JXB Advance Access originally published online on February 21, 2007
Journal of Experimental Botany 2007 58(6):1497-1503; doi:10.1093/jxb/erm011
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Indole-3-acetic acid and auxin herbicides up-regulate 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase gene expression and abscisic acid accumulation in cleavers (Galium aparine): interaction with ethylene
1BASF Agricultural Center Limburgerhof, D-67117 Limburgerhof, Germany
2BASF Plant Science, Limburgerhof, D-67117 Limburgerhof, Germany
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: klaus.grossmann{at}basf.com
Interaction between auxin and auxin-induced ethylene was suggested in previous work to up-regulate abscisic acid (ABA) biosynthesis in cleavers (Galium aparine) through stimulated cleavage of xanthophylls to xanthoxin, catalysed by 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (NCED). Here, the effects of auxin on NCED gene expression were studied in relation to changes in ethylene synthesis and ABA levels. A gene from G. aparine shoot tissue was cloned based on sequence similarity to cloned NCED genes from tomato (LeNCED1), potato, Phaseolus, and Arabidopsis. When the roots of G. aparine plants were treated with 0.5 mM indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), IAA concentrations increased from 0.2 µM to 65 µM IAA in the shoot tissue after 3 h. Transient increases in GaNCED1 mRNA levels were detectable as early as 1 h after treatment and reached maximum values of 40-fold, relative to the control, after 3 h. Increases in GaNCED1 mRNA preceded increases in 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid and ethylene. Levels of ABA began to increase more slowly and, significantly, with a lag phase of 2 h, and reached levels 24-fold higher than those in controls after 24 h. GaNCED1 gene expression was also stimulated by auxin herbicides. The ethylene-releasing compound ethephon induced GaNCED1 transcript levels only moderately. In accordance with this, aminoethoxyvinylglycine and cobalt ions, which inhibit ethylene synthesis, only slightly affected the increase in GaNCED1 transcript levels by IAA. However, both ethylene inhibitors decreased IAA-induced ABA accumulation by up to 70%. This suggests that auxin and auxin-induced ethylene are involved in ABA accumulation. While auxin is the primary trigger for NCED gene expression, ethylene appears to enhance ABA biosynthesis, possibly by up-regulation of NCED activity post-transcriptionally.
Key words: Abscisic acid, auxin herbicides, 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase, ethylene, Galium aparine, gene expression, indole-3-acetic acid
Received 15 October 2006; Revised 5 January 2007 Accepted 9 January 2007
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