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The repositorium is a searchable database that provides data on relevant articles from journals, company web pages and web pages of governmental agencies about studies/applications of genome-editing in model plants and agricultural crops in the period January 1996 to May 2018. Search options are article type, technique, plant, traits or free text. The repositorium is based on the systematic map of Dominik Modrzejewski et al., published in the journal environmental evidence. (Download article PDF).

Rj4, a Gene Controlling Nodulation Specificity in Soybeans, Encodes a Thaumatin-Like Protein But Not the One Previously Reported


Typ / Jahr

Journal Article / 2016

Autoren

Tang, Fang; Yang, Shengming; Liu, Jinge; Zhu, Hongyan

Abstract

Rj4 is a dominant gene in soybeans (Glycine max) that restricts nodulation by many strains of Bradyrhizobium elkanii. The soybean-B. elkanii symbiosis has a low nitrogen-fixation efficiency, but B. elkanii strains are highly competitive for nodulation; thus, cultivars harboring an Rj4 allele are considered favorable. Cloning the Rj4 gene is the first step in understanding the molecular basis of Rj4-mediated nodulation restriction and facilitates the development of molecular tools for genetic improvement of nitrogen fixation in soybeans. We finely mapped the Rj4 locus within a small genomic region on soybean chromosome 1, and validated one of the candidate genes as Rj4 using both complementation tests and CRISPR/Cas9-based gene knockout experiments. We demonstrated that Rj4 encodes a thaumatin-like protein, for which a corresponding allele is not present in the surveyed rj4 genotypes, including the reference genome Williams 82. Our conclusion disagrees with the previous report that Rj4 is the Glyma.01G165800 gene (previously annotated as Glyma01g37060). Instead, we provide convincing evidence that Rj4 is Glyma.01g165800-D, a duplicated and unique version of Glyma.01g165800, that has evolved the ability to control symbiotic specificity.

Keywords
Amino Acid Sequence; Bradyrhizobium/physiology; Chromosome Mapping; CRISPR-Cas Systems; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; Genetic Complementation Test; Molecular Sequence Data; Plant Proteins/genetics/metabolism; Plant Root Nodulation/genetics/physiology; Plant Roots/genetics/microbiology; Plants, Genetically Modified; Polymorphism, Genetic; Soybeans/genetics/microbiology
Periodical
Plant physiology
Periodical Number
1
Page range
26–32
Volume
170
DOI
10.1104/pp.15.01661

Techniques

ID Corresponding Author
Country
Plant Species GE Technique
Sequence Identifier
Trait
Type of Alteration
Progress in Research
Key Topic
482 Zhu, Hongyan
USA
Glycine Max CRISPR/Cas9
Glyma.01G165800
No information
SDN1
Basic research
Basic research