed in osemf2a, associated with an unusual activation of type I MADS-box genes. The cell cycle was persistently activated in osemf2a caryopses, which was likely caused by cytokinin overproduction. However, the overaccumulation of auxin was not found to be associated with the delayed cellularization. As OsEMF2a is a maternally expressed gene in the endosperm, a paternally inherited functional allele was unable to recover the maternal defects of OsEMF2a. Many imprinted rice genes were deregulated in the defective hybrid seeds of osemf2a (female)/9311 (male) (m9). The paternal expression bias of some paternally expressed genes was disrupted in m9 due to either the activation of maternal alleles or the repression of paternal alleles. These findings suggest that OsEMF2a-PRC2-mediated H3K27me3 is necessary for endosperm cellularization and genomic imprinting in rice.

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