The Flowering Repressor SVP Confers Drought Resistance in Arabidopsis by Regulating Abscisic Acid Catabolism

By Zhen Wang, Fuxing Wang, Yechun Hong, Juanjuan Yao, Z. Ren, Huazhong Shi, Jian‐Kang Zhu. Molecular Plant, 2018

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Abstract Terrestrial plants must cope with drought stress to survive. Under drought stress, plants accumulate the phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) by increasing its biosynthesis and decreasing its catabolism. However, the regulatory pathways controlling ABA catabolism in response to drought remain largely unclear. Here, we report that the flowering repressor SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (SVP) is induced by drought stress and associates with the promoter regions of the ABA catabolism pathway genes CYP707A1, CYP707A3 and AtBG1, causing decreased expression of CYP707A1 and CYP707A3 but enhanced expression of AtBG1 in Arabidopsis leaves. Loss-of-function mutations in CYP707A1 and CYP707A3 or overexpression of AtBG1 could rescue the drought-hypersensitive phenotype of svp mutant plants by increasing cellular ABA levels. Collectively, our results suggest that SVP is a central regulator of ABA catabolism and that a regulatory pathway involving SVP, CYP707A1/3, and AtBG1 plays a critical role in plant response to water deficit and plant drought resistance.

Subfields: Plant Science

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