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Biochemical and molecular analysis of a temperature-sensitive albino mutant in kale named “White Dove”

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“White Dove” is a mutant in kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala f. tricolor), which exhibits a mutant albino phenotype in the interior of the plant under low temperature conditions. Chlorophyll content in “White Dove” was dramatically reduced under low temperature conditions, while the content in “Green Dove” decreased slightly under the same conditions. The levels of five chlorophyll precursors suggested that chlorophyll biosynthesis in white kale was inhibited by low temperature stress at the step of Pchlide. However, Mg-Proto IX was not inhibited in white kale grown under low temperature conditions. The results of quantitative RT-PCR illustrated that the chlorophyll biosynthetic genes in the white cultivar were dramatically down-regulated by low temperature stress from the step of POR, while CISC and DBB1B in the white cultivar were dramatically induced under low temperature conditions. The results of transmission electron microscopy analysis showed that there were normal chloroplasts in the young leaves of white kale grown at 20 °C, whereas proplastids were observed in white kale grown at 5 °C. These results strongly suggested that low-temperature stress significantly inhibited plastid development in the young leaves of white kale, and repressed chlorophyll biosynthesis at the step of Pchlide by down-regulating the expression of downstream chlorophyll biosynthetic genes, resulting in undifferentiated proplastids and the albino phenotype observed in young leaves. Several genes associated with chlorophyll accumulation were also affected by low temperature conditions in white kale, especially CISC and DBB1B.

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This work was supported by the Doctoral Program Foundation of Institutions of Higher Education of China (20100191110031), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31101546), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. CDJXS11232244).

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    Shuang Zhou, Zongli Hu, Mingku Zhu, Bin Zhang, Lei Deng, Yu Pan & Guoping Chen

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Zhou, S., Hu, Z., Zhu, M. et al. Biochemical and molecular analysis of a temperature-sensitive albino mutant in kale named “White Dove”. Plant Growth Regul 71, 281–294 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10725-013-9829-0

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