Rice GIBBERELLIN INSENSITIVE DWARF1 is a gibberellin receptor that illuminates and raises questions about GA signaling
Rice GIBBERELLIN INSENSITIVE DWARF1 is a gibberellin receptor that illuminates and raises questions about GA signaling
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DOI:
10.1105/tpc.105.039958
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发表时间:
2006-02-01
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11.6
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Olszewski, NE
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作者:
Hartweck, LM;Olszewski, NE
Recently, gibberellins (GAs) joined the list of plant hormones with a known receptor protein with the report by Ueguchi-Tanaka et al.(2005) that the GIBBERELLIN INSENSITIVE DWARF1 (GID1) protein of rice has the expected properties of the long-sought GA receptor. This exciting discovery not only provides a major new piece to the puzzle of the GA signal transduction pathway but also raises new questions and calls into question some long-held assumptions concerning the topology of the pathway.GAs are tetracyclic diterpenoids that act at all stages in the plant life cycle by promoting germination, hypocotyl elongation, phase transitions, root, leaf, stem, and fruit growth, greening of leaves, flowering, and flower and seed development. In addition, they have been implicated in meristem function and recently have been shown to inhibit cytokinin action (Greenboim-Wainberg et al., 2005). GA action, biosynthesis, and signaling have been the subject of several recent reviews (Sponsel, 1995; Olszewski et al., 2002; Sakamoto et al., 2004; Sun and Gubler, 2004; Swain and Singh, 2005). In this essay, we summarize the steps leading to the discovery that GID1 functions as a GA receptor and discuss remaining questions concerning GA signal transduction.