New Alleles of Rice ebisu dwarf (d2) Mutant Show both Brassinosteroid-Deficient and -Insensitive Phenotypes

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ABSTRACT

ebisu dwarf (d2) is a mutant caused by mutation in a rice brassinosteroid biosynthetic enzyme gene, CYP90D2/D2, thereby conferring a brassinosteroid-deficient dwarf phenotype. Three newly isolated d2 alleles derived from a Nippon- bare mutant library (d2-3, d2-4, and d2-6) produced more severe dwarf phenotypes than the previously characterized null allele from a Taichung 65 mutant library, d2-1. Linkage analysis and a complementation test clearly indicated that the mutant phenotypes in d2-6 were caused by defects in CYP90D2/D2, and exogenous treatment with brassinolide, a bioactive brassinosteroid, rescued the dwarf phenotype of three Nipponbare-derived d2 mutants. However, the content of endogenous bioactive brassinosteroid, castasterone, and the expression of brassinosteroid-response genes indicated that partial suppression of the brassinosteroid response in addition to a brassinosteroid deficiency has occurred in the Nipponbare-derived d2 mutants. Based on these results, we discuss the possibility that wild-type Nipponbare has some defects in an unknown factor or factors related to the brassinosteroid response in rice.

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T. Sakamoto, Y. Morinaka, H. Kitano and S. Fujioka, "New Alleles of Rice ebisu dwarf (d2) Mutant Show both Brassinosteroid-Deficient and -Insensitive Phenotypes," American Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 3 No. 12, 2012, pp. 1699-1707. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2012.312208.

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