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To study the expression and regulation of a rice glycine-rich cell wall protein gene, Osgrpl, transgenic rice plants were regenerated that contain the Osgrpl promoter or its 5′ deletions fused with the bacterial β-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene. We report here a detailed histochemical analysis of the Osgrpl-Gus expression patterns in transgenic rice plants. In roots of transgenic rice plants, GUS expression was specifically located in cell elongation and differentiation regions, and no GUS expression was detectable in the apical meristem and the mature region. In shoots, GUS activity was expressed only in young leaves or in the growing basal parts of developing leaves, and little GUS activity was expressed in mature leaves or mature parts of developing leaves. In shoot apices, GUS activity was detected only in those leaf cells which were starting to expand and differentiate, and GUS expression was not detected in the apical meristem and the young meristematic leaf primordia. GUS activity was highly expressed in the young stem tissue, particularly in the developing vascular bundles and epidermis. Thus, the expression of the Osgrpl gene is closely associated with cell elongation/expansion during the post-mitotic cell differentiation process. The Osgrpl-Gus gene was also expressed in response to wounding and down-regulated by water-stress conditions in the elongation region of roots. Promoter deletion analysis indicates that both positive and negative mechanisms are involved in regulating the specific expression patterns. We propose a simple model for the developmental regulation of the Osgrpl gene expression.
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Xu, D., Lei, M. & Wu, R. Expression of the rice Osgrp1 promoter-Gus reporter gene is specifically associated with cell elongation/expansion and differentiation. Plant Mol Biol 28, 455–471 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00020394
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