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The abiotic stress-responsive NAC transcription factor SlNAC11 is involved in drought and salt response in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)

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Plant-specific NAC (NAM/ATAF/CUC) transcription factors play crucial roles in diverse development processes as well as biotic and abiotic stress responses. Nevertheless, to date only few reports regarding stress-related NAC genes are available in tomato. In this study, we isolated an abiotic stress-responsive NAC gene from tomato, here designated as SlNAC11. Expression analysis revealed that SlNAC11 was induced significantly by dehydration, cold, and heat. The functions of SlNAC11 in abiotic stress were further detected on SlNAC11-RNAi transgenic tomato plants. The results showed that SlNAC11-RNAi plants became less tolerant to drought and salt stress, which were demonstrated by lower level of chlorophyll content and seed germination rate, and higher level of MDA as compared to WT plants under stress conditions. Furthermore, transgenic seedlings exhibited less hypersensitive to ABA, demonstrated by longer hypocotyl and root as compared to WT plants. These results show that SlNAC11 functions as a stress-responsive transcription factor depicting positive response to abiotic stress tolerance and may hold promise for improving stress tolerance in transgenic tomato.

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Abbreviations

ABA:

Abscisic acid

ACC:

1-Amino cyclopropane-1carboxylic acid

Chl:

Chlorophyll

GA3:

Gibberellin acid

IAA:

Indole-3-acetic acid

MeJA:

Methyl jasmonate

MDA:

Malonaldehyde

MS:

Murashige and Skoog

ORF:

Open reading frame

FW:

Fresh weight

DW:

Dry weight

RT-PCR:

Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction

WT:

Wild-type

TF:

Transcription factor

TFs:

Transcription factors

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Prof Donald Grierson of BBSRC Research Group in Plant Gene Regulation, Plant Sciences Division, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UK for providing the AC++ (Ailsa Craig) seeds. We also thank all laboratory members for help, advice and discussion.

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GPC and MKZ contributed to conceive and design the experiment. LLW performed the experiments, data analyses and wrote the manuscript. ZZG and JTH contributed regents and analysis tools. ZLH and GQ provided technical support in writing the manuscript. All of the authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 30600044, 30871709, 31171968) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 106112015CDJZR235504).

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    Lingling Wang, Zongli Hu, Mingku Zhu, Zhiguo Zhu, **gtao Hu & Guo** Chen

  2. State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research (ICR), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, 450000, People’s Republic of China

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Wang, L., Hu, Z., Zhu, M. et al. The abiotic stress-responsive NAC transcription factor SlNAC11 is involved in drought and salt response in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.). Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult 129, 161–174 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11240-017-1167-x

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