The invention relates to a GhDR
gene capable of simultaneously regulating and controlling red leaf, dwarf and
cold resistance characters of cotton as well as an encoding
protein and application of the GhDR
gene, and relates to the technical field of
plant genetic engineering, the
nucleotide sequence of the GhDR
gene is shown as SEQ ID NO.1, and the
amino acid sequence of the encoding
protein is shown as SEQ ID NO.2. According to the invention, phenotypes of high
anthocyanin accumulation content in stems and leaves, dwarf
plant height and low
temperature resistance in a
seedling stage of a cotton
plant over-expressed with the GhDR gene are found, which indicates that the GhDR gene has the functions of simultaneously regulating and controlling the cotton plant height,
anthocyanin accumulation and low
temperature resistance in the
seedling stage; the GhDR gene and the encoding
protein thereof are used for regulating and controlling
anthocyanin accumulation, plant height
dwarfing and low-
temperature stress resistance functions, so that the plant height of cotton is improved, and the cotton is suitable for mechanized production; creating cotton marker characters, and carrying out cotton
heterosis utilization
hybrid identification; and gene resources and improvement strategies are provided for the application in the aspects of cultivating low-temperature-resistant varieties, prolonging the growth period of the cotton by timely early
sowing and the like.