The invention relates to the technical field of
gene engineering, in particular to application of an AaTPS
gene in regulation and control of
plant seed sizes. The invention provides an application of an AaTPS
gene in regulating and controlling the size of a
plant seed. According to the invention, the wormwood AaTPS gene is cloned from
Artemisia vulgaris, and an overexpression vector driven by a 35S constitutive
promoter is successfully constructed and transformed into
arabidopsis thaliana. Compared with a wild control
plant, the expression quantity of the three transgenic
Arabidopsis thaliana T3-generation strains is obviously increased. Compared with a
wild type control, the thousand seed weights of the three transgenic
arabidopsis pure line seeds are increased by 40.58%, 46.12% and 53.74% respectively and reach a remarkable level; meanwhile, the length of the seeds of the transgenic line is obviously increased and reaches a remarkable level, and the width of the seeds of the OE7 line is also obviously increased. The invention can provide a new gene resource for improving the size of plant seeds, and has important application value in the aspect of
plant breeding.