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Received May 13, 2005
Returned for revision June 15, 2005
Accepted June 21, 2005

Phytochrome Control of the Arabidopsis Transcriptome Anticipates Seedling Exposure to Light

María Agustina Mazzella 1, María Verónica Arana 2, Roberto J. Staneloni 3, Susana Perelman 2, María J. Rodriguez Batiller 3, Jorge Muschietti 1, Pablo D. Cerdán 4, Kunhua Chen 4, Rodolfo A. Sánchez 2, Tong Zhu 5, Joanne Chory 4, and Jorge J. Casal 2*

1 Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingenieria Genetica y Biologia Molecular, 1428-Buenos Aires, Argentina
2 IFEVA (Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura), Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, 1417-Buenos Aires, Argentina
3 Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas Fundación Leloir, 1405-Buenos Aires, Argentina
4 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Plant Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037
5 Syngenta Biotechnology, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: casal{at}ifeva.edu.ar.

Phytochromes mediate a profound developmental shift when dark-grown seedlings are exposed to light. Here, we show that a subset of genes is upregulated in phytochrome B (phyB) mutants even before dark-grown Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings are exposed to light. Most of these genes bear the RY cis motif, which is a binding site of the transcription factor ABSCISIC ACID INSENSITIVE3 (ABI3), and the phyB mutation also enhances ABI3 expression. These changes in transcriptome have physiological consequences, because seedlings of the abi3 mutant showed enhanced responses to pulses of far-red light, whereas ABI3 overexpressers exhibited the opposite pattern. Seedlings of the wild type derived from seeds germinated in full darkness showed enhanced expression of genes bearing the RY cis motif and reduced responses to far-red light. We propose that, via changes in ABI3 expression, light, perceived mainly by phyB in the seed, generates a downstream transdevelopmental phase signal that preconditions the seedling to its most likely environment.




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