文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Cai, Zhongquan ¹ ; Jia, Peilong ² ; Zhang, Jiaqiang ³ ; Gan, Ping ¹ ; Shao, Qi ¹ ; Jin, Gang ⁴ ; Wang, Liping ⁴ ; Jin, Ji ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Guangxi Univ, Coll Life Sci & Technol, State Key Lab Conservat & Utilizat Subtrop Agrobi, Nanning, Peoples R China

2.Guangxi Univ, Inst New Rural Dev, Natl Demonstrat Ctr Expt Plant Sci Educ, Coll Agr, Nanning, Guangxi, Peoples R China

3.Zhejiang Acad Agr Sci, Res & Dev Ctr Flower, Hangzhou, Peoples R China

4.Guangxi Subtrop Crops Res Inst, Nanning, Peoples R China

期刊名称：PLOS ONE （ 2020影响因子：3.24； 五年影响因子：3.788 ）

ISSN： 1932-6203

年卷期： 2019 年 14 卷 9 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Chloroplast plays an important role in the plant life cycle. However, the details of its development remain elusive in rice. In this study, we report the fine-mapping of a novel rice gene wpb1 (white panicle branch 1), which affects chloroplast biogenesis, from a tropical japonica variety that results in an albino panicle branches at and after the heading stage. The wpb1 variety was crossed with Nipponbare to generate the F-2 and BC1F2 populations. Green and white panicle branch phenotypes with a 3:1 segregation ratio was observed in the F-2 population. Bulked segregant analysis (BSA) based on whole genome resequencing was conducted to determine the wpb1 locus. A candidate interval spanning from 11.35 to 23.79M (physical position) on chromosome 1 was identified. The results of BSA analysis were verified by a 40K rice SNP-array using the BC1F2 population. A large-scale F-2 population was used to pinpoint wpb1, and the locus was further narrowed down to a 95-kb interval. Furthermore, our results showed that the expression levels of the majority of the genes involved in Chl biosynthesis, photosynthesis and chloroplast development were remarkably affected in wpb1 variety and in F-2 plants with a white panicle branch phenotype. In line with the results mentioned above, anatomical structural examination and chlorophyll (Chl) content measurement suggested that wpb1 might play an important role in the regulation of chloroplast development. Further cloning and functional characterization of the wpb1 gene will shed light on the molecular mechanism underlying chloroplast development in rice.