Metabolic control of seedling development by invertases
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by CSIRO Publishing in Functional Plant Biology
- Vol. 34 (6), 508-516
- https://doi.org/10.1071/fp06206
Abstract
Invertases are important enzymes in higher plants, which are involved in regulating developmental processes and responses to external factors. In a functional approach the role of invertases was investigated using transgenic plants ectopically expressing inhibitor proteins to decrease invertase activity. For generating specific effects, these inhibitor proteins were expressed in Arabidopsis under the control of synthetic promoters consisting of tetramers of pathogen-inducible elements, which were reported to yield low constitutive expression. Unexpectedly, seedling growth of putative transgenic plants was arrested at the four-leaf stage. Analysis of β-glucuronidase activity of corresponding reporter gene lines showed a correlation of the growth arrest with high activity of these promoters in seedlings grown under tissue culture conditions. The negative effect of invertase inhibition on seedling growth was substantiated by transgenic tobacco plants expressing an invertase inhibitor under control of a tetracycline inducible promoter. Ectopic induction of the invertase inhibitor during early seedling development resulted in a reduced fresh weight of seedlings. The importance of invertase in seedling development is further supported by results of expression profiling of invertases in Arabidopsis, which was confirmed by expression analyses. The mRNA for the vacuolar invertases Atßfruct3 and Atßfruct4 and cell wall invertase AtcwINV1 are specifically and strongly expressed during seedling development. These complementing results show that invertase activity is required for normal seedling development.This publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
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