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| Author(s): |
Rogério Falleiros Carvalho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2008-01-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Lazaro Eustaquio Pereira Peres;
Gilberto Barbante Kerbauy;
Vera Maria Quecini;
Massanori Takaki;
Lilian Beatriz Penteado Zaidan
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| Advisor: | Lazaro Eustaquio Pereira Peres |
| Abstract | |
Many responses regulated by light during plant development are also regulated by plant hormones, suggesting an interaction between these factors. One important approach to test this hypothesis is the use of photomorphogenic and hormonal mutants and double mutant analysis. Mutants with altered photoreceptor biosynthesis, light signal transduction, hormonal metabolism and hormonal sensitivity are available in tomato. However, since they are in different cultivars, this can be a limitation for their use in a comprehensive study, as well as, for the construction of double mutants. In this work we performed the introgression of nineteen mutations in a single cultivar of tomato, Micro- Tom (cv. MT). These mutations affect biosynthesis or response to phytochrome (phy), auxin (AUX), cytokinin (CK), gibberellin (GA), abscisic acid (ABA), ethylene (ET) and brassinosteroid (BR). Using this collection of hormone mutants, we studied two responses which are controlled by light and hormones: elongation and anthocyanin accumulation in hypocotyls. For this purpose, we used three approaches: i) hormonal treatment in the photomorphogenic mutants, ii) measurement of hypocotyl lengths from hormonal mutants grown under light and dark conditions and iii) double mutant (photomorphogenic-hormonal) analysis. Anthocyanin accumulation was promoted by CK and ABA and inhibited by GA. This is in accordance with the reduction of anthocyanin accumulation in the ABA deficient mutant (not) and in the GA hypersensitive mutant (pro). Although the diageotropica (dgt), auxin-insensitive mutant, showed a high anthocyanin accumulation, the addition of auxin did not supported a role for this hormone in anthocyanin accumulation. On the other hand, this could be due to a low auxin-tocytokinin ratio presented by dgt. Data from mutants with altered metabolism and sensitivity of ethylene, epinastic (epi) and Never ripe (Nr) respectively, and from plants treated with this hormone suggest a limited role of ethylene in the anthocyanin biosynthesis. Exogenous AUX, CK, ABA and ET inhibited the hypocotyl elongation. This is coherent with the promotion of hypocotyl elongation in dgt and sit mutants under light conditions and inhibition of hypocotyl elongation in the epi mutant in the light and dark. On the other hand, GA promoted the hypocotyl elongation corroborating the same effect seen in pro. The brt mutant showed a reduced hypocotyl elongation in light and dark conditions, which contradicts the effect of exogenous cytokinin. The phytochromedeficient aurea (au) mutant was the only one to show an enhanced hypocotyl elongation in the dark compared to the wild type (MT). The combination between photomorphogenic and hormonal mutants (double mutants) showed additive (au epi, au Nr, au dgt e au sit), synergistic (au pro) and epistatic (au brt) interactions considering the anthocyanin accumulation and hypocotyl elongation. Synergistic interaction was observed in the elongation hypocotyl of the au dgt and au sit double mutants. These results indicate that phy and CK may share some signaling/metabolic pathways in the control of anthocyanin accumulation and hypocotyl elongation. On the other hand, our data do not support an interaction between phy and the hormones AUX, ET, ABA and GA in the control of hypocotyls elongation or anthocyanin accumulation. (AU) | |