Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-21-2013
Publication Title
PLoS Genetics
Department
Department of Biological Sciences
Abstract
Iron is essential for photosynthesis and is often a limiting nutrient for plant productivity. Plants respond to conditions of iron deficiency by increasing transcript abundance of key genes involved in iron homeostasis, but only a few regulators of these genes have been identified. Using genome-wide expression analysis, we searched for transcription factors that are induced within 24 hours after transferring plants to iron-deficient growth conditions. Out of nearly 100 transcription factors shown to be up-regulated, we identified MYB10 and MYB72 as the most highly induced transcription factors. Here, we show that MYB10 and MYB72 are functionally redundant and are required for plant survival in alkaline soil where iron availability is greatly restricted. myb10myb72 double mutants fail to induce transcript accumulation of the nicotianamine synthase gene NAS4. Both myb10myb72 mutants and nas4-1 mutants have reduced iron concentrations, chlorophyll levels, and shoot mass under iron-limiting conditions, indicating that these genes are essential for proper plant growth. The double myb10myb72 mutant also showed nickel and zinc sensitivity, similar to the nas4 mutant. Ectopic expression of NAS4 rescues myb10myb72 plants, suggesting that loss of NAS4 is the primary defect in these plants and emphasizes the importance of nicotianamine, an iron chelator, in iron homeostasis. Overall, our results provide evidence that MYB10 and MYB72 act early in the iron-deficiency regulatory cascade to drive gene expression of NAS4 and are essential for plant survival under iron deficiency.
DOI
10.1371/journal.pgen.1003953
Original Citation
Palmer CM, Hindt MN, Schmidt H, Clemens S, Guerinot ML. MYB10 and MYB72 are required for growth under iron-limiting conditions. PLoS Genet. 2013 Nov;9(11):e1003953. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003953. Epub 2013 Nov 21. PMID: 24278034; PMCID: PMC3836873.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Palmer, Christine M.; Hindt, Maria N.; Schmidt, Holger; Clemens, Stephan; and Guerinot, Mary Lou, "MYB10 and MYB72 are Required for Growth under Iron-Limiting Conditions" (2013). Dartmouth Scholarship. 2959.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/2959
