W3 Is a New Wax Locus That Is Essential for Biosynthesis of beta-Diketone, Development of Glaucousness, and Reduction of Cuticle Permeability in Common Wheat

dc.citationZhang, Z., . . . & Wanlong, Li. (2015). W3 Is a New Wax Locus That Is Essential for Biosynthesis of β-Diketone, Development of Glaucousness, and Reduction of Cuticle Permeability in Common Wheat. PLoS One, 10(10), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140524
dc.citation.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0140524
dc.citation.epage21
dc.citation.issn1932-6203
dc.citation.issue10
dc.citation.jtitlePLoS One
dc.citation.spage21
dc.citation.spage1
dc.citation.volume10
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Z. Z.
dc.contributor.authorWei, W. J.
dc.contributor.authorZhu, H. L.
dc.contributor.authorChalla, G. S.
dc.contributor.authorBi, C. L.
dc.contributor.authorTrick, Harold N.
dc.contributor.authorLi, W. L.
dc.contributor.authoreidhnt
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-06T15:14:24Z
dc.date.available2016-04-06T15:14:24Z
dc.date.issued2015-10-15
dc.date.published2015
dc.descriptionCitation: Zhang, Z. Z., Wei, W. J., Zhu, H. L., Challa, G. S., Bi, C. L., Trick, H. N., & Li, W. L. (2015). W3 Is a New Wax Locus That Is Essential for Biosynthesis of beta-Diketone, Development of Glaucousness, and Reduction of Cuticle Permeability in Common Wheat. Plos One, 10(10), 21. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140524
dc.descriptionThe cuticle plays important roles in plant development, growth and defense against biotic and abiotic attacks. Crystallized epicuticular wax, the outermost layer of cuticle, is visible as white-bluish glaucousness. In crops like barley and wheat, glaucousness is trait of adaption to the dry and hot cultivation conditions, and hentriacontane-14,16-dione (beta-diketone) and its hydroxy derivatives are the major and unique components of cuticular wax in the upper parts of adult plants. But their biosynthetic pathway and physiological role largely remain unknown. In the present research, we identified a novel wax mutant in wheat cultivar Bobwhite. The mutation is not allelic to the known wax production gene loci W1 and W2, and designated as W3 accordingly. Genetic analysis localized W3 on chromosome arm 2BS. The w3 mutation reduced 99% of beta-diketones, which account for 63.3% of the total wax load of the wild-type. W3 is necessary for beta-diketone synthesis, but has a different effect on beta-diketone hydroxylation because the hydroxy-beta-diketones to beta-diketone ratio increased 11-fold in the w3 mutant. Loss of beta-diketones caused failure to form glaucousness and significant increase of cuticle permeability in terms of water loss and chlorophyll efflux in the w3 mutant. Transcription of 23 cuticle genes from five functional groups was altered in the w3 mutant, 19 down-regulated and four up-regulated, suggesting a possibility that W3 encodes a transcription regulator coordinating expression of cuticle genes. Biosynthesis of beta-diketones in wheat and their implications in glaucousness formation and drought and heat tolerance were discussed.
dc.descriptionCitation: Zhang, Z., . . . & Wanlong, Li. (2015). W3 Is a New Wax Locus That Is Essential for Biosynthesis of β-Diketone, Development of Glaucousness, and Reduction of Cuticle Permeability in Common Wheat. PLoS One, 10(10), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140524
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2097/32463
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140524
dc.rights: © 2015 Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectCuticular Waxes
dc.subjectHexaploid Wheat
dc.subjectAlkane Biosynthesis
dc.subjectEpicuticular
dc.subjectWaxes
dc.subjectPisum-Sativum
dc.titleW3 Is a New Wax Locus That Is Essential for Biosynthesis of beta-Diketone, Development of Glaucousness, and Reduction of Cuticle Permeability in Common Wheat
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