Novel exotic alleles of EARLY FLOWERING 3 determine plant development in barley

© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology..

EARLY FLOWERING 3 (ELF3) is an important regulator of various physiological and developmental processes and hence may serve to improve plant adaptation which will be essential for future plant breeding. To expand the limited knowledge on barley ELF3 in determining agronomic traits, we conducted field studies with heterogeneous inbred families (HIFs) derived from selected lines of the wild barley nested association mapping population HEB-25. During two growing seasons, phenotypes of nearly isogenic HIF sister lines, segregating for exotic and cultivated alleles at the ELF3 locus, were compared for 10 developmental and yield-related traits. We determine novel exotic ELF3 alleles and show that HIF lines, carrying the exotic ELF3 allele, accelerated plant development compared with the cultivated ELF3 allele, depending on the genetic background. Remarkably, the most extreme effects on phenology could be attributed to one exotic ELF3 allele differing from the cultivated Barke ELF3 allele in only one single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP). This SNP causes an amino acid substitution (W669G), which as predicted has an impact on the protein structure of ELF3. Consequently, it may affect phase separation behaviour and nano-compartment formation of ELF3 and, potentially, also its local cellular interactions causing significant trait differences between HIF sister lines.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:74

Enthalten in:

Journal of experimental botany - 74(2023), 12 vom: 27. Juni, Seite 3630-3650

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zahn, Tanja [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Zihao [VerfasserIn]
Ritoff, Niklas [VerfasserIn]
Krapf, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Junker, Astrid [VerfasserIn]
Altmann, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Schmutzer, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Tüting, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Kastritis, Panagiotis L [VerfasserIn]
Babben, Steve [VerfasserIn]
Quint, Marcel [VerfasserIn]
Pillen, Klaus [VerfasserIn]
Maurer, Andreas [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Alphafold2
Disorder-to-order transition
EARLY FLOWERING 3 (ELF3)
Flowering time
HEB-25
Heterogeneous inbred family (HIF)
Hordeum vulgare
Journal Article
Phase separation
Plant development
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Wild barley

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Date Completed 29.06.2023

Date Revised 01.07.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/jxb/erad127

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM355150573