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Acta Horticulturae Sinica ›› 2021, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (3): 566-576.doi: 10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2020-0483

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Isolation and Function Analysis of the Promoter of a Thermal Inducible Gene RCA1 in Rhododendron hainanense

LI Zheng, LIU Bing, ZHOU Hong, WANG Xiuyun(), XIA Yiping()   

  1. Genomics and Genetic Engineering Laboratory of Ornamental Plants,College of Agriculture and Biotechnology,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou 310058,China
  • Received:2020-09-04 Online:2021-03-25 Published:2021-04-02
  • Contact: WANG Xiuyun,XIA Yiping E-mail:wxy.550@163.com;ypxia@zju.edu.cn

Abstract:

In order to analysis the regulatory mechanism and expression profile of RhRCA1,three-year-old cutting seedlings of Rhododendron hainanense were used as the experimental material to isolate the promoter ofRhRCA1. This promoter was then used to drive the Luciferase and GUS reporters in tobacco and Arabidopsis thaliana respectively,to figure out its activity,tissue specificity and thermal inducibility. The results showed that:(1) Remarkable high expression of RhRCA1 was observed in the quantitative experiment after high temperature treatment,which appeared typical thermal inducibility. (2) The promoter of RhRCA1 with a length of 1 624 bp was cloned and the promoter contained multiple cis-elements related to abiotic stress response,light signals and tissue specificity. (3) A plant expression vector was constructed using theRhRCA1 promoter to drive Luciferase report gene,and was transformed into tabacco to analyse transient expression. The results showed that RhRCA1promoter could strongly respond to heat stress. (4) The promoter and GUSfusion expression vector were constructed and transformed intoArabidopsis. Analysis of T3 generation transgenic Arabidopsis tissues with histochemical staining showed that heat stress had a significant impact on the induction of RhRCA1 promoter expression in green tissues,including cotyledon,mature leaf,young stem,sepal and seedpods. These results indicated that the promoter ofRhRCA1is a heat-inducible and tissue-specific promoter. This promoter is ideal to drive other genes to improve the thermostability of plants under high temperature by genetic engineering,which has promising applications under the tendency of global warming.

Key words: Rhododendron hainanense, Rubisco activase, promoter, thermal inducibility, function analysis

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