Expression of an Arabidopsis cryptochrome gene in transgenic tobacco results in hypersensitivity to blue, UV-A, and green light.

AUTOR(ES)

Lin, C

RESUMO

The Arabidopsis HY4 gene, required for blue-light-induced inhibition of hypocotyl elongation, encodes a 75-kDa flavoprotein (CRY1) with characteristics of a blue-light photoreceptor. To investigate the mechanism by which this photoreceptor mediates blue-light responses in vivo, we have expressed the Arabidopsis HY4 gene in transgenic tobacco. The transgenic plants exhibited a short-hypocotyl phenotype under blue, UV-A, and green light, whereas they showed no difference from the wild-type plant under red/far-red light or in the dark. This phenotype was found to cosegregate with overexpression of the HY4 transgene and to be fluence dependent. We concluded that the short-hypocotyl phenotype of transgenic tobacco plants was due to hypersensitivity to blue, UV-A, and green light, resulting from over-expression of the photoreceptor. These observations are consistent with the broad action spectrum for responses mediated by this cryptochrome in Arabidopsis and indicate that the machinery for signal, transduction required by the CRY1 protein is conserved among different plant species. Furthermore, the level of these photoresponses is seen to be determined by the cellular concentration of this photoreceptor.

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