Timing the switch to phototrophic growth: a possible role of GUN1.

Plant Signal Behav

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Published: April 2011

In young Arabidopsis seedlings, retrograde signalling from plastids regulates the expression of photosynthesis-associated nuclear genes in response to the developmental and functional state of the chloroplasts. The chloroplast-located PPR protein GUN1 is required for signalling following disruption of plastid protein synthesis early in seedling development before full photosynthetic competence has been achieved. Recently we showed that sucrose repression and the correct temporal expression of LHCB1, encoding a light-harvesting chlorophyll protein associated with photosystem II, are perturbed in gun1 mutant seedlings. ( 1) Additionally, we demonstrated that in gun1 seedlings anthocyanin accumulation and the expression of the "early" anthocyanin-biosynthesis genes is perturbed. Early seedling development, predominantly at the stage of hypocotyl elongation and cotyledon expansion, is also affected in gun1 seedlings in response to sucrose, ABA and disruption of plastid protein synthesis by lincomycin. These findings indicate a central role for GUN1 in plastid, sucrose and ABA signalling in early seedling development. 

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