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First published online July 18, 2002; 10.1105/tpc.001941 American Society of Plant Biologists Ectopic Expression of BABY BOOM Triggers a Conversion from Vegetative to Embryonic Growth
a Plant Research International, Wageningen, The Netherlands 1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail k.a.boutilier{at}plant.wag-ur.nl; fax 31-317-42-31-10
The molecular mechanisms underlying the initiation and maintenance of the embryonic pathway in plants are largely unknown. To obtain more insight into these processes, we used subtractive hybridization to identify genes that are upregulated during the in vitro induction of embryo development from immature pollen grains of Brassica napus (microspore embryogenesis). One of the genes identified, BABY BOOM (BBM), shows similarity to the AP2/ERF family of transcription factors and is expressed preferentially in developing embryos and seeds. Ectopic expression of BBM in Arabidopsis and Brassica led to the spontaneous formation of somatic embryos and cotyledon-like structures on seedlings. Ectopic BBM expression induced additional pleiotropic phenotypes, including neoplastic growth, hormone-free regeneration of explants, and alterations in leaf and flower morphology. The expression pattern of BBM in developing seeds combined with the BBM overexpression phenotype suggests a role for this gene in promoting cell proliferation and morphogenesis during embryogenesis.
Embryogenesis is the starting point of the life cycle for both plants and animals. In plants, embryogenesis is not strictly dependent on fertilization, because many species naturally produce asexually derived embryos in the seed (apomixis) or can be induced to form embryos in tissue culture. Apomictic development is characterized by the avoidance of both meiosis and egg cell fertilization to produce an embryo that is genetically identical to the maternal parent (Asker and Jerling, 1992  ). Apomictic embryos may develop directly from the somatic tissue of the surrounding ovule, from parthenogenesis of the egg cell of a somatic embryo sac, or from parthenogenesis of an unreduced female gametophyte (Koltunow, 1993). Asexually derived embryos also can be induced to form in vitro from a wide range of somatic and gametophytic donor tissues (Mordhorst et al., 1997). In most cases, the addition of plant hormones or growth regulators, or the application of a stress treatment, is necessary for embryo induction. The combination of donor tissue and induction treatment determines whether the embryos develop directly from single cells or indirectly through an intermediary callus phase.
Although the initiation of zygotic, apomictic, and in vitro embryogenesis are activated by different signals and often begin from different starting tissues, it is not unreasonable to assume that all three processes converge at a very early stage on the same signaling pathway. For example, allelic variations in the genes that control the initiation of zygotic embryo development may confer differences in the temporal and/or spatial expression patterns of genes involved in parthenogenesis in apomictic species (Petrov, 1970
Attempts to identify these early embryo control genes have been largely disappointing; the majority of identified genes appear to control basic developmental processes, such as the establishment of meristems, polarity, and tissue patterning, that function throughout the life cycle of the plant (reviewed in Kaplan and Cooke, 1997
lec1 and lec2 mutant embryos exhibit morphological characteristics that are normally expressed postembryonically, that fail to accumulate seed-specific storage products, and that, unlike wild-type seeds at maturity, are partially (lec2) or fully (lec1) desiccation intolerant. Both of these LEC genes encode seed-expressed transcription factors: LEC1 encodes a HAP3 subunit of a CBF protein (Lotan et al., 1998
The conversion of postgerminative plant organs into embryo-like structures is also induced by loss-of-function mutations in another Arabidopsis gene, PICKLE (PKL). The roots of pkl seedlings express embryonic characteristics and form somatic embryos when excised and placed on minimal tissue culture medium (Ogas et al., 1997 A non-mutant-based approach to gain insight into the molecular events associated with the initiation of the embryonic phase of plant development involves the identification of genes that are differentially expressed during the early stages of embryo development. This is a particularly useful method for species in which mutagenesis approaches are not feasible. Unfortunately, the small size of most zygotic embryos, combined with their inaccessibility within the seed coat, makes it technically challenging to isolate sufficient material for the identification of early embryo–expressed genes.
An alternative approach is to use in vitro embryo cultures to generate large numbers of embryos at developmental stages that would normally be inaccessible in seeds. In vitro embryo cultures derived from both somatic and gametophytic tissues have been used successfully as tools to identify genes expressed during early embryo development (Wilde et al., 1988
We are using Brassica napus microspore embryo cultures as a model system to identify gene expression programs that are associated with the initiation of embryo development in plants. This Brassica microspore embryo culture system is based on the ability of the vegetative cell of an immature pollen grain to develop into an embryo in vitro (Keller et al., 1987 Here, we describe a screening approach to identify genes that are differentially expressed during the switch from pollen- to microspore-derived embryo development. One of the genes we identified, BABY BOOM (BBM), encodes an AP2 domain transcription factor and is preferentially expressed in developing embryos and seeds. Our functional analyses show that BBM activates signal transduction pathways leading to the induction of embryo development from differentiated somatic cells. Therefore, BBM is likely to be a key regulator of embryo development in plants.
Isolation of Early Embryo-Expressed Genes We used a subtractive hybridization approach to isolate genes expressed during the period spanning approximately the 8- to 32-cell stage of microspore-derived embryo development (preglobular). To reduce the chance of cloning genes induced specifically by the heat-stress treatment, we used RNA from microspores cultured at 25°C for 24 h followed by culture at 32.5°C for 72 h (Pechan et al., 1991 ; Boutilier et al., 1994) in the construction of a subtracted probe. Although these microspores have been heat stressed, they do not form embryos upon transfer to 25°C, nor do they continue dividing to form mature pollen grains. We identified six clones corresponding to five independent cDNAs that were consistently differentially expressed between embryogenic and nonembryogenic microspore cultures. Here, we present the characterization of one of these genes, BBM.
BBM Shows Similarity to the AP2/ERF Family of Transcription Factors
Search of the sequence databases indicated that the BBM translation products show similarity to the AP2/ERF family of proteins. These proteins are a plant-specific class of putative transcription factors that have been shown to regulate a wide range of developmental processes (reviewed in Riechmann and Meyerowitz, 1998
AP2/ERF proteins have been subdivided into two distinct subfamilies based on whether they contain one (ERF subfamily) or two (AP2 subfamily) DNA binding domains (Zhou et al., 1997
The AP2 domains and linker regions of the sequences encoded by ANT, ZMMHCF1, and a number of recently identified hypothetical proteins show the highest similarity to the BBM proteins. A 10–amino acid insertion in the first AP2 DNA binding domain further distinguishes this related subgroup of proteins from two other AP2 domain–containing proteins, AP2 and Gl15 (Elliot et al., 1996 ). The BBM proteins do not show large stretches of sequence similarity with other AP2/ERF proteins outside of the AP2 DNA binding domain region.
BBM Genes Are Expressed Preferentially in Developing Seeds
BBM mRNAs are difficult to detect on gel blots containing total Brassica seed RNA; therefore, we used nonquantitative RT-PCR and hybridization to monitor BBM mRNA accumulation during seed development in this species (Figure 2B). The temporal pattern of BBM mRNA accumulation during seed development reflects the pattern observed in microspore-derived embryos: BBM mRNA was detected at the earliest time point analyzed, corresponding to the globular stage of embryo development, and continued to be expressed until late in seed development. RT-PCR analysis and gel blot hybridization of RNA from nonseed tissues revealed a barely detectable level of BBM expression in most tissues analyzed (data not shown). mRNA in situ hybridization was used to determine the spatial distribution of BBM mRNAs during Brassica microspore-derived embryo and Arabidopsis seed development. As shown in Figure 3 , BBM expression was detected throughout the developing microspore and zygotic embryo at both early and late stages of development. In seeds, BBM expression also was observed in the free nuclear endosperm, but it decreased dramatically once endosperm cellularization began. Together, these results suggest that the BBM genes are expressed preferentially during embryo and seed development.
BBM Overexpression Indu ces Embryo Formation The identification of the BBM proteins as putative transcription factors, combined with their preferential accumulation throughout embryo development, suggested that these proteins play a central role in regulating embryo-specific pathways. We investigated the effect of ectopically overexpressing BBM genes in Arabidopsis and Brassica by placing them under the control of two semiconstitutive promoters. As shown in Figure 4 , Arabidopsis and Brassica plants transformed with the 35S::BBM and UBI::BBM constructs spontaneously formed somatic embryos and/or cotyledon-like structures on postgermination organs. In Arabidopsis, somatic embryos developed from the margin of the blade of the cotyledon or leaf (Figures 4A and 4B), from the cotyledon or leaf petiole (Figure 4C), and from the shoot apex (Figure 4D). Similar phenotypes were observed in Brassica (Figure 4E), except that somatic embryos also formed on the hypocotyls of germinated seedlings (data not shown).
In both Arabidopsis and Brassica, primary somatic embryos were attached to the underlying tissue at their lateral sides (Figure 4H), at their root poles (Figure 4G), or by their cotyledons (Figure 4C). In both species, somatic embryos were formed as individual embryos or as clustered structures that also formed secondary somatic embryos or cotyledon-like structures on their surface. The formation of somatic embryos on the leaf margins generally was restricted to the first two leaves of the plant, although in one transgenic Brassica line, somatic embryos continued to develop on leaves that arose later in development (Figure 4E). In Arabidopsis, cotyledon-like organs (i.e., embryo-like structures lacking defined shoot and root meristems) developed from the margins of seedling cotyledons and petioles, or from the shoot apex, either randomly or at the position normally occupied by leaves (Figure 4F). Analysis of semithin sections revealed that cells in either the L1 layer alone, or both the L1 and L2 layers of the cotyledons or leaves, contributed to the formation of the somatic embryos (Figures 4G and 4H). Semithin sections of 35S::BBM Arabidopsis plants also revealed that individual BBM-derived somatic embryos are similar in organization to zygotic embryos. They generally are bipolar, consisting of (multiple) cotyledons, a shoot and root meristem, and an axis that has the typical radial arrangement of three tissue types (Figure 4H). The provascular tissue of these somatic embryos was not attached to the vascular tissues of the underlying cotyledons and leaves. As with zygotic embryos, the BBM-induced somatic embryos and cotyledon-like structures did not develop the characteristic trichomes found on the true leaves of many Arabidopsis ecotypes and Brassica cultivars (Figure 4B). Somatic embryos also expressed seed-specific molecular markers such as the 2S albumin storage protein–encoding genes (data not shown). The postgermination fate of Arabidopsis and Brassica seedlings expressing the 35S::BBM and UBI::BBM constructs is dependent on the severity of the somatic embryo phenotype. UBI::BBM seedlings and the majority of 35S::BBM seedlings develop only a limited number of somatic embryos or cotyledon-like structures and then resume additional postgermination growth (Figure 4A). However, in a number of 35S::BBM lines, overexpression of BBM leads to a reiteration of the embryo-forming process, with the result that new embryos or cotyledons are formed continuously on the cotyledons of preexisting embryos. Seedlings showing strong recurrent embryogenesis are severely compromised with respect to further vegetative development; the roots grow slowly and the root/hypocotyl forms callus (Figure 4I), whereas shoot outgrowth is inhibited as the embryo structures continue to divide and form balls of embryos and cotyledons (Figure 4J). Leaf-like structures and callus eventually arise from the embryo mass, although new somatic embryos are formed quickly on the leaf margins, leading to a reiteration of the process (Figure 4K).
BBM Overexpression Induces Pleiotropic Phenotypes
Transgenic Arabidopsis plants ectopically expressing the 35S::BBM construct exhibited growth alterations at later stages of development, which could be divided into two major phenotypic classes. Plants in class I were dwarf to medium in size and produced rounded leaves (Figure 5D) that occasionally were wrinkled or showed an increase in serration. These plants grew very slowly, produced an excess of rosette leaves, and were slow to flower but were fully fertile. Plants in class II were wild type to medium in size, often had elongated and/or epinastic leaf petioles, and produced leaves that were severely wrinkled or that showed an increase in serration (Figures 5E and 5F). These plants often contained increased levels of anthocyanin or lacked epicuticular wax, exhibited a decrease in the length of the anthers, petals, and sepals relative to the carpels (Figure 5H), and showed decreased male and female fertility. Floral organ abnormalities such as narrow sepals and petals, greenish petals, carpels with elongate protrusions, or a wrinkled appearance at the region of the carpel adjacent to the stigma were observed. Wrinkled leaves, as well as leaves with increased lobing, were also observed in the 35S::BBM Brassica transgenic plants (Figure 4E), although the limited number of transgenic plants (six) did not permit the classification of phenotypic severity. A number of the phenotypes described above suggest that the ectopic expression of BBM stimulates cell proliferation and subsequent differentiation. Therefore, we determined whether ectopic BBM expression was sufficient to enhance in vitro regeneration, a process that also relies on the activation of cell division and differentiation. The effect of BBM gene expression on in vitro regeneration was examined using transgenic Arabidopsis UBI::BBM plants. The weaker penetrance and expressivity of the somatic embryo phenotype in UBI::BBM transgenic plants allowed us to examine the effect of BBM gene expression on regeneration without the added complication of prolific somatic embryo production on the explant material.
Leaf and hypocotyl explants from 10-day-old seedlings of wild-type plants and seven independent transgenic lines were placed on either basal medium or media supplemented with plant growth regulators to stimulate regeneration via organogenesis. In the experiments involving plant growth regulators, explants were first placed for 3 days on callus-inducing medium (high auxin-to-cytokinin ratio) and then transferred to shoot-inducing medium (high cytokinin-to-auxin ratio) as described in Vergunst et al. (1998)
The effect of BBM expression on explants growing on media lacking plant growth regulators was even more pronounced. Wild-type leaf and hypocotyl explants placed on media lacking plant growth regulators routinely produced callus or regenerated roots at the cut end of the explant, although shoot formation was never observed (Figure 6C). In contrast to wild-type explants, UBI::BBM explants regenerated into complete plantlets in the absence of added plant growth regulators (Figure 6D). Organogenesis appeared to be direct, because no callus formation was observed. These results indicate that ectopic expression of BBM stimulates pathways that promote cell division and differentiation. This process is not dependent on the addition of cytokinin and auxin but can be enhanced by the presence of these growth regulators.
BBM Proteins Are Similar to the AP2/ERF Family of Transcription Factors The proteins encoded by the Brassica and Arabidopsis BBM genes show similarity to members of the AP2/ERF family of transcription factors (Riechmann and Meyerowitz, 1998 ). Although exceptions exist (Wilson et al., 1996; van der Graaff et al., 2000; Banno et al., 2001), the function of the AP2/ERF proteins can be defined broadly by the number of AP2/ERF DNA binding domains they contain (Moose and Sisco, 1996). Members of the ERF subfamily, which include CBF, PTI, EREBP, ORCA, ABI4, and DREB, contain a single AP2/ERF domain, and in general, they appear to regulate processes related to abiotic and environmental stress (Ohme-Takagi and Shinshi, 1995; Stockinger et al., 1997; Zhou et al., 1997; Finkelstein et al., 1998; Liu et al., 1998; Menke et al., 1999).
By contrast, proteins of the AP2 subfamily, including AP2, ANT, Gl15, and Ids1, contain two AP2/ERF DNA binding domains and generally can be considered as developmental regulators of cell/organ identity and fate (Jofuku et al., 1994
The AP2/ERF DNA binding domains of the BBM proteins, as well as the linker region connecting these two domains, are most similar to a subgroup of the AP2 domain subfamily that includes the Arabidopsis ANT and maize ZMMHCF1 proteins as well as a number of hypothetical proteins from Arabidopsis. ZMMHCF1 is expressed in maize postpollination endosperm. The protein has been shown to complement an L-isoaspartyl methyltransferase–deficient mutant of Escherichia coli, although the function of the ZMMHCF1 protein during plant development has not been defined (Daniell et al., 1996
Both BBM and ANT, in addition to showing sequence similarity in their DNA binding domains, also appear to promote cell proliferation when overexpressed ectopically. This function is also shared by a third AP2/ERF transcription factor gene, LEAFY PETIOLE (LEP). LEP was identified originally in a T-DNA activation tagging screen for leaf developmental mutants (van der Graaff et al., 2000 The constitutive expression of LEP results in more severe phenotypes, and, similar to BBM overexpression, results in increased and ectopic cell divisions along the cotyledon/leaf margin and the hypocotyl of transgenic seedlings. The similarity in the ANT, BBM, and LEP gain-of-function phenotypes suggests that the pathways activated by these three AP2/ERF proteins may intersect at some point downstream or that these proteins activate/repress an overlapping set of target genes when expressed ectopically. Nonetheless, BBM, ANT, and LEP are clearly distinct proteins with unique functions.
BBM Regulates the Embryonic Phase of Development With respect to the 35S::BBM phenotype, the 35S::LEC1 phenotype is very weak, with only a few plants showing sporadic embryo development, whereas the 35S::LEC2 phenotype is comparable to that observed for 35S::BBM plants. The similarity between the BBM and LEC genes in terms of their putative function as transcription factors, their preferential expression in the seed, and the similarities in their gain-of-function phenotypes make it tempting to speculate that these genes have overlapping functions.
In the absence of a loss-of-function BBM mutant, we used RT-PCR to provide preliminary insight into the relationship between BBM and one of the LEC genes, LEC1. Our results indicate that BBM is expressed in seeds of the lec1-3 mutant (Raz et al., 2001
Role for BBM in Stimulating Cell Proliferation and Morphogenesis Although ectopic BBM expression induces a number of pleiotropic phenotypes, the major phenotype is the spontaneous formation of somatic embryos, suggesting that the wild-type role of this gene is to induce and/or maintain embryo development after fertilization. In this respect, it is interesting that in both UBI::BBM and 35S::BBM overexpression lines, the somatic embryos are derived primarily from cells of the shoot apex or the marginal tissue of seedlings.
Newly formed angiosperm leaves are characterized by a marginal region, or blastozone, consisting of small, densely cytoplasmic cells (Hagemann and Gleissberg, 1996
One clue to the mechanistic action of BBM lies in the observation that neither the induction of somatic embryogenesis, nor the formation of ectopic shoots and callus, nor the ability to stimulate regeneration from explants requires the addition of plant hormones or growth regulators to the medium. In most species, organogenesis in vitro is dependent on the addition of cytokinin or a combination of cytokinin and auxin to the growth medium (Skoog and Miller, 1957
A role for AP2/ERF domain proteins in hormone signaling pathways is not a general characteristic of this protein family; nonetheless, a large number of AP2/ERF domain genes are regulated by plant hormones at the transcriptional level and/or function in hormone signaling pathways (Ohme-Takagi and Shinshi, 1995
Microspore Culture Brassica napus cv Topas DH 4079 was used as the donor plant for microspore embryo cultures. The Brassica plant growth and microspore culture conditions have been described previously (Boutilier et al., 1994 ).
Subtractive Probe Construction and Library Screening
The subtractive hybridization was performed essentially as described in Sambrook et al. (1989)
Plaques hybridizing to the subtracted probe, but not to the nonembryogenic or napin probes, were selected for further analysis. A partial BBM1 cDNA was one of the differentially expressed cDNA clones that was isolated and subsequently characterized. The full-length Brassica BBM1 and BBM2 cDNAs were obtained by stringent screening of a Brassica globular-stage, microspore-derived embryo cDNA library (UniZAPII; Stratagene). The Arabidopsis thaliana BBM ortholog (AtBBM) was isolated by screening an Arabidopsis (ecotype C24) genomic
Nucleic Acid Isolation and Analysis
Brassica BBM cDNAs were amplified by PCR using a gene-specific primer set (5'-ACCTTTTACCAAGAACTCGTTAGATCA-3' and 5'-AAGTAGATGAGTTCATTGAGAGGGACA-3') that spans the first intron of the BBM genomic sequence. BBM RT-PCR products were blotted and hybridized to the gene-specific BBM cDNA fragment. The constitutively expressed cyclophilin CyP gene (Gasser et al., 1990
Microscopy and in Situ Hybridization Samples for mRNA in situ hybridization were fixed as described above, except that microspore embryos were fixed initially for 4 h, embedded in 1% agarose plugs, and fixed for an additional 20 h. Tissue was dehydrated by passage through a graded ethanol series and then infiltrated with Paraplast X-tra (Oxford Labware, Oxford, UK). Twenty-micrometer sections were mounted onto Superfrost/Plus microscope slides (Fisher Scientific) and dewaxed in xylene. Gene-specific fragments corresponding to the region of the Brassica and Arabidopsis BBM sequences lying upstream of the AP2/ERF domain were used as templates for digoxigenin-labeled RNA transcripts (Boehringer Mannheim). The Brassica BBM template is described above. The AtBBM template corresponds to a 202-bp HindIII-SspI fragment of the AtBBM genomic clone.
Prehybridization, hybridization, and high-stringency posthybridization washing steps and detection of digoxigenin-labeled probes were performed essentially as described in Jackson (1991)
Vector Construction and Transformation
The 35S::BBM and UBI::BBM binary vectors were electroporated into Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain C58C1pMP90 and used to transform Arabidopsis ecotypes C24 and Columbia (Clough and Bent, 1998 Upon request, all novel materials described in this article will be made available for academic noncommercial research purposes. No restrictions or conditions will be placed on the use of any materials described in this article that would limit their use for academic noncommercial research purposes.
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We thank Claire Rouvière and Marcel van Blijderveen for help with the in vitro regeneration experiments and the maintenance of transgenic plant lines, Jindrich Novotny for assistance in constructing the globular-stage, microspore-derived embryo cDNA library, Adrie van't Hooft for art work, and Oscar Goddijn for the Arabidopsis genomic DNA library. This work was partially supported by visiting fellowships in a Canadian government laboratory to K.B. and T.O., by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research visiting fellowships to K.B. and V.K.S., by a Rockefeller postdoctoral fellowship to V.K.S., and by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management, and Fisheries (DWK 281-392).
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2 Current address: Aventis CropScience N.V., Gent, Belgium. Received January 28, 2002; accepted April 29, 2002.
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