作 者：Qingguo Du, Kai Wang, Cheng Zou, Cheng Xu, Wen-Xue Li

　　影响因子：5.949

　　刊物名称：Plant Physiology

　　出版年份：July 2018

　　doi：10.1104/pp.18.00034

　　文章摘要 : 

　　The regulation of adaptive responses to phosphorus (P) deficiency by the microRNA399 (miR399)/PHOSPHATE2 (PHO2) pathway has been well studied in Arabidopsis thaliana but not in maize (Zea mays). Here, we show that miR399 transcripts are strongly induced in maize by phosphate (Pi) deficiency. Transgenic maize plants that over-expressed MIR399b accumulated excessive amounts of P in their shoots and displayed typical Pi-toxicity phenotypes. We re-annotated ZmPHO2 with an additional 1165 bp of the 5'-untranslated region. miR399-guided post-transcriptional repression of ZmPHO2 was mainly observed in the P-efficient lines. We identified Pi-deficiency-induced long non-coding RNA 1 (PILNCR1) from our strand-specific RNA libraries. Transient expression assays in Nicotiana benthamiana and maize leaf protoplasts demonstrated that PILNCR1 inhibits ZmmiR399-guided cleavage of ZmPHO2. The abundance of PILNCR1 was significantly higher in P-inefficient lines than in P-efficient lines, which is consistent with the abundance of ZmmiR399 transcripts. These results indicate that the interaction between PILNCR1 and miR399 is important for tolerance to low Pi in maize.

　　下载链接：http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/early/2018/07/02/pp.18.00034.full.pdf