Map-based cloning of chloronerva, a gene involved in iron uptake of higher plants encoding nicotianamine synthase

AUTOR(ES)

Ling, Hong-Qing

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

The uptake of iron in plants is a highly regulated process that is induced on iron starvation. In tomato, the mutant chloronerva exhibits constitutive expression of iron uptake responses and intercostal chlorosis. Biochemically, chloronerva is an auxotroph for nicotianamine, a key polyamine in plant iron uptake metabolism. The chloronerva gene has been fine-mapped onto the long arm of chromosome 1 in a large segregating tomato population and yeast artificial chromosome clones encompassing the region were isolated by using flanking markers. A cosmid contig containing the chloronerva gene was established, and complementing cosmids were identified by transformation into the mutant. The chloronerva transcript was identified by cDNA isolation using the complementing cosmids. The gene encodes a unique protein of 35 kDa. The mutant harbors a single base change compared with the wild type. Based on enzyme activity and sequence similarity to the coding DNA sequence of the purified barley enzyme the chloronerva gene encodes the enzyme nicotianamine synthase.

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