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Alteration of Hormone Levels in Transgenic Tobacco Plants
Overexpressing the Rice Homeobox Gene OSH1
Shinnosuke Kusaba,
Yuriko Kano-Murakami*,
Makoto Matsuoka,
Masanori Tamaoki,
Tomoaki Sakamoto,
Isomaro Yamaguchi, and
Masashi Fukumoto
Division of Pomology, National Institute of Fruit Tree Science,
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan (S.K., Y.K.-M., M.F.); BioScience Center,
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-01, Japan (M.M., M.T.); Doctoral
Program in Agricultural Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba,
Ibaraki 305, Japan (T.S.); and Faculty of Agriculture, The
University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan (I.Y.)
The rice (Oryza sativa
L.) homeobox gene OSH1 causes morphological alterations
when ectopically expressed in transgenic rice, Arabidopsis
thaliana, and tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) and
is therefore believed to function as a morphological regulator gene. To
determine the relationship between OSH1 expression and
morphological alterations, we analyzed the changes in hormone levels in
transgenic tobacco plants exhibiting abnormal morphology. Levels of the
plant hormones indole-3-acetic acid, abscisic acid, gibberellin (GA), and cytokinin (zeatin and trans-zeatin [Z]) were
measured in leaves of OSH1-transformed and wild-type
tobacco. Altered plant morphology was found to correlate with changes
in hormone levels. The more severe the alteration in phenotype of
transgenic tobacco, the greater were the changes in endogenous hormone
levels. Overall, GA1 and GA4 levels decreased
and abscisic acid levels increased compared with wild-type plants.
Moreover, in the transformants, Z (active form of cytokinin) levels
were higher and the ratio of Z to Z riboside (inactive form) also
increased. When GA3 was supplied to the shoot apex of
transformants, internode extension was restored and normal leaf
morphology was also partially restored. However, such
GA3-treated plants still exhibited some morphological abnormalities compared with wild-type plants. Based on these data, we
propose the hypothesis that OSH1 affects plant hormone
metabolism either directly or indirectly and thereby causes changes in
plant development.
*
Corresponding author; e-mail kanoh{at}fruit.affrc.go.jp; fax
81-298-38-6437.
Plant Physiol. (1998) 116: 471-476
Copyright Clearance Center: 0032-0889/98/116/0471/06
© 1998 American Society of Plant Physiologists
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