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Rice NIN-LIKE PROTEIN 4 plays a pivotal role in nitrogen use efficiency.

Plant biotechnology journal (2020-09-03)
Jie Wu, Zi-Sheng Zhang, Jin-Qiu Xia, Alamin Alfatih, Ying Song, Yi-Jie Huang, Guang-Yu Wan, Liang-Qi Sun, Hui Tang, Yang Liu, Shi-Mei Wang, Qi-Sheng Zhu, Peng Qin, Yu-Ping Wang, Shi-Gui Li, Chuan-Zao Mao, Gui-Quan Zhang, Chengcai Chu, Lin-Hui Yu, Cheng-Bin Xiang
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Nitrogen (N) is one of the key essential macronutrients that affects rice growth and yield. Inorganic N fertilizers are excessively used to boost yield and generate serious collateral environmental pollution. Therefore, improving crop N use efficiency (NUE) is highly desirable and has been a major endeavour in crop improvement. However, only a few regulators have been identified that can be used to improve NUE in rice to date. Here we show that the rice NIN-like protein 4 (OsNLP4) significantly improves the rice NUE and yield. Field trials consistently showed that loss-of-OsNLP4 dramatically reduced yield and NUE compared with wild type under different N regimes. In contrast, the OsNLP4 overexpression lines remarkably increased yield by 30% and NUE by 47% under moderate N level compared with wild type. Transcriptomic analyses revealed that OsNLP4 orchestrates the expression of a majority of known N uptake, assimilation and signalling genes by directly binding to the nitrate-responsive cis-element in their promoters to regulate their expression. Moreover, overexpression of OsNLP4 can recover the phenotype of Arabidopsis nlp7 mutant and enhance its biomass. Our results demonstrate that OsNLP4 plays a pivotal role in rice NUE and sheds light on crop NUE improvement.

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Cloruro de amonio-15N, ≥98 atom % 15N, ≥99% (CP)
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Potassium nitrate-15N, 98 atom % 15N
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