Plant Physiology Preview Published on March 22, 2002; 10.1104/pp.010917
Received October 9, 2001
Returned for revision November 15, 2001
Accepted January 20, 2002
Mutants at the Slender1 Locus of Barley cv Himalaya.
Molecular and Physiological Characterization
Peter Michael Chandler *, Annie Marion-Poll , Marc Ellis , and Frank Gubler
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Plant Industry, G.P.O. Box 1600, Canberra, Australian Capitol Territory 2601, Australia (P.M.C., A.M.-P., M.E., F.G.); and Laboratory of Seed Biology, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 78026 Versailles cedex, France (A.M.-P.)
* Corresponding author; email: peter.chandler{at}csiro.au.
A dominant dwarf mutant of barley (Hordeum vulgare) that resembles dominant gibberellin (GA) "-insensitive" or "-nonresponsive" mutants in other species is described. -Amylase production by endosperm half-grains of the mutant required GA3 at concentrations about 100 times that of the WT. The mutant showed only a slight growth response to GA3, even at very high concentrations. However, when additionally dwarfed, growth rate responded to GA3 over the normal concentration range, although only back to the original (dwarf) elongation rate. Genetic studies indicated that the dominant dwarf locus was either closely linked or identical to the Sln1 (Slender1) locus. A barley sequence related to Arabidopsis GAI/RGA was isolated, and shown to represent the Sln1 locus by the analysis of sln1 mutants. The dominant dwarf mutant was also altered in this sequence, indicating that it too is an allele at Sln1. Thus, mutations at Sln1 generate plants of radically different phenotypes; either dwarfs that are largely dominant and GA "-insensitive/-nonresponsive," or the recessive slender types in which GA responses appear to be constitutive. Immunoblotting studies showed that in growing leaves, SLN1 protein localized almost exclusively to the leaf elongation zone. In mutants at the Sln1 locus, there were differences in both the abundance and distribution of SLN1 protein, and large changes in the amounts of bioactive GAs, and of their metabolic precursors and catabolites. These results suggest that there are dynamic interactions between SLN1 protein and GA content in determining leaf elongation rate.
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