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Characterization and Mapping of a Rolling Leaf Mutant Allele rlT73 on Chromosome 1BL of Wheat

Leaf rolling is regarded as an important morphological trait in wheat breeding. Moderate leaf rolling is helpful to keep leaves upright and improve the photosynthesis of plants, leading to increased yield. However, studies on the identification of genomic regions/genes associated with rolling leaf h...

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Published in:International journal of molecular sciences 2024-04, Vol.25 (7), p.4103
Main Authors: Huang, Lin, Gan, Meijuan, Zhao, Wenzhuo, Hu, Yanling, Du, Lilin, Li, Yuqin, Zeng, Kanghui, Wu, Dandan, Hao, Ming, Ning, Shunzong, Yuan, Zhongwei, Feng, Lihua, Zhang, Lianquan, Wu, Bihua, Liu, Dengcai
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Summary:Leaf rolling is regarded as an important morphological trait in wheat breeding. Moderate leaf rolling is helpful to keep leaves upright and improve the photosynthesis of plants, leading to increased yield. However, studies on the identification of genomic regions/genes associated with rolling leaf have been reported less frequently in wheat. In this study, a rolling leaf mutant, T73, which has paired spikelets, dwarfism, and delayed heading traits, was obtained from a common wheat landrace through ethyl methanesulfonate mutagenesis. The mutation caused an increase in the number of epidermal cells on the abaxial side and the shrinkage of bulliform cells on the adaxial side, leading to an adaxially rolling leaf phenotype. Genetic analysis showed that the rolling leaf phenotype was controlled by a single recessive gene. Further Wheat55K single nucleotide polymorphism array-based bulked segregant analysis and molecular marker mapping delimited to a physical interval of 300.29-318.33 Mb on the chromosome arm 1BL in the Chinese Spring genome. We show that a point mutation at the miRNA165/166 binding site of the HD zipper class III transcription factor on 1BL altered its transcriptional level, which may be responsible for the rolling leaf phenotype. Our results suggest the important role of in regulating wheat leaf development and the potential of miRNA-based gene regulation for crop trait improvement.
ISSN:1422-0067
1661-6596
1422-0067
DOI:10.3390/ijms25074103