A natural allele of OsMS1 responds to temperature changes and confers thermosensitive genic male sterility

Lunying Wu, Xiaohui Jing, Baolan Zhang, Shoujun Chen, Ran Xu, Penggen Duan, Danni Zou, Shengjian Huang, Tingbo Zhou, Chengcai An (), Yuehua Luo () and Yunhai Li ()
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Lunying Wu: College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University
Xiaohui Jing: Peking University
Baolan Zhang: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shoujun Chen: Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center
Ran Xu: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Penggen Duan: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Danni Zou: College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University
Shengjian Huang: College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University
Tingbo Zhou: College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University
Chengcai An: Peking University
Yuehua Luo: College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University
Yunhai Li: Chinese Academy of Sciences

Nature Communications, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: Abstract Changes in ambient temperature influence crop fertility and production. Understanding of how crops sense and respond to temperature is thus crucial for sustainable agriculture. The thermosensitive genic male-sterile (TGMS) lines are widely used for hybrid rice breeding and also provide a good system to investigate the mechanisms underlying temperature sensing and responses in crops. Here, we show that OsMS1 is a histone binding protein, and its natural allele OsMS1wenmin1 confers thermosensitive male sterility in rice. OsMS1 is primarily localized in nuclei, while OsMS1wenmin1 is localized in nuclei and cytoplasm. Temperature regulates the abundances of OsMS1 and OsMS1wenmin1 proteins. The high temperature causes more reduction of OsMS1wenmin1 than OsMS1 in nuclei. OsMS1 associates with the transcription factor TDR to regulate expression of downstream genes in a temperature-dependent manner. Thus, our findings uncover a thermosensitive mechanism that could be useful for hybrid crop breeding.

Date: 2022
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