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ORA47 (octadecanoid‐responsive AP2/ERF‐domain transcription factor 47) regulates jasmonic acid and abscisic acid biosynthesis and signaling through binding to a novel cis ‐element
Author(s) -
Chen HsingYu,
Hsieh EnJung,
Cheng MeiChun,
Chen ChienYu,
Hwang ShihYing,
Lin TsanPiao
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/nph.13914
Subject(s) - abscisic acid , jasmonic acid , transcription factor , biosynthesis , arabidopsis , microbiology and biotechnology , jasmonate , chromatin immunoprecipitation , biochemistry , arabidopsis thaliana , biology , promoter , chemistry , gene , gene expression , mutant
SummaryORA47 ( octadecanoid‐responsive AP2/ERF‐domain transcription factor 47 ) of Arabidopsis thaliana is an AP2/ERF domain transcription factor that regulates jasmonate (JA) biosynthesis and is induced by methyl JA treatment. The regulatory mechanism of ORA47 remains unclear. ORA47 is shown to bind to the cis ‐element (NC/GT)CGNCCA, which is referred to as the O‐box, in the promoter of ABI2 . We proposed that ORA47 acts as a connection between ABA INSENSITIVE1 ( ABI1 ) and ABI2 and mediates an ABI1–ORA47–ABI2 positive feedback loop. PORA47:ORA47‐GFP transgenic plants were used in a chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay to show that ORA47 participates in the biosynthesis and/or signaling pathways of nine phytohormones. Specifically, many abscisic acid (ABA) and JA biosynthesis and signaling genes were direct targets of ORA47 under stress conditions. The JA content of the P35S:ORA47‐GR lines was highly induced under wounding and moderately induced under water stress relative to that of the wild‐type plants. The wounding treatment moderately increased ABA accumulation in the transgenic lines, whereas the water stress treatment repressed the ABA content. ORA47 is proposed to play a role in the biosynthesis of JA and ABA and in regulating the biosynthesis and/or signaling of a suite of phytohormone genes when plants are subjected to wounding and water stress.