The invention discloses an application of a TaERF9
gene in cooperation with
histone modification to participate in
nitrogen-mediated root development. The homologous genes of three subgenomes of the TaERF9
gene respectively correspond to the
GenBank numbers of CM022223.1, CM022224.1 and CM022225.1 in NCBI (National Center of
Biotechnology Information). According to the invention, wheat KN199 is directionally edited by using a
CRISPR-Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-associated
protein 9) technology, so that a
mutant plant with TaERF9 function deletion is obtained.
Protein interaction experiments prove that the TaERF9 can interact with the
subunit SWN of the PRC2. The results of high-
nitrogen and low-
nitrogen water culture experiments show that TaERF9
gene mutation significantly promotes root development under a high-nitrogen condition; under the low-nitrogen condition, the root development of the
mutant is kept similar to that of a
wild type, the ability of balancing the root development under different nitrogen supply conditions is shown, and the effect of the TaERF9 gene in nitrogen response mediated root development regulation is revealed. That is to say, the TaERF9 gene can promote root development after
mutation, so that a gene resource is provided for nitrogen-efficient breeding of crops.