- Title
- Mitochondrial small heat shock protein mediates seed germination via thermal sensing
- Creator
- Ma, Wei; Guan, Xueying; Chen, Xiaoya; Zhang, Tianzhen; Li, Jie; Pan, Ronghui; Wang, Luyao; Liu, Fengjun; Ma, Hongyu; Zhu, Shuijin; Hu, Jin; Ruan, Yong-Ling
- Relation
- ARC.DP180103834 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP180103834
- Relation
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 116, Issue 10, p. 4716-4721
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1815790116
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Significance: The propagation of most flowering plant species is determined by the success of seed germination, which is of both economic and ecologic importance. Mitochondria are the energy resource and crucial organelles for plant seed germination. Studying the underlying mechanism is important for us to understand the basic principles of plant development and improve crop yields. Here we identify HSP24.7 as a central activator for temperature-dependent seed germination. HSP24.7 modulates cytochrome C/C1 production in the mitochondrial electron transport chain and induces the generation of reactive oxygen species, which accelerates seed germination. Our work provides a comprehensive framework of how mitochondria regulate seed germination in response to the dynamics of environmental temperature. Abstract: Seed germination is an energy demanding process that requires functional mitochondria upon imbibition. However, how mitochondria fine tune seed germination, especially in response to the dynamics of environmental temperature, remains largely unknown at the molecular level. Here, we report a mitochondrial matrix-localized heat shock protein GhHSP24.7, that regulates seed germination in a temperature-dependent manner. Suppression of GhHSP24.7 renders the seed insensitive to temperature changes and delays germination. We show that GhHSP24.7 competes with GhCCMH to bind to the maturation subunit protein GhCcmFc to form cytochrome C/C1 (CytC/C1) in the mitochondrial electron transport chain. GhHSP24.7 modulates CytC/C1 production to induce reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, which consequently accelerates endosperm rupture and promotes seed germination. Overexpression of GhHSP24.7’s homologous genes can accelerate seed germination in Arabidopsis and tomato, indicating its conserved function across plant species. Therefore, HSP24.7 is a critical factor that positively controls seed germination via temperature-dependent ROS generation.
- Subject
- seed germination; mitochondria; ROS; temperature; HSP
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1467635
- Identifier
- uon:47862
- Identifier
- ISSN:0027-8424
- Language
- eng
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