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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2020, Vol. 19 Issue (9): 2150-2164    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(19)62814-5
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Identification and gene mapping of the starch accumulation and premature leaf senescence mutant ossac4 in rice
ZHU Mao-di*, CHEN Xin-long*, ZHU Xiao-yan, XING Ya-di, DU Dan, ZHANG Ying-ying, LIU Ming-ming, ZHANG Qiu-li, LU Xin, PENG Sha-sha, HE Guang-hua, ZHANG Tian-quan
Rice Research Institute, Key Laboratory of Application and Safety Control of Genetically Modified Crops, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, P.R.China
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Abstract  
The rice mutant ossac4 (starch accumulating 4) was raised from seeds of the rice (Oryza sativa L.) indica maintainer line Xinong 1B treated with ethyl methanesulfonate.  The distal and medial portions of the second leaf displayed premature senescence in the ossac4 mutant at the four-leaf stage.  Physiological and biochemical analysis, and cytological examination revealed that the ossac4 mutant exhibited the premature leaf senescence phenotype.  At the four-leaf stage, the leaves of the ossac4 mutant exhibited significantly increased contents of starch compared with those of the wild type (WT).  Quantitative real-time PCR analysis showed that the expression levels of photosynthesis-associated genes were down-regulated and the expression levels of glucose metabolism-associated genes were abnormal.  Genetic analysis indicated that the ossac4 mutation was controlled by a single recessive nuclear gene.  The OsSAC4 gene was localized to a 322.7-kb interval between the simple-sequence repeat marker XYH11-90 and the single-nucleotide polymorphism marker SNP5300 on chromosome 11.  The target interval contained 20 annotated genes.  The present results demonstrated that ossac4 represents a novel starch accumulation and premature leaf senescence mutant, and lays the foundation for cloning and functional analysis of OsSAC4.
Keywords:  Oryza sativa L.        gene mapping        glucose metabolism        premature senescence        starch accumulation  
Received: 24 April 2019   Accepted:
Fund: This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFD0100201), the Project of Chongqing Science & Technology Commission Grants, China (CSTCCXLJRC201713 and CSTC2016SHMS-ZTZX0017), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (XDJK2017C030).
Corresponding Authors:  Correspondence ZHANG Tian-quan, Tel/Fax: +86-23-68250158, E-mail: 1121461349@qq.com    
About author:  * These authors contributed equally to this study.

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ZHU Mao-di, CHEN Xin-long, ZHU Xiao-yan, XING Ya-di, DU Dan, ZHANG Ying-ying, LIU Ming-ming, ZHANG Qiu-li, LU Xin, PENG Sha-sha, HE Guang-hua, ZHANG Tian-quan. 2020. Identification and gene mapping of the starch accumulation and premature leaf senescence mutant ossac4 in rice. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 19(9): 2150-2164.

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