Masakazu Tomiyama, Shin-Ichiro Inoue, Tomo Tsuzuki, Midori Soda, Sayuri Morimoto, Yukiko Okigaki, Takaya Ohishi, Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Koji Takahashi, Toshinori Kinoshita
Journal of plant research 2014 JulTo elucidate the molecular mechanisms of stomatal opening and closure, we performed a genetic screen using infrared thermography to isolate stomatal aperture mutants. We identified a mutant designated low temperature with open-stomata 1 (lost1), which exhibited reduced leaf temperature, wider stomatal aperture, and a pale green phenotype. Map-based analysis of the LOST1 locus revealed that the lost1 mutant resulted from a missense mutation in the Mg-chelatase I subunit 1 (CHLI1) gene, which encodes a subunit of the Mg-chelatase complex involved in chlorophyll synthesis. Transformation of the wild-type CHLI1 gene into lost1 complemented all lost1 phenotypes. Stomata in lost1 exhibited a partial ABA-insensitive phenotype similar to that of rtl1, a Mg-chelatase H subunit missense mutant. The Mg-protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase (CHLM) gene encodes a subsequent enzyme in the chlorophyll synthesis pathway. We examined stomatal movement in a CHLM knockdown mutant, chlm, and found that it also exhibited an ABA-insensitive phenotype. However, lost1 and chlm seedlings all showed normal expression of ABA-induced genes, such as RAB18 and RD29B, in response to ABA. These results suggest that the chlorophyll synthesis enzymes, Mg-chelatase complex and CHLM, specifically affect ABA signaling in the control of stomatal aperture and have no effect on ABA-induced gene expression.
Masakazu Tomiyama, Shin-Ichiro Inoue, Tomo Tsuzuki, Midori Soda, Sayuri Morimoto, Yukiko Okigaki, Takaya Ohishi, Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Koji Takahashi, Toshinori Kinoshita. Mg-chelatase I subunit 1 and Mg-protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase affect the stomatal aperture in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of plant research. 2014 Jul;127(4):553-63
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