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The wheat TaGI1, involved in photoperiodic flowering, encodesan Arabidopsis GI ortholog

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Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is an important crop and requires long day and short night to flower. To study the molecular mechanism of photoperiodic regulation of flowering in this species, we isolated a wheat TaGI1 gene, an ortholog of GIGANTEA (GI) in Arabidopsis. RNA blot hybridization revealed that TaGI1 is expressed in leaves in a rhythmic manner under long day and short day conditions and its rhythmic expression is regulated by photoperiods and circadian clocks. Further study demonstrated that the TaGI1 rhythmic expression in the leaves of seedlings is initiated by photoperiods, implying that TaGI1 does not show circadian regulation until after being entrained in a light/dark cycle. Interestingly, TaGI1 mRNA was detected in adaxial epidermal cells right above the vascular bundles of leaves, suggesting that the localization of TaGI1 transcripts in leaves may function to regulate flowering in response to photoperiods. Since overexpression of TaGI1 altered flowering time in wild type and complemented the gi mutant in Arabidopsis, it confirmed that TaGI1 is an ortholog of GI in Arabidopsis.

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    Xiang Yu Zhao, Mao Sen Liu, Jia Rui Li, Chun Mei Guan & Xian Sheng Zhang

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Zhao, X.Y., Liu, M.S., Li, J.R. et al. The wheat TaGI1, involved in photoperiodic flowering, encodesan Arabidopsis GI ortholog. Plant Mol Biol 58, 53–64 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-005-4162-2

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