Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

NIN-like protein 8 is a master regulator of nitrate-promoted seed germination in Arabidopsis

  • Dawei Yan,
  • Vanathy Easwaran,
  • Vivian Chau,
  • Masanori Okamoto,
  • Matthew Ierullo,
  • Mitsuhiro Kimura,
  • Akira Endo,
  • Ryoichi Yano,
  • Asher Pasha,
  • Yunchen Gong,
  • Yong-Mei Bi,
  • Nicolas Provart,
  • David Guttman,
  • Anne Krapp,
  • Steven J. Rothstein,
  • Eiji Nambara

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13179
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Nitrate stimulates seed germination in many plant species. Here, Yan et al. show that the Arabidopsistranscription factor NIN-like protein 8 is required to stimulate germination in response to nitrate and induces expression of an enzyme involved in ABA catabolism.