文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Yu, Lin-Hui ¹ ; Wu, Jie ¹ ; Tang, Hui ¹ ; Yuan, Yang ¹ ; Wang, Shi-Mei ² ; Wang, Yu-Ping ³ ; Zhu, Qi-Sheng ² ; Li, Shi-Gu ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Univ Sci & Technol China, Sch Life Sci, Hefei 230027, Anhui, Peoples R China

2.Anhui Acad Agr Sci, Rice Res Inst, Hefei 230031, Peoples R China

3.Sichuan Agr Univ, Rice Res Inst, Chengdu 611130, Peoples R China

期刊名称：SCIENTIFIC REPORTS （ 影响因子：4.379； 五年影响因子：5.133 ）

ISSN： 2045-2322

年卷期： 2016 年 6 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Nitrogen is essential for plant survival and growth. Excessive application of nitrogenous fertilizer has generated serious environment pollution and increased production cost in agriculture. To deal with this problem, tremendous efforts have been invested worldwide to increase the nitrogen use ability of crops. However, only limited success has been achieved to date. Here we report that NLP7 (NIN-LIKE PROTEIN 7) is a potential candidate to improve plant nitrogen use ability. When overexpressed in Arabidopsis, NLP7 increases plant biomass under both nitrogen-poor and -rich conditions with better-developed root system and reduced shoot/root ratio. NLP7-overexpressing plants show a significant increase in key nitrogen metabolites, nitrogen uptake, total nitrogen content, and expression levels of genes involved in nitrogen assimilation and signalling. More importantly, overexpression of NLP7 also enhances photosynthesis rate and carbon assimilation, whereas knockout of NLP7 impaired both nitrogen and carbon assimilation. In addition, NLP7 improves plant growth and nitrogen use in transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum). Our results demonstrate that NLP7 significantly improves plant growth under both nitrogen-poor and -rich conditions by coordinately enhancing nitrogen and carbon assimilation and sheds light on crop improvement.