Overexpression of LSH1, a member of an uncharacterised gene family, causes enhanced light regulation of seedling development

Li Zhao, Miki Nakazawa, Tomoyuki Takase, Katsushi Manabe, Masatomo Kobayashi, Motoaki Seki, Kazuo Shinozaki, Minami Matsui

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Abstract

Light regulates plant growth and development through a network of endogenous factors. By screening Arabidopsis activation-tagged lines, we isolated a dominant mutant (light-dependent short hypocotyls 1-D (Ish1-D)) that showed hypersensitive responses to continuous red (cR), far-red (cFR) and blue (cB) light and cloned the corresponding gene, LSH1. LSH1 encodes a nuclear protein of a novel gene family that has homologues in Arabidopsis and rice. The effects of the Ish1-D mutation were tested in a series of photoreceptor mutant backgrounds. The hypersensitivity to cFR and cB light conferred by Ish1-D was abolished in a phyA null background (phyA-201), and the hypersensitivity to cR and cFR light conferred by Ish1-D was much reduced in the phytochrome- chromophore synthetic mutant, hy1-1 (long hypocotyl 1). These results indicate that LSH1 is functionally dependent on phytochrome to mediate light regulation of seedling development.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)694-706
Number of pages13
JournalPlant Journal
Volume37
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2004
Externally publishedYes

Keywords*

  • Activation tagging
  • Arabidopsis
  • Light
  • LSH1
  • New gene family
  • Photoreceptors

Field of Science*

  • 1.6 Biological sciences

Publication Type*

  • 1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database

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