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Plant Cell, Vol. 10, 1511-1522, September 1998, Copyright © 1998, American Society of Plant Physiologists
A Recessive Heterochronic Mutation, plastochron1, Shortens the Plastochron and Elongates the Vegetative Phase in Rice
Jun-Ichi Itoha,
Atsushi Hasegawab,
Hidemi Kitanob, and
Yasuo Nagatoa
a Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
b Department of Biology, Aichi University of Education, Kariya 448, Japan
Correspondence to:
Yasuo Nagato, anagato{at}hongo.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (E-mail), 81-3-3815-5851 (fax).
We describe two recessive alleles of a rice heterochronic gene, plastochron1-1 (pla1-1) and pla1-2, that reduce the length of the plastochron to approximately half that of the wild type. Because the onset of the reproductive phase in pla1 was not temporally affected, the number of leaves produced in the vegetative phase was nearly twice that produced in the wild type. Panicle development was severely disturbed in pla1 mutants. In pla1-1, many primordia of primary rachis branches were converted into vegetative shoots. These ectopic shoots repeated the initiation of panicle development and the conversion of primary rachis branches into shoots. In the weak allele pla1-2, however, only the basal one or two primordia developed as vegetative shoots, and the remaining primordia developed to produce a truncated panicle. These results indicate that both vegetative and reproductive programs are expressed simultaneously during the reproductive phase of pla1; however, the degree varied depending on the strength of the allele. Accordingly, pla1 is a heterochronic mutation that extends the vegetative period. The shoot apical meristem of pla1 was larger than that of the wild type, although the shape was not modified. An in situ hybridization experiment using the histone H4 gene as a probe revealed that cell divisions are accelerated in the pla1 meristem. The PLA1 gene is considered to regulate the duration of the vegetative phase by controlling the rate of leaf production in the meristem.
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