Maize resistance to witchweed through changes in strigolactone biosynthesis

Author:

Li C.1ORCID,Dong L.1ORCID,Durairaj J.2ORCID,Guan J.-C.3ORCID,Yoshimura M.456ORCID,Quinodoz P.5ORCID,Horber R.5ORCID,Gaus K.5ORCID,Li J.7ORCID,Setotaw Y. B.7ORCID,Qi J.7ORCID,De Groote H.8ORCID,Wang Y.1ORCID,Thiombiano B.1ORCID,Floková K.19ORCID,Walmsley A.1ORCID,Charnikhova T. V.1,Chojnacka A.1,Correia de Lemos S.210ORCID,Ding Y.11ORCID,Skibbe D.12ORCID,Hermann K.5ORCID,Screpanti C.5ORCID,De Mesmaeker A.5,Schmelz E. A.11ORCID,Menkir A.13ORCID,Medema M.2ORCID,Van Dijk A. D. J.2ORCID,Wu J.7ORCID,Koch K. E.3,Bouwmeester H. J.1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Plant Hormone Biology Group, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2. Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University & Research, 6708 PB Wageningen, Netherlands.

3. Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

4. Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.

5. Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Schaffhauserstrasse 101, CH-4332 Stein, Switzerland.

6. Kyoto University, iCeMS, Yoshida Ushinomiya-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.

7. Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.

8. International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), PO Box 1041-00621, Nairobi, Kenya.

9. Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Institute of Experimental Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Šlechtitelů 27, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic.

10. Plant genomics and transcriptomics group, Institute of Biosciences, Sao Paulo State University, 13506-900 Rio Claro, Brazil.

11. Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at San Diego; La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.

12. Seeds Research, Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA.

13. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, PMB 5320 Oyo Road, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Abstract

Maize ( Zea mays ) is a major staple crop in Africa, where its yield and the livelihood of millions are compromised by the parasitic witchweed Striga . Germination of Striga is induced by strigolactones exuded from maize roots into the rhizosphere. In a maize germplasm collection, we identified two strigolactones, zealactol and zealactonoic acid, which stimulate less Striga germination than the major maize strigolactone, zealactone. We then showed that a single cytochrome P450, ZmCYP706C37, catalyzes a series of oxidative steps in the maize-strigolactone biosynthetic pathway. Reduction in activity of this enzyme and two others involved in the pathway, ZmMAX1b and ZmCLAMT1, can change strigolactone composition and reduce Striga germination and infection. These results offer prospects for breeding Striga -resistant maize.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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