The harvest-responsive region of the Asparagus officinalis sparagine synthetase promoter reveals complexity in the regulation of the harvest response

Functional Plant Biology : FPB
Donald A Hunter, Lyn M Watson

Abstract

The activity of a 1915-bp asparagine synthetase (AS) promoter of Asparagus officinalis L. was induced in mature leaves of transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. plants when the leaves were detached and held in water for 24 h. To understand this induction by harvest, variants of the AS promoter were linked to the β-glucuronidase GUS reporter gene. Harvest induction in the leaves required detachment and was not simply a wound response. Two regions in the AS promoter (Region A, -640 to -523; Region B, -524 to -383) were independently able to confer harvest response to the otherwise unresponsive -383AS (minimal) promoter. Region A was studied in further detail. Various truncations, deletions, or nucleotide substitutions of Region A affected activity and fold induction of the minimal promoter. However, no harvest-inducible cis-acting element within Region A was identified. Although the minimal promoter contained a dehydration-responsive element and ACGT elements similar to ABA-responsive regulatory motifs these were not needed by the upstream regulatory regions for directing harvest response. When four copies of Region A were linked to the minimal promoter it became highly active in leaves before harvest. Deletions within Regio...Continue Reading

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