Silencing PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE1 in the Obligate Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Species Kalanchoë laxiflora causes Reversion to C ₃ -like Metabolism and Amplifies Rhythmicity in a Subset of Core Circadian Clock Genes

Boxall, Susanna ORCID: 0000-0002-8753-101X, Kadu, Nirja, Dever, Louisa ORCID: 0000-0001-7801-5622, Kneřová, Jana, Waller, Jade, Gould, Peter ORCID: 0000-0002-0709-1190 and Hartwell, James ORCID: 0000-0001-5000-223X (2019) Silencing PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE1 in the Obligate Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Species Kalanchoë laxiflora causes Reversion to C ₃ -like Metabolism and Amplifies Rhythmicity in a Subset of Core Circadian Clock Genes BioRXiv Plant Biology. 684050-. ISSN 2692-8205

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Abstract

<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Unlike C 3 plants, Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants fix CO 2 in the dark using phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PPC; EC 4.1.1.31). PPC combines PEP with CO 2 (as HCO 3 − ), forming oxaloacetate that is rapidly converted to malate, leading to vacuolar malic acid accumulation that peaks phased to dawn. In the light period, malate decarboxylation concentrates CO 2 around RuBisCO for secondary fixation. CAM mutants lacking PPC have not been described. Here, RNAi was employed to silence CAM isogene PPC1 in Kalanchoë laxiflora . Line rPPC1-B lacked PPC1 transcripts, PPC activity, dark period CO 2 fixation, and nocturnal malate accumulation. Light period stomatal closure was also perturbed, and the plants displayed reduced but detectable dark period stomatal conductance, and arrhythmia of the CAM CO 2 fixation circadian rhythm under constant light and temperature (LL) free-running conditions. By contrast, the rhythm of delayed fluorescence was enhanced in plants lacking PPC1 . Furthermore, a subset of gene transcripts within the central circadian oscillator were up-regulated and oscillated robustly. The regulation guard cell genes involved controlling stomatal movements was also altered in rPPC1-B . This provided direct evidence that altered regulatory patterns of key guard cell signaling genes are linked with the characteristic inverse pattern of stomatal opening and closing during CAM.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	30 Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences, 3108 Plant Biology, 31 Biological Sciences, Genetics, Sleep Research
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	28 Oct 2019 09:22
Last Modified:	28 May 2026 03:39
DOI:	10.1101/684050
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3059532
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