Functional Divergence of the Arabidopsis Florigen-Interacting bZIP Transcription Factors FD and FDP
Functional Divergence of the Arabidopsis Florigen-Interacting bZIP Transcription Factors FD and FDP
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10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107717
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2020-06
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Maida Romera-Branchat;E. Severing;Chloé Pocard;Hyonhwa Ohr;C. Vincent;G. Née;Rafael Martínez-Gallegos-Rafael-Martínez-Gal
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Maida Romera-Branchat;E. Severing;Chloé Pocard;Hyonhwa Ohr;C. Vincent;G. Née;Rafael Martínez-Gallegos-Rafael-Martínez-Gal
Flowering of many plant species depends on interactions between basic leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factors and systemically transported florigen proteins. Members of the genusArabidopsiscontain two of these bZIPs, FD and FDP, which we show have largely complementary expression patterns in shoot apices before and during flowering. CRISPR-Cas9-induced null mutants forFDPflower slightly earlier than wild-type, whereasfdmutants are late flowering. Identical G-box sequences are enriched at FD and FDP binding sites, but only FD binds to genes involved in flowering and onlyfdalters their transcription. However, both proteins bind to genes involved in responses to the phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA), which controls developmental and stress responses. Many of these genes are differentially expressed in bothfdandfdpmutant seedlings, which also show reduced ABA sensitivity. Thus, florigen-interacting bZIPs have distinct functions in flowering dependent on their expression patterns and, at earlier stages in development, play common roles in phytohormone signaling.