Cytokinin Is Required to Induce the Nitrogen-Dependent Accumulation of mRNAs for Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase and Carbonic Anhydrase in Detached Maize Leaves
- 1 September 1992
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 100 (1), 153-156
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.100.1.153
Abstract
Previous studies with intact maize (Zea mays L.) plants indicated that phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) levels are controlled by nitrogen (N) availability and that this regulation is presumably at the transcriptional level (B. Sugiharto, K. Miyata, H. Nakamoto, H. Sasakawa, T. Sugiyama [1990] Plant Physiol 92: 963-969; B. Sugiharto, T. Sugiyama [1992] Plant Physiol 98: 1403-1408). In the present study, detached maize leaves were used to investigate further the mechanism of N-dependent regulation of gene expression in C(4) plants. PEPC and carbonic anhydrase (CA) mRNA levels decreased in leaves detached from maize plants. Addition of high nitrate did not prevent this decrease. However, the addition of zeatin to solutions bathing the cut ends of the detached leaves inhibited the decrease of PEPC and CA mRNA levels. Simultaneous addition of high nitrate and zeatin to leaves detached from N-deficient maize plants caused a large and rapid increase in PEPC and CA mRNA levels. Zeatin could be replaced by benzyladenine, but not by indoleacetic acid or abscisic acid. Both CA isozymes were effected and responded in an identical manner. We conclude that detached maize leaves provide an excellent experimental system to study the mechanism(s) of N-mediated regulation of PEPC and CA gene expression. However, zeatin is an essential component of this system.Keywords
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