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20 January 2014 Identification of regulatory genes to improve nitrogen use efficiency
David R. Guevara, Yong-Mei Bi, Steven J. Rothstein
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Guevara, D. R., Bi, Y.-M. and Rothstein, S. J. 2014. Identification of regulatory genes to improve nitrogen use efficiency. Can. J. Plant Sci. 94: 1009-1012. Crop production on soils containing sub-optimal levels of nitrogen (N) severely compromises yield potential. The development of crop varieties displaying high N use efficiency (NUE) is necessary in order to optimize N fertilizer use, and reduce the environmental damage caused by the current excessive application of N in agricultural areas. Genome-wide microarray analysis of rice plants grown under N-limiting environments was performed to identify NUE candidate genes. An early nodulin gene, OsENOD93-1, was strongly up-regulated during plant growth under low N. A constitutive Ubiquitin promoter was used to drive the expression of the OsENOD93-1 gene in transgenic plants to determine the importance of OsENOD93-1 for rice NUE. Transgenic rice plants over-expressing the OsENOD93-1 gene achieved ~23% and 16% more yield and biomass, respectively, compared with wild-type plants when grown under N-limitation conditions. OsENOD93-1-OX transgenic plants accumulated a higher amount of total amino acids in the roots and xylem sap under N stress, suggesting that OsENOD93-1 plays a role in the transportation of amino acids. Taken together, we demonstrate that an effective way to identify NUE gene candidates involves both transcriptional profiling coupled with a transgenic validation approach to improve complex traits such as NUE in important crops.

David R. Guevara, Yong-Mei Bi, and Steven J. Rothstein "Identification of regulatory genes to improve nitrogen use efficiency," Canadian Journal of Plant Science 94(6), 1009-1012, (20 January 2014). https://doi.org/10.1139/CJPS2013-369
Received: 13 May 2013; Accepted: 1 January 2014; Published: 20 January 2014
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adaptation à la carence d'azote
assimilation de l'azote
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