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Phytochrome D Acts in the Shade-Avoidance Syndrome in Arabidopsis
by Controlling Elongation Growth and
Flowering Time1
Paul F. Devlin2,
Paul R.H. Robson3,
Samita
R. Patel,
Lynn Goosey,
Robert A. Sharrock, and
Garry C. Whitelam*
Department of Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH
United Kingdom (P.F.D., P.R.H.R., S.R.P., G.C.W.); and Department of
Plant Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717 (L.G.,
R.A.S.)
Shade
avoidance in higher plants is regulated by the action of multiple
phytochrome (phy) species that detect changes in the red/far-red ratio
(R/FR) of incident light and initiate a redirection of growth and an
acceleration of flowering. The phyB mutant of Arabidopsis is constitutively elongated and early flowering and displays attenuated responses to both reduced R/FR and end-of-day far-red light, conditions that induce strong shade-avoidance reactions in wild-type plants. This indicates that phyB plays an important role
in the control of shade avoidance. In Arabidopsis phyB and phyD are the
products of a recently duplicated gene and share approximately 80%
identity. We investigated the role played by phyD in shade avoidance by
analyzing the responses of phyD-deficient mutants. Compared with the
monogenic phyB mutant, the phyB-phyD double mutant flowers early and has a smaller leaf area, phenotypes that are characteristic of shade avoidance. Furthermore, compared with
the monogenic phyB mutant, the phyB-phyD
double mutant shows a more attenuated response to a reduced R/FR for
these responses. Compared with the phyA-phyB double
mutant, the phyA-phyB-phyD triple mutant has elongated
petioles and displays an enhanced elongation of internodes in response
to end-of-day far-red light. These characteristics indicate that phyD
acts in the shade-avoidance syndrome by controlling flowering time and
leaf area and that phyC and/or phyE also play a role.
1
This work was supported by the Biotechnology and
Biological Sciences Research Council (UK) (grant no. P02304 to P.F.D)
and by the National Science Foundation (grant nos. IBN94-07864 and IBN98-0881 to R.A.S.).
2
Present address: Department of Cell Biology, The
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
3
Present address: Department of Cell Biology,
Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Plas Gogerddan,
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3EB UK.
*
Corresponding author; e-mail gcwl{at}le.ac.uk; fax
44-116-2522791.
Plant Physiol. (1999) 119: 909-916
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© 1999 American Society of Plant Physiologists
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