The invention discloses an application of ZmZFP1
protein and a coding
gene thereof in regulation and control of
plant root development, and provides an application of the ZmZFP1
protein or related
biological materials thereof in regulation and control of
plant root development, and the related
biological materials are
nucleic acid molecules capable of expressing the ZmZFP1
protein or expression cassettes, recombinant vectors, recombinant
bacteria or
mutant cell lines containing the
nucleic acid molecules. The ZmZFP1 protein is a protein as shown in SEQ ID No.2 or a protein which has one or more
nucleotide or
amino acid differences with the protein as shown in SEQ ID No.2 and has the same function as the protein as the protein as shown in SEQ ID No.2. By knocking out ZmZFP1 or inhibiting ZmZFP1 expression of a corn
mutant, the growth of a main root under
low nitrogen stress treatment is obviously inhibited, which indicates that the
gene responds to
low nitrogen stress by regulating the growth of the main root, and the application provides a new
germplasm resource for cultivating a new
low nitrogen resistant corn variety, and has a wide application prospect. And a theoretical basis is laid for researching a mechanism of
plant response to stress signals and a
molecular mechanism of plant tolerance to adverse environments.