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Novel exotic alleles of EARLY FLOWERING 3 determine plant development in barley

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Zahn, Tanja, Zhu, Zihao, Ritoff, Niklas, Krapf, Jonathan, Junker, Astrid, Altmann, Thomas, Schmutzer, Thomas, Tüting, Christian, Kastritis, Panagiotis L, Babben, Steve, Quint, Marcel, Pillen, Klaus, Maurer, Andreas·2023·Journal of Experimental Botany
DOI 10.1093/jxb/erad127PMC PMC10299785

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EARLY FLOWERING 3 (ELF3) is an important regulator of various physiological and developmental processes and hence may serve to improve plant adaptation which will be essential for future plant breeding. To expand the limited knowledge on barley ELF3 in determining agronomic traits, we conducted field studies with heterogeneous inbred families (HIFs) derived from selected lines of the wild barley nested association mapping population HEB-25. During two growing seasons, phenotypes of nearly isogenic HIF sister lines, segregating for exotic and cultivated alleles at the ELF3 locus, were compared for 10 developmental and yield-related traits. We determine novel exotic ELF3 alleles and show that HIF lines, carrying the exotic ELF3 allele, accelerated plant development compared with the cultivated ELF3 allele, depending on the genetic background. Remarkably, the most extreme effects on phenology could be attributed to one exotic ELF3 allele differing from the cultivated Barke ELF3 allele in only one single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP). This SNP causes an amino acid substitution (W669G), which as predicted has an impact on the protein structure of ELF3. Consequently, it may affect phase separation behaviour and nano-compartment formation of ELF3 and, potentially, also its local cellular interactions causing significant trait differences between HIF sister lines.

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Authors
Zahn, T., Zhu, Z., Ritoff, N., Krapf, J., Junker, A., Altmann, T., Schmutzer, T., Tüting, C., Kastritis, P. L., Babben, S., Quint, M., Pillen, K., & Maurer, A.
Affiliations
  • Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (DE)
  • Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK) (DE)
  • German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (DE)
Corresponding author
Maurer, Andreas
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Venue
Journal of Experimental Botany
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2023-04-03
Volume
74
Issue
12
Pages
3630-3650
ISSN
  • 0022-0957 (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-2431
DOI
10.1093/jxb/erad127
PMC
PMC10299785
OpenAlex
W4362506139
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Funders
  • European Social Fund
  • Federal Ministry for Education and Research (03Z22HN23, 03Z22HI2, and 03COV04)
  • European Regional Development Fund (ZS/2016/04/78115)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (391498659)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Genetics and Plant Breeding
Keywords
EARLY FLOWERING 3, ELF3, barley, wild barley, nested association mapping, plant development, phenology, yield components, single nucleotide polymorphisms, amino acid substitutions, protein phase separation, genetic background effects
MeSH terms
Plant Breeding, Alleles, Hordeum, Chromosome Mapping, Quantitative Trait Loci, Plant Development

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