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Leaf development in plants, including dorsoventral (adaxial–abaxial) patterning, is tightly regulated. The involvement of several subunits of the 26S proteasome in adaxial–abaxial polarity establishment has been reported. In the present study, we revealed that in  Arabidopsis thaliana , a mutation in  RPT5A , a subunit of 26S proteasome, causes abnormally narrow true leaves under zinc deficiency. mRNA accumulations of DNA damage marker genes in leaves were elevated by zinc deficiency.  PARP2 , a single-strand break (SSB) inducible gene, was more strongly induced by zinc deficiency in  rpt5a  mutants compared with the wild type. A comet assay indicated that SSB is enhanced in mutants grown under the zinc deficiency condition. These results suggest that SSB accumulation is accompanied by abnormal leaf development. To test if DNA damage is a sole cause of abnormal leaf development, we treated the wild type grown under normal zinc conditions with zeocin, a DNA damage-inducing reagent, and found that narrow leaves developed, suggesting that DNA damage is sufficient to induce the development of abnormally narrow leaves. Taken together with the observation of the abnormal leaf morphology of our mutant plant under zinc deficiency, we demonstrated that the alleviation of DNA damage is important for normal leaf development.

Abnormal leaf development of rpt5a mutant under zinc deficiency reveals important role of DNA damage alleviation for normal leaf development