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Article Addendum
Role of HY5 in abscisic acid response in seeds and seedlings
Hao Chen and Liming Xiong
volume 3 | issue 11
november 2008Subscribe to this journal for $79/year
Seed dormancy offers plants an adaptive advantage that is crucial to their successful colonization of land. The decision to make the transition from a dormant seed to a photoautotrophic seedling is a result of a complex interaction of internal hormonal signals and external stimuli such as water, temperature, and light. We recently showed that HY5, a well-characterized component in the light signaling pathway, also mediates abscisic acid (ABA) response during seed germination, early seedling growth, and root development in Arabidopsis. We proposed that HY5 regulates these ABA responses partly by directly activating the transcription factor gene ABI5. By analyzing the premature germination of hy5 and abi5 single and double mutants, here we demonstrated that HY5 also positively controls seed maturation and dormancy, likely through direct activation of the ABI5 gene. The contrasting role of light regulation of seed development and germination may be important for the adaptation of plants to the environment.
Addendum to: Chen H, Zhang J, Neff MM, Hong S-W, Zhang H, Deng X-W, Xiong L. Integration of light and abscisic acid signaling during seed germination and early seedling development. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2008; 105:4495-500.
Authors
Hao Chen
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Liming Xiong
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center