Suppression of starch synthesis in rice stems splays tiller angle due to gravitropic insensitivity but does not affect yield
Masaki Okamura A , Tatsuro Hirose A B , Yoichi Hashida A , Ryu Ohsugi A and Naohiro Aoki A C
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A Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan.
B NARO Agricultural Research Center, Joetsu, Niigata 943-0193, Japan.
C Corresponding author. Email: aaokin@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Functional Plant Biology 42(1) 31-41 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP14159
Submitted: 12 June 2014 Accepted: 11 July 2014 Published: 17 September 2014
Abstract
In rice (Oryza sativa L.), tiller angle – defined as the angle between the main culm and its side tillers – is one of the important factors involved in light use efficiency. To clarify the relationship between tiller angle, gravitropism and stem-starch accumulation, we investigated the shoot gravitropic response of a low stem-starch rice mutant which lacks a large subunit of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP), called OsAGPL1 and exhibits relatively spread tiller angle. The insensitive gravitropic response exhibited by the mutant led us to the conclusion that insensitivity of gravitropism caused by stem-starch reduction splayed the tiller angle. Furthermore, since another AGP gene called OsAGPL3 was expressed at considerable levels in graviresponding sites, we generated a double mutant lacking both OsAGPL1 and OsAGPL3. The double mutant exhibited still lower stem-starch content, less sensitive gravitropic response and greater tiller angle spread than the single mutants. This indicated that the expansion of the tiller angle caused by the reduction in starch level was intense according to the extent of the reduction. We found there were no significant differences between the double mutant and wild-type plants in terms of dry matter production. These results provided new insight into the importance of stem-starch accumulation and ideal plant architecture.
Additional keywords: gravitropism, leaf sheath pulivinus, non-structural carbohydrate, plant architecture, stem starch.
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