Manipulating the expression of a cell wall invertase gene increases grain yield in maize
2018
Bi, Yu-Jing | Sun, Zhen-Cang | Zhang, Jessie | Liu, En-Qi | Shen, Han-Mei | Lai, Kun-Long | Zhang, Shuai | Guo, Xiao-Tong | Sheng, Yu-Ting | Yu, Chun-Yan | Qiao, Xu-Qiang | Li, Bei | Zhang, Hongxia
Cell wall invertases play an important role in plant growth and development, especially in the grain filling of crop plants. However, their potential in high yield crop breeding has not been investigated. In this study, the main hybrid maize cultivar Zheng Dan 958 (ZD958) was used as a basic variety to assess whether ZmGIF1, a cell wall invertase from maize, can be used to breed new cultivars with higher grain yields. ZmGIF1 expression, cell wall invertase activity, and sugar content in different parental inbred cultivars were compared with those in Zheng 58 and Chang 7-2, the parental inbred cultivars of ZD958. Parental cultivars which showed higher ZmGIF1 expression and invertase activity were selected and intercrossed to improve the expression of ZmGIF1. Compared with the basic cultivar ZD958, higher ZmGIF1 expression and cell wall invertase activity were observed in most hybrid F1 lines, leading to increased grain yield in them. All these results suggest that the expression of ZmGIF1 can be manipulated using different parental cultivars to increase the grain yield of their hybrid F1 progenies.
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