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Published on October 3, 2008; 10.1104/pp.108.126912

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Received July 23, 2008
Accepted September 29, 2008

F-box Protein DOR Functions as a Novel Inhibitory Factor for ABA-induced Stomatal Closure under Drought Stress in Arabidopsis thaliana

Yu'e Zhang , Wenying Xu , Zhonghui Li , Xing Wang Deng , Weihua Wu , and Yongbiao Xue *

Department of Plant Sciences, College of Biological Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China; Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Beijing 100080, China; Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8104, USA

* Corresponding author; email: ybxue{at}genetics.ac.cn.

Guard cells, which form stoma in leaf epidermis, sense and integrate environmental signals to modulate stomatal aperture in response to diverse conditions. Under drought stress, plants synthesize abscisic acid (ABA), which in turn induces a rapid closing of stoma, to prevent water loss by transpiration. However, many aspects of the molecular mechanism for ABA-mediated stomatal closure are still not understood. Here we report a novel negative regulator of guard cell ABA signaling, DOR, in Arabidopsis thaliana. The DOR gene encodes a putative F-box protein, a member of AtSFL (S-locus F-box-Like) family related to AhSLF-S2 and specifically interacting with ASK14 and Cul1. A null mutation in DOR resulted in a hypersensitive ABA response of stomatal closing and a substantial increase of drought tolerance; in contrast, the transgenic plants overexpressing DOR were more susceptible to the drought stress. The DOR is strongly expressed in guard cells and suppressed by ABA treatment, suggesting a negative feedback loop of DOR in ABA responses. Double-mutant analyses of dor with ABA-insensitive mutant abi1-1 showed that abi1-1 is epistatic to dor, but no apparent change of PLD{alpha}1 was detected between the wild type and dor. Affymetrix GeneChip analysis showed that DOR likely regulates ABA biosynthesis under drought stress. Taken together, our results demonstrate that DOR acts independent of PLD{alpha}1 in an ABA signaling pathway to inhibit the ABA-induced stomatal closure under drought stress.




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