Alternative Splicing of VRF1 Acts as a Molecular Switch to Regulate Stress-Induced Early Flowering
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ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis Thaliana
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Yinggao Liu
PROVIDER: PXD056388 | iProX | Mon Sep 30 00:00:00 BST 2024
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Alternative splicing of VRF1 acts as a molecular switch to regulate stress-induced early flowering.
Chen Mo-Xian MX Tian Yuan Y Zhu Fu-Yuan FY Fan Tao T Yan Hong-Xue HX Sun Peng-Cheng PC Li Min M Hou Xuan-Xuan XX Lin Ping P Song Yu-Chen YC Yang Xue X Lu Cong-Ming CM Yang Jian-Chang JC Reddy Anireddy S N ASN Zhang Jian-Hua JH Liu Ying-Gao YG
Cell reports 20241102 11
Plants frequently evade extreme environmental stress by initiating early flowering, yet the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Here, through extensive mutant screening, we identify a vegetative growth to reproductive growth transition factor (vrf1) mutant, which exhibits a deficiency in drought escape. Alternative splicing of VRF1 generates four isoforms, of which two encode functional proteins, VRF1-AS1 and VRF1-AS3. The proportions of VRF1-AS1 and VRF1-AS3 are modulated by e ...[more]
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