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The transcriptional regulator BBX24 impairs DELLA activity to promote shade avoidance in Arabidopsis thaliana

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  • Carlos D. Crocco

    (IFEVA, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
    Present address: Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Sciences III, 30 Quai E. Ansermet, Geneva 4, 1211, Switzerland)

  • Antonella Locascio

    (Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
    Food, Natural Resources, Animals and the Environment (DAFNAE), Padova University)

  • Cristian M. Escudero

    (IFEVA, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)

  • David Alabadí

    (Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)

  • Miguel A. Blázquez

    (Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)

  • Javier F. Botto

    (IFEVA, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)

Abstract

In response to canopy shade, plant vegetative structures elongate to gain access to light. However, the mechanism that allows a plastic transcriptional response to canopy shade light is not fully elucidated. Here we propose that the activity of PIF4, a key transcription factor in the shade signalling network, is modulated by the interplay between the BBX24 transcriptional regulator and DELLA proteins, which are negative regulators of the gibberellin (GA) signalling pathway. We show that GA-related targets are enriched among genes responsive to BBX24 under shade and that the shade-response defect in bbx24 mutants is rescued by a GA treatment that promotes DELLA degradation. BBX24 physically interacts with DELLA proteins and alleviates DELLA-mediated repression of PIF4 activity. The proposed molecular mechanism provides reversible regulation of the activity of a key transcription factor that may prove especially relevant under fluctuating light conditions.

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  • Carlos D. Crocco & Antonella Locascio & Cristian M. Escudero & David Alabadí & Miguel A. Blázquez & Javier F. Botto, 2015. "The transcriptional regulator BBX24 impairs DELLA activity to promote shade avoidance in Arabidopsis thaliana," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 6(1), pages 1-10, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:6:y:2015:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms7202
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7202
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