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Hu J, Luo M, Zhou X, Wang Z, Yan L, Hong D, Yang G, Zhang X. RING-type E3 ligase BnaJUL1 ubiquitinates and degrades BnaTBCC1 to regulate drought tolerance in Brassica napus L. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2024; 47:1023-1040. [PMID: 37984059 DOI: 10.1111/pce.14770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Revised: 08/26/2023] [Accepted: 09/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
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Drought stress poses a persistent threat to field crops and significantly limits global agricultural productivity. Plants employ ubiquitin-dependent degradation as a crucial post-translational regulatory mechanism to swiftly adapt to changing environmental conditions. JUL1 is a RING-type E3 ligase related to drought stress in Arabidopsis. In this study, we explored the function of BnaJUL1 (a homologous gene of JUL1 in Brassica napus) and discovered a novel gene BnaTBCC1 participating in drought tolerance. First, we utilised BnaJUL1-cri materials through the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated protein 9 system. Second, we confirmed that BnaJUL1 regulated drought tolerance through the drought tolerance assay and transcriptome analysis. Then, we identified a series of proteins interacting with BnaJUL1 through yeast library screening, including BnaTBCC1 (a tubulin binding cofactor C domain-containing protein); whose homologous gene TBCC1 knockdown mutants (tbcc1-1) exhibited ABA-sensitive germination in Arabidopsis, we then confirmed the involvement of BnaTBCC1 in drought tolerance in both Arabidopsis and Brassica. Finally, we established that BnaJUL1 could ubiquitinate and degrade BnaTBCC1 to regulate drought tolerance. Consequently, our study unveils BnaJUL1 as a novel regulator that ubiquitinates and degrades BnaTBCC1 to modulate drought tolerance and provided desirable germplasm for further breeding of drought tolerance in rapeseed.
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- Jin Hu
- Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya Nanfan Research Institute of Hainan University, Sanya, China
- College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya Nanfan Research Institute of Hainan University, Sanya, China
- College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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- Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya Nanfan Research Institute of Hainan University, Sanya, China
- College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya Nanfan Research Institute of Hainan University, Sanya, China
- College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou, China
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya Nanfan Research Institute of Hainan University, Sanya, China
- College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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Zhang Y, Zhang Q, Wang H, Tao S, Cao H, Shi Y, Bakirov A, Xu A, Huang Z. Discovery of common loci and candidate genes for controlling salt-alkali tolerance and yield-related traits in Brassica napus L. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2023; 42:1039-1057. [PMID: 37076701 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-023-03011-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Common loci and candidate genes for controlling salt-alkali tolerance and yield-related traits were identified in Brassica napus combining QTL mapping with transcriptome under salt and alkaline stresses. The yield of rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is determined by multiple yield-related traits, which are susceptible to environmental factors. Many yield-related quantitative trait loci (QTLs) have been reported in Brassica napus; however, no studies have been conducted to investigate both salt-alkali tolerance and yield-related traits simultaneously. Here, specific-locus amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq) technologies were utilized to map the QTLs for salt-alkali tolerance and yield-related traits. A total of 65 QTLs were identified, including 30 QTLs for salt-alkali tolerance traits and 35 QTLs for yield-related traits, accounting for 7.61-27.84% of the total phenotypic variations. Among these QTLs, 18 unique QTLs controlling two to four traits were identified by meta-analysis. Six novel and unique QTLs were detected for salt-alkali tolerance traits. By comparing these unique QTLs for salt-alkali tolerance traits with those previously reported QTLs for yield-related traits, seven co-localized chromosomal regions were identified on A09 and A10. Combining QTL mapping with transcriptome of two parents under salt and alkaline stresses, thirteen genes were identified as the candidates controlling both salt-alkali tolerance and yield. These findings provide useful information for future breeding of high-yield cultivars resistant to alkaline and salt stresses.
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- Yan Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China.
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The biological functions of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in plants: RNA quality control and beyond. Biochem Soc Trans 2023; 51:31-39. [PMID: 36695509 DOI: 10.1042/bst20211231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2022] [Revised: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 01/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is an evolutionarily conserved quality control pathway that inhibits the expression of transcripts containing premature termination codon. Transcriptome and phenotypic studies across a range of organisms indicate roles of NMD beyond RNA quality control and imply its involvement in regulating gene expression in a wide range of physiological processes. Studies in moss Physcomitrella patens and Arabidopsis thaliana have shown that NMD is also important in plants where it contributes to the regulation of pathogen defence, hormonal signalling, circadian clock, reproduction and gene evolution. Here, we provide up to date overview of the biological functions of NMD in plants. In addition, we discuss several biological processes where NMD factors implement their function through NMD-independent mechanisms.
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Ahmad A, Li W, Zhang H, Wang H, Wang P, Jiao Y, Zhao C, Yang G, Hong D. Linkage and association mapping of ovule number per ovary (ON) in oilseed rape ( Brassica napus L.). MOLECULAR BREEDING : NEW STRATEGIES IN PLANT IMPROVEMENT 2023; 43:11. [PMID: 37313129 PMCID: PMC10248604 DOI: 10.1007/s11032-023-01355-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Ovule number (ON) produced during flower development determines the maximum number of seeds per silique and thereby affects crop productivity; however, the genetic basis of ON remains poorly understood in oilseed rape (Brassica napus). In this study, we genetically dissected the ON variations in a double haploid (DH) population and in natural population (NP) by linkage mapping and genome-wide association analysis. Phenotypic analysis showed that ON displayed normal distribution in both populations with the broad-sense heritability of 0.861 (DH population) and 0.930 (natural population). Linkage mapping identified 5 QTLs related to ON, including qON-A03, qON-A07, qON-A07-2, qON-A10, and qON-C06. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) revealed 214, 48, and 40 significant single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) by individually using the single-locus model GLM and the multiple-locus model MrMLM and FASTMrMLM. The phenotypic variation explained (PVE) by these QTLs and SNPs ranged from 2.00-17.40% to 5.03-7.33%, respectively. Integration of the results from both strategies identified four consensus genomic regions associated with ON from the chromosomes A03, A07, and A10. Our results preliminarily resolved the genetic basis of ON and provides useful molecular markers for plant yield improvement in B. napus. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11032-023-01355-7.
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- Ali Ahmad
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 People’s Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 People’s Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 People’s Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 People’s Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 People’s Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 People’s Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 People’s Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 People’s Republic of China
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 People’s Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 People’s Republic of China
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 People’s Republic of China
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Zhou X, Zhang H, Xie Z, Liu Y, Wang P, Dai L, Zhang X, Wang Z, Wang Z, Wan L, Yang G, Hong D. Natural variation and artificial selection at the BnaC2.MYB28 locus modulate Brassica napus seed glucosinolate. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 191:352-368. [PMID: 36179100 PMCID: PMC9806571 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiac463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The degradation products of glucosinolates (GSLs) greatly lower the nutritional value of rapeseed (Brassica napus) meal; thus, reduction of seed GSL content (SGC) has become an important objective of rapeseed breeding. In our previous study, we finely mapped a major QTL (qGSL-C2) for SGC to a 49-kb collinear region on B. rapa chromosome A2. Here, we experimentally validated that BnaC2.MYB28, encoding an R2R3-MYB transcription factor, is the causal gene of qGSL-C2. BnaC2.MYB28 is a nucleus-localized protein mainly expressed in vegetative tissues. Knockout of BnaC2.MYB28 in the high-SGC parent G120 reduced SGC to a value lower than that in the low-SGC parent ZY50, while overexpression of BnaC2.MYB28 in both parental lines (G120 and ZY50) led to extremely high SGC, indicating that BnaC2.MYB28 acts as a positive regulator of SGC in both parents. Molecular characterization revealed that BnaC2.MYB28 forms a homodimer and specifically interacts with BnaMYC3. Moreover, BnaC2.MYB28 can directly activate the expression of GSL biosynthesis genes. Differential expression abundance resulting from the polymorphic promoter sequences, in combination with the different capability in activating downstream genes involved in aliphatic GSL biosynthesis, caused the functional divergence of BnaC2.MYB28 in SGC regulation between the parents. Natural variation of BnaC2.MYB28 was highly associated with SGC in natural germplasm and has undergone artificial selection in modern low-GSL breeding. This study provides important insights into the core function of BnaC2.MYB28 in regulating SGC and a promising strategy for manipulating SGC in rapeseed.
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- Xianming Zhou
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Sanya Nanfan Research Institute of Hainan University, Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya 572025, China
- College of Tropical Crops Hainan University, Hainan University, Haikou 570288, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Sanya Nanfan Research Institute of Hainan University, Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya 572025, China
- College of Tropical Crops Hainan University, Hainan University, Haikou 570288, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Institute of Crops, Wuhan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan 430065, China
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- Institute of Crops, Wuhan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan 430065, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan 430070, China
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Zhang C, Gong R, Zhong H, Dai C, Zhang R, Dong J, Li Y, Liu S, Hu J. Integrated multi-locus genome-wide association studies and transcriptome analysis for seed yield and yield-related traits in Brassica napus. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1153000. [PMID: 37123841 PMCID: PMC10140536 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1153000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2023] [Accepted: 03/21/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.), the third largest oil crop, is an important source of vegetable oil and biofuel for the world. Although the breeding and yield has been improved, rapeseed still has the lowest yield compared with other major crops. Thus, increasing rapeseed yield is essential for the high demand of vegetable oil and high-quality protein for live stocks. Silique number per plant (SN), seed per pod (SP), and 1000-seed weight (SW) are the three important factors for seed yield in rapeseed. Some yield-related traits, including plant height (PH), flowering time (FT), primary branch number (BN) and silique number per inflorescence (SI) also affect the yield per plant (YP). Using six multi-locus genome-wide association study (ML-GWAS) approaches, a total of 908 yield-related quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs) were identified in a panel consisting of 403 rapeseed core accessions based on whole-genome sequencing. Integration of ML-GWAS with transcriptome analysis, 79 candidate genes, including BnaA09g39790D (RNA helicase), BnaA09g39950D (Lipase) and BnaC09g25980D (SWEET7), were further identified and twelve genes were validated by qRT-PCRs to affect the SW or SP in rapeseed. The distribution of superior alleles from nineteen stable QTNs in 20 elite rapeseed accessions suggested that the high-yielding accessions contained more superior alleles. These results would contribute to a further understanding of the genetic basis of yield-related traits and could be used for crop improvement in B. napus.
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- Cuiping Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Population Sciences in the Pacific Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Population Sciences in the Pacific Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
- *Correspondence: Jihong Hu, ; Shuai Liu,
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
- *Correspondence: Jihong Hu, ; Shuai Liu,
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Ping X, Ye Q, Yan M, Zeng J, Yan X, Li H, Li J, Liu L. Integrated genetic mapping and transcriptome analysis reveal the BnaA03.IAA7 protein regulates plant architecture and gibberellin signaling in Brassica napus L. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2022; 135:3497-3510. [PMID: 35962210 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-022-04196-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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A novel mutation in the BnaA03.IAA7 protein reduces plant height and enhances gibberellin signaling in Brassica napus L. Rapeseed (Brassica napus) is an excellent and important source for vegetable oil production, but its production is severely affected by lodging. Lodging hinders mechanization and decreases yield, and an ideal solution is semidwarf breeding. Limited by germplasm resources, semidwarf breeding developed slowly in rapeseed. In the current study, a mutant called sdA03 was isolated from EMS-mutagenized lines of Zhongshuang 11 (ZS11). The inheritance analysis showed that phenotypes of sdA03 were controlled by a single semidominant gene. Genetic mapping, RNA-seq and candidate gene analysis identified BnaA03.IAA7 as a candidate gene, and a function test confirmed that the mutated BnaA03.iaa7 regulates plant architecture in a dose-dependent manner. Yeast two-hybrid and transient expression experiments illustrated the P87L substitution in the GWPPV/I degron motif of BnaA03.iaa7 impaired the interaction between BnaA03.IAA7 and TIR1 proteins, and BnaA03.iaa7 prevented ARF from activating the auxin signaling pathway.The gibberellin (GA) content was higher in sdA03 hypocotyls than in those of ZS11. Further expression analysis showed more active gibberellin signaling in hypocotyl and richer expression of GA synthetic genes in root and cotyledon of sdA03 seedlings. Finally, a marker was developed based on the SNP found in BnaA03.iaa7 and used in molecular breeding. The study enriched our understanding of the architectural regulation of rapeseed and provided germplasm resources for breeding.
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- Xiaoke Ping
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-Resources, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China.
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Liu J, Wu Y, Cui X, Zhang X, Xie M, Liu L, Liu Y, Huang J, Cheng X, Liu S. Genome-wide characterization of ovate family protein gene family associated with number of seeds per silique in Brassica napus. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:962592. [PMID: 36186010 PMCID: PMC9515500 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.962592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Ovate family proteins (OFPs) were firstly identified in tomato as proteins controlling the pear shape of the fruit. Subsequent studies have successively proved that OFPs are a class of negative regulators of plant development, and are involved in the regulation of complex traits in different plants. However, there has been no report about the functions of OFPs in rapeseed growth to date. Here, we identified the OFPs in rapeseed at the genomic level. As a result, a total of 67 members were obtained. We then analyzed the evolution from Arabidopsis thaliana to Brassica napus, illustrated their phylogenetic and syntenic relationships, and compared the gene structure and conserved domains between different copies. We also analyzed their expression patterns in rapeseed, and found significant differences in the expression of different members and in different tissues. Additionally, we performed a GWAS for the number of seeds per silique (NSPS) in a rapeseed population consisting of 204 natural accessions, and identified a new gene BnOFP13_2 significantly associated with NSPS, which was identified as a novel function of OFPs. Haplotype analysis revealed that the accessions with haplotype 3 had a higher NSPS than other accessions, suggesting that BnOFP13_2 is associated with NSPS. Transcript profiling during the five stages of silique development demonstrated that BnOFP13_2 negatively regulates NSPS. These findings provide evidence for functional diversity of OFP gene family and important implications for oilseed rape breeding.
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Qadir M, Qin L, Ye J, Ahmad N, Wang X, Shi J, Wang H. Genetic dissection of the natural variation of ovule number per ovary in oilseed rape germplasm ( Brassica napus L.). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:999790. [PMID: 36176675 PMCID: PMC9513589 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.999790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2022] [Accepted: 08/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Oilseed rape is one of the world's largest oil and industrial crops, providing humans with various products, such as vegetable oil and biofuel. Ovules are the direct precursors of seeds, and ovule number per ovary (ONPO) largely determines seed number per fruit that affects both yield and fitness of seed crops. The ONPO shows wide variation in oilseed rape, whereas the underlying genes and mechanisms are poorly known. The present study performed the genetic, physiological and transcriptomic analyses of ovule number per ovary using an association panel and the extreme lines. The ONPO of 327 accessions planted in four environments showed a large variation from 19.2 to 43.8, indicating a great potential for the further genetic improvement of ovule number. The genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified a total of 43 significant SNP markers. Further, these SNPs were integrated into 18 association loci, which were distributed on chromosomes A01, A03, A06, A07, A09, C01, C03, C06, C07, and C09, explaining 4.3-11.5% of the phenotypic variance. The ONPO decreased as their appearance order on the inflorescence and was associated with the level of several types of endogenous phytohormones but not related to leaf area and photosynthetic rate. Comparative transcriptomic analysis identified a total of 4,449 DEGs enriched in 30 classes, including DNA, RNA, protein, signaling, transport, development, cell wall, lipid metabolism, and secondary metabolism. Nearly half of DEGs were involved in the known pathways in regulating ovule number, of which 12 were homologous to know ovule number regulating genes, indicating a strong link between the identified DEGs and ovule number. A total of 73 DEGs were located within the genomic regions of association loci, of which six were identified as candidates based on functional annotation. These results provide useful information for the further genetic improvement of ovule and seed number in oilseed rape.
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- Muslim Qadir
- Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Wuhan, China
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- Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Wuhan, China
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- Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Wuhan, China
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- Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Wuhan, China
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- Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, China
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- Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Wuhan, China
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- Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, China
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Zhao C, Xie M, Liang L, Yang L, Han H, Qin X, Zhao J, Hou Y, Dai W, Du C, Xiang Y, Liu S, Huang X. Genome-Wide Association Analysis Combined With Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping and Dynamic Transcriptome Unveil the Genetic Control of Seed Oil Content in Brassica napus L. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:929197. [PMID: 35845656 PMCID: PMC9283957 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.929197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Rapeseed, an allotetraploid oil crop, provides vegetable oil for human consumption. The growing demand for oilseeds has necessitated the development of rapeseed varieties with improved quality. Therefore, a clear understanding of the genetic basis underlying the seed oil content (SOC) is required. In this study, a natural population comprising 204 diverse accessions and recombinant inbred lines (RILs) derived from Brassica napus and Sinapis alba via distant hybridization were collected for genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) and quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping of the SOC trait, respectively. The variable coefficient of the RIL and natural populations ranged from 7.43 to 10.43% and 8.40 to 10.91%. Then, a high-density linkage map was constructed based on whole genome re-sequencing (WGS); the map harbored 2,799 bin markers and covered a total distance of 1,835.21 cM, with an average marker interval of 0.66 cM. The QTLs for SOC on chromosome A07 were stably detected in both single and multiple environments. Finally, a novel locus qA07.SOC was identified as the major QTL for SOC based on the GWAS and RIL populations. In addition, the RNA-seq results showed that photosynthesis, lipid biosynthesis proteins, fatty acid metabolism, and unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis were significantly different between the developed seeds of the two parents of the RIL population. By comparing the variation information and expression levels of the syntenic genes within qA07.SOC and its syntenic genomic regions, as well as through haplotype analysis via GWAS, BnaA07.STR18, BnaA07.NRT1, and BnaA07g12880D were predicted as candidate genes in the qA07.SOC interval. These stable QTLs containing candidate genes and haplotypes can potentially provide a reliable basis for marker-assisted selection in B. napus breeding for SOC.
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- Chuanji Zhao
- Guizhou Rapeseed Institute, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Guizhou Rapeseed Institute, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Biosystematics Group, Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Guizhou Rapeseed Institute, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Rapeseed Institute, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Rapeseed Institute, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Rapeseed Institute, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Rapeseed Institute, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Rapeseed Institute, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Rapeseed Institute, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Guizhou Rapeseed Institute, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
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miR398 Attenuates Heat-Induced Leaf Cell Death via Its Target CSD1 in Chinese Cabbage. HORTICULTURAE 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/horticulturae8040299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Previous research has shown that miR398 contributed to plant thermotolerance by silencing its target gene COPPER/ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE1 (CSD1) in Arabidopsis thaliana. However, the phylogenesis of miR398 and CSD1 in Brassica crop and their role in regulating leaf cell death under heat stress remains unexplored. Here, we characterized the homologous genes of miR398a and CSD1 in Brassica rapa ssp. pekinensis (Chinese cabbage) and found miR398a abundance was accumulated under heat stress (38 °C and 46 °C for 1 h) in Chinese cabbage, while the expression level of its targets BraCSD1-1 and BraCSD2-1 were downregulated. To further explore their role in heat response, we constructed the transgenic plants overexpressing artificial miR398a (aBra-miR398a), Bra-miR398a target mimic (Bra-MIM398a), and BraCSD1-1 in Chinese cabbage for genetic study. Under high temperatures, p35S::aBra-miR398a lines reduced the areas of leaf cell death and delayed the leaf cell death. By contrast, p35S::Bra-MIM398a and p35S::BraCSD1-1 plants enlarged the areas of leaf cell death and displayed the earliness of leaf cell death. Finally, we found that the expression level of stress-responsive genes BraLEA76, BraCaM1, BraPLC, BraDREB2A, and BraP5CS increased in transgenic plants overexpressing aBra-miR398a, which may contribute to their resistance to heat-induced leaf cell death. Taken together, these results revealed the function of Bra-miR398a in attenuating leaf cell death to ensure plant thermotolerance, indicating that the miR398-CSD1 module could be potential candidates for heat-resistant crop breeding.
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Zhao X, Yu K, Pang C, Wu X, Shi R, Sun C, Zhang W, Chen F, Zhang J, Wang X. QTL Analysis of Five Silique-Related Traits in Brassica napus L. Across Multiple Environments. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:766271. [PMID: 34887891 PMCID: PMC8650614 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.766271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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As an important physiological and reproductive organ, the silique is a determining factor of seed yield and a breeding target trait in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.). Genetic studies of silique-related traits are helpful for rapeseed marker-assisted high-yield breeding. In this study, a recombinant inbred population containing 189 lines was used to perform a quantitative trait loci (QTLs) analysis for five silique-related traits in seven different environments. As a result, 120 consensus QTLs related to five silique-related traits were identified, including 23 for silique length, 25 for silique breadth, 29 for silique thickness, 22 for seed number per silique and 21 for silique volume, which covered all the chromosomes, except C5. Among them, 13 consensus QTLs, one, five, two, four and one for silique length, silique breadth, silique thickness, seed number per silique and silique volume, respectively, were repeatedly detected in multiple environments and explained 4.38-13.0% of the phenotypic variation. On the basis of the functional annotations of Arabidopsis homologous genes and previously reported silique-related genes, 12 potential candidate genes underlying these 13 QTLs were screened and found to be stable in multiple environments by analyzing the re-sequencing results of the two parental lines. These findings provide new insights into the gene networks affecting silique-related traits at the QTL level in rapeseed.
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- Xiaozhen Zhao
- Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
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- Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China
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- Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China
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- Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China
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- Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China
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- Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China
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Khan SU, Saeed S, Khan MHU, Fan C, Ahmar S, Arriagada O, Shahzad R, Branca F, Mora-Poblete F. Advances and Challenges for QTL Analysis and GWAS in the Plant-Breeding of High-Yielding: A Focus on Rapeseed. Biomolecules 2021; 11:1516. [PMID: 34680149 PMCID: PMC8533950 DOI: 10.3390/biom11101516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2021] [Revised: 10/07/2021] [Accepted: 10/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Yield is one of the most important agronomic traits for the breeding of rapeseed (Brassica napus L), but its genetic dissection for the formation of high yield remains enigmatic, given the rapid population growth. In the present review, we review the discovery of major loci underlying important agronomic traits and the recent advancement in the selection of complex traits. Further, we discuss the benchmark summary of high-throughput techniques for the high-resolution genetic breeding of rapeseed. Biparental linkage analysis and association mapping have become powerful strategies to comprehend the genetic architecture of complex agronomic traits in crops. The generation of improved crop varieties, especially rapeseed, is greatly urged to enhance yield productivity. In this sense, the whole-genome sequencing of rapeseed has become achievable to clone and identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Moreover, the generation of high-throughput sequencing and genotyping techniques has significantly enhanced the precision of QTL mapping and genome-wide association study (GWAS) methodologies. Furthermore, this study demonstrates the first attempt to identify novel QTLs of yield-related traits, specifically focusing on ovule number per pod (ON). We also highlight the recent breakthrough concerning single-locus-GWAS (SL-GWAS) and multi-locus GWAS (ML-GWAS), which aim to enhance the potential and robust control of GWAS for improved complex traits.
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- Shahid Ullah Khan
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; (S.U.K.); (S.S.); (M.H.U.K.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; (S.U.K.); (S.S.); (M.H.U.K.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; (S.U.K.); (S.S.); (M.H.U.K.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; (S.U.K.); (S.S.); (M.H.U.K.)
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Talca, 1 Poniente 1141, Talca 3465548, Chile;
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- Departamento de Ciencias Vegetales, Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile;
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science & Technology, Universitas Muhammadiyah Bandung, Bandung 40614, Indonesia;
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- Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy;
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Talca, 1 Poniente 1141, Talca 3465548, Chile;
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Liu Y, Hua YP, Chen H, Zhou T, Yue CP, Huang JY. Genome-scale identification of plant defensin ( PDF) family genes and molecular characterization of their responses to diverse nutrient stresses in allotetraploid rapeseed. PeerJ 2021; 9:e12007. [PMID: 34603847 PMCID: PMC8445089 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Plant defensins (PDFs), short peptides with strong antibacterial activity, play important roles in plant growth, development, and stress resistance. However, there are few systematic analyses on PDFs in Brassica napus. Here, bioinformatics methods were used to identify genome-wide PDFs in Brassica napus, and systematically analyze physicochemical properties, expansion pattern, phylogeny, and expression profiling of BnaPDFs under diverse nutrient stresses. A total of 37 full-length PDF homologs, divided into two subgroups (PDF1s and PDF2s), were identified in the rapeseed genome. A total of two distinct clades were identified in the BnaPDF phylogeny. Clade specific conserved motifs were identified within each clade respectively. Most BnaPDFs were proved to undergo powerful purified selection. The PDF members had enriched cis-elements related to growth and development, hormone response, environmental stress response in their promoter regions. GO annotations indicate that the functional pathways of BnaPDFs are mainly involved in cells killing and plant defense responses. In addition, bna-miRNA164 and bna-miRNA172 respectively regulate the expression of their targets BnaA2.PDF2.5 and BnaC7.PDF2.6. The expression patterns of BnaPDFs were analyzed in different tissues. BnaPDF1.2bs was mainly expressed in the roots, whereas BnaPDF2.2s and BnaPDF2.3s were both expressed in stamen, pericarp, silique, and stem. However, the other BnaPDF members showed low expression levels in various tissues. Differential expression of BnaPDFs under nitrate limitation, ammonium excess, phosphorus starvation, potassium deficiency, cadmium toxicity, and salt stress indicated that they might participate in different nutrient stress resistance. The genome-wide identification and characterization of BnaPDFs will enrich understanding of their molecular characteristics and provide elite gene resources for genetic improvement of rapeseed resistance to nutrient stresses.
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- Ying Liu
- School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- National Tobacco Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, Zhengzhou, China
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- School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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Zhang X, Huang Q, Wang P, Liu F, Luo M, Li X, Wang Z, Wan L, Yang G, Hong D. A 24,482-bp deletion is associated with increased seed weight in Brassica napus L. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2021; 134:2653-2669. [PMID: 34002254 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-021-03850-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2021] [Accepted: 04/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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A major QTL for seed weight was fine-mapped in rapeseed, and a 24,482-bp deletion likely mediates the effect through multiple pathways. Exploration of the genes controlling seed weight is critical to the improvement of crop yield and elucidation of the mechanisms underlying seed formation in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.). We previously identified the quantitative trait locus (QTL) qSW.C9 for the thousand-seed weight (TSW) in a double haploid population constructed from F1 hybrids between the parental accessions HZ396 and Y106. Here, we confirmed the phenotypic effects associated with qSW.C9 in BC3F2 populations and fine-mapped the candidate causal locus to a 266-kb interval. Sequence and expression analyses revealed that a 24,482-bp deletion in HZ396 containing six predicted genes most likely underlies qSW.C9. Differential gene expression analysis and cytological observations suggested that qSW.C9 affects both cell proliferation and cell expansion through multiple signaling pathways. After genotyping of a rapeseed diversity panel to define the haplotype structure, it could be concluded that the selection of germplasm with two specific markers may be effective in improving the seed weight of rapeseed. This study provides a solid foundation for the identification of the causal gene of qSW.C9 and offers a promising target for the breeding of higher-yielding rapeseed.
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- Xiaohui Zhang
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- Institute of Crops, Wuhan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430065, Hubei, China
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- Institute of Crops, Wuhan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430065, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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Jiao Y, Zhang K, Cai G, Yu K, Amoo O, Han S, Zhao X, Zhang H, Hu L, Wang B, Fan C, Zhou Y. Fine mapping and candidate gene analysis of a major locus controlling ovule abortion and seed number per silique in Brassica napus L. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2021; 134:2517-2530. [PMID: 33895853 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-021-03839-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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A major QTL controlling ovule abortion and SN was fine-mapped to a 80.1-kb region on A8 in rapeseed, and BnaA08g07940D and BnaA08g07950D are the most likely candidate genes. The seed number per silique (SN), an important yield determining trait of rapeseed, is the final consequence of a complex developmental process including ovule initiation and the subsequent ovule/seed development. To explore the genetic mechanism regulating the natural variation of SN and its related components, quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping was conducted using a doubled haploid (DH) population derived from the cross between C4-146 and C4-58B, which showed significant differences in SN and aborted ovule number (AON), but no obvious differences in ovule number (ON). QTL analysis identified 19 consensus QTLs for six SN-related traits across three environments. A novel QTL on chromosome A8, un.A8, which associates with multiple traits, except for ON, was stably detected across the three environments. This QTL explained more than 50% of the SN, AON and percentage of aborted ovules (PAO) variations as well as a moderate contribution on silique length (SL) and thousand seed weight (TSW). The C4-146 allele at the locus increases SN and SL but decreases AON, PAO and TSW. Further fine mapping narrowed down this locus into an 80.1-kb interval flanked by markers BM1668 and BM1672, and six predicted genes were annotated in the delimited region. Expression analyses and DNA sequencing showed that two homologs of Arabidopsis photosystem I subunit F (BnaA08g07940D) and zinc transporter 10 precursor (BnaA08g07950D) were the most promising candidate genes underlying this locus. These results provide a solid basis for cloning un.A8 to reduce the ovule abortion and increase SN in the yield improvement of rapeseed.
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- Yangmiao Jiao
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China.
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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Chai L, Zhang J, Li H, Zheng B, Jiang J, Cui C, Jiang L. Investigation for a multi-silique trait in Brassica napus by alternative splicing analysis. PeerJ 2020; 8:e10135. [PMID: 33083151 PMCID: PMC7548069 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2019] [Accepted: 09/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Background Flower and fruit development are vital stages of the angiosperm lifecycle. We previously investigated the multi-silique trait in the rapeseed (Brassica napus) line zws-ms on a genomic and transcriptomic level, leading to the identification of two genomic regions and several candidate genes associated with this trait. However, some events on the transcriptome level, like alternative splicing, were poorly understood. Methods Plants from zws-ms and its near-isogenic line (NIL) zws-217 were both grown in Xindu with normal conditions and a colder area Ma'erkang. Buds from the two lines were sampled and RNA was isolated to perform the transcriptomic sequencing. The numbers and types of alternative splicing (AS) events from the two lines were counted and classified. Genes with AS events and expressed differentially between the two lines, as well as genes with AS events which occurred in only one line were emphasized. Their annotations were further studied. Results From the plants in Xindu District, an average of 205,496 AS events, which could be sorted into five AS types, were identified. zws-ms and zws-217 shared highly similar ratios of each AS type: The alternative 5' and 3' splice site types were the most common, while the exon skipping type was observed least often. Eleven differentially expressed AS genes were identified, of which four were upregulated and seven were downregulated in zws-ms. Their annotations implied that five of these genes were directly associated with the multi-silique trait. While samples from colder area Ma'erkang generated generally reduced number of each type of AS events except for Intron Retention; but the number of differentially expressed AS genes increased significantly. Further analysis found that among the 11 differentially expressed AS genes from Xindu, three of them maintained the same expression models, while the other eight genes did not show significant difference between the two lines in expression level. Additionally, the 205 line-specific expressed AS genes were analyzed, of which 187 could be annotated, and two were considered to be important. Discussion This study provides new insights into the molecular mechanism of the agronomically important multi-silique trait in rapeseed on the transcriptome level and screens out some environment-responding candidate genes.
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- Liang Chai
- Crop Research Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Crop Research Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Crop Research Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Crop Research Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Crop Research Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Crop Research Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Crop Research Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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Global Landscapes of the Na+/H+ Antiporter (NHX) Family Members Uncover their Potential Roles in Regulating the Rapeseed Resistance to Salt Stress. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21103429. [PMID: 32408717 PMCID: PMC7279160 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21103429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Revised: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Soil salinity is a main abiotic stress in agriculture worldwide. The Na+/H+ antiporters (NHXs) play pivotal roles in intracellular Na+ excretion and vacuolar Na+ compartmentalization, which are important for plant salt stress resistance (SSR). However, few systematic analyses of NHXs has been reported in allotetraploid rapeseed so far. Here, a total of 18 full-length NHX homologs, representing seven subgroups (NHX1-NHX8 without NHX5), were identified in the rapeseed genome (AnAnCnCn). Number variations of BnaNHXs might indicate their significantly differential roles in the regulation of rapeseed SSR. BnaNHXs were phylogenetically divided into three evolutionary clades, and the members in the same subgroups had similar physiochemical characteristics, gene/protein structures, and conserved Na+ transport motifs. Darwin´s evolutionary pressure analysis suggested that BnaNHXs suffered from strong purifying selection. The cis-element analysis revealed the differential transcriptional regulation of NHXs between the model Arabidopsis and B. napus. Differential expression of BnaNHXs under salt stress, different nitrogen forms (ammonium and nitrate), and low phosphate indicated their potential involvement in the regulation of rapeseed SSR. Global landscapes of BnaNHXs will give an integrated understanding of their family evolution and molecular features, which will provide elite gene resources for the genetic improvement of plant SSR through regulating the NHX-mediated Na+ transport.
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Hussain Q, Shi J, Scheben A, Zhan J, Wang X, Liu G, Yan G, King GJ, Edwards D, Wang H. Genetic and signalling pathways of dry fruit size: targets for genome editing-based crop improvement. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2020; 18:1124-1140. [PMID: 31850661 PMCID: PMC7152616 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2018] [Revised: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 12/08/2019] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Fruit is seed-bearing structures specific to angiosperm that form from the gynoecium after flowering. Fruit size is an important fitness character for plant evolution and an agronomical trait for crop domestication/improvement. Despite the functional and economic importance of fruit size, the underlying genes and mechanisms are poorly understood, especially for dry fruit types. Improving our understanding of the genomic basis for fruit size opens the potential to apply gene-editing technology such as CRISPR/Cas to modulate fruit size in a range of species. This review examines the genes involved in the regulation of fruit size and identifies their genetic/signalling pathways, including the phytohormones, transcription and elongation factors, ubiquitin-proteasome and microRNA pathways, G-protein and receptor kinases signalling, arabinogalactan and RNA-binding proteins. Interestingly, different plant taxa have conserved functions for various fruit size regulators, suggesting that common genome edits across species may have similar outcomes. Many fruit size regulators identified to date are pleiotropic and affect other organs such as seeds, flowers and leaves, indicating a coordinated regulation. The relationships between fruit size and fruit number/seed number per fruit/seed size, as well as future research questions, are also discussed.
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- Quaid Hussain
- Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesKey Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil CropsMinistry of AgricultureWuhanChina
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- Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesKey Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil CropsMinistry of AgricultureWuhanChina
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- School of Biological Sciences and Institute of AgricultureThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWAAustralia
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- Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesKey Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil CropsMinistry of AgricultureWuhanChina
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- Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesKey Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil CropsMinistry of AgricultureWuhanChina
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- Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesKey Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil CropsMinistry of AgricultureWuhanChina
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- UWA School of Agriculture and EnvironmentThe UWA Institute of AgricultureThe University of Western AustraliaCrawleyWAAustralia
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- Southern Cross Plant ScienceSouthern Cross UniversityLismoreNSWAustralia
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- School of Biological Sciences and Institute of AgricultureThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWAAustralia
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- Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesKey Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil CropsMinistry of AgricultureWuhanChina
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Zhou T, Yue CP, Huang JY, Cui JQ, Liu Y, Wang WM, Tian C, Hua YP. Genome-wide identification of the amino acid permease genes and molecular characterization of their transcriptional responses to various nutrient stresses in allotetraploid rapeseed. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2020; 20:151. [PMID: 32268885 PMCID: PMC7140331 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-020-02367-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2020] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Nitrogen (N), referred to as a "life element", is a macronutrient essential for optimal plant growth and yield production. Amino acid (AA) permease (AAP) genes play pivotal roles in root import, long-distance translocation, remobilization of organic amide-N from source organs to sinks, and other environmental stress responses. However, few systematic analyses of AAPs have been reported in Brassica napus so far. RESULTS In this study, we identified a total of 34 full-length AAP genes representing eight subgroups (AAP1-8) from the allotetraploid rapeseed genome (AnAnCnCn, 2n = 4x = 38). Great differences in the homolog number among the BnaAAP subgroups might indicate their significant differential roles in the growth and development of rapeseed plants. The BnaAAPs were phylogenetically divided into three evolutionary clades, and the members in the same subgroups had similar physiochemical characteristics, gene/protein structures, and conserved AA transport motifs. Darwin's evolutionary analysis suggested that BnaAAPs were subjected to strong purifying selection pressure. Cis-element analysis showed potential differential transcriptional regulation of AAPs between the model Arabidopsis and B. napus. Differential expression of BnaAAPs under nitrate limitation, ammonium excess, phosphate shortage, boron deficiency, cadmium toxicity, and salt stress conditions indicated their potential involvement in diverse nutrient stress responses. CONCLUSIONS The genome-wide identification of BnaAAPs will provide a comprehensive insight into their family evolution and AAP-mediated AA transport under diverse abiotic stresses. The molecular characterization of core AAPs can provide elite gene resources and contribute to the genetic improvement of crop stress resistance through the modulation of AA transport.
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- Ting Zhou
- School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450000 China
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- School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450000 China
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- School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450000 China
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- School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450000 China
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- School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450000 China
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- School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450000 China
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- Sinochem Modern Agricultural Platform, Changchun, 130000 China
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- School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450000 China
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Zhu Y, Ye J, Zhan J, Zheng X, Zhang J, Shi J, Wang X, Liu G, Wang H. Validation and Characterization of a Seed Number Per Silique Quantitative Trait Locus qSN.A7 in Rapeseed ( Brassica napus L.). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:68. [PMID: 32153604 PMCID: PMC7047150 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Accepted: 01/17/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Seed number is a key character/trait tightly related to the plant fitness/evolution and crop domestication/improvement. The seed number per silique (SNPS) shows a huge variation from several to more than 30, however the underlying regulatory mechanisms are poorly known, which has hindered its improvement. To answer this question, several representative lines with extreme SNPS were previously subjected to systematic genetic and cytological analyses. The results showed that the natural variation of seed number per silique is mainly controlled by maternal and embryonic genotype, which are co-determined by ovule number per ovary, fertile ovule ratio, ovule fertilization rate, and fertilized ovule development rate. More importantly, we also mapped two repeatable quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for SNPS using the F2:3 population derived from Zhongshuang11 and No. 73290, of which the major QTL qSN.A6 has been fine-mapped. In the current study, the near-isogenic lines (NILs) of qSN.A7 were successfully developed by the successive backcross of F1 with Zhongshuang11. First, the effect of qSN.A7 was validated by evaluating the SNPS of two types of homozygous NILs from BC3F2 population, which showed a significant difference of 2.23 on average. Then, qSN.A7 was successfully fine-mapped from the original 4.237 to 1.389 Mb, using a BC4F2 segregating population of 2,551 individuals. To further clarify the regulatory mechanism of qSN.A7, the two types of homologous NILs were subjected to genetic and cytological analyses. The results showed that the difference in SNPS between the two homologous NILs was determined by the embryonic genotypic effect. Highly accordant with this, no significant difference was observed in ovule number per ovary, ovule fertility, fertilization rate, and pollen fertility between the two homologous NILs. Therefore, the regulatory mechanism of qSN.A7 is completely different from the cloned qSS.C9 and qSN.A6. These results will advance the understanding of SNPS and facilitate gene cloning and molecular breeding in Brassica napus.
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministryof Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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Song JM, Guan Z, Hu J, Guo C, Yang Z, Wang S, Liu D, Wang B, Lu S, Zhou R, Xie WZ, Cheng Y, Zhang Y, Liu K, Yang QY, Chen LL, Guo L. Eight high-quality genomes reveal pan-genome architecture and ecotype differentiation of Brassica napus. NATURE PLANTS 2020; 6:34-45. [PMID: 31932676 PMCID: PMC6965005 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-019-0577-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 346] [Impact Index Per Article: 86.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2019] [Accepted: 11/29/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Rapeseed (Brassica napus) is the second most important oilseed crop in the world but the genetic diversity underlying its massive phenotypic variations remains largely unexplored. Here, we report the sequencing, de novo assembly and annotation of eight B. napus accessions. Using pan-genome comparative analysis, millions of small variations and 77.2-149.6 megabase presence and absence variations (PAVs) were identified. More than 9.4% of the genes contained large-effect mutations or structural variations. PAV-based genome-wide association study (PAV-GWAS) directly identified causal structural variations for silique length, seed weight and flowering time in a nested association mapping population with ZS11 (reference line) as the donor, which were not detected by single-nucleotide polymorphisms-based GWAS (SNP-GWAS), demonstrating that PAV-GWAS was complementary to SNP-GWAS in identifying associations to traits. Further analysis showed that PAVs in three FLOWERING LOCUS C genes were closely related to flowering time and ecotype differentiation. This study provides resources to support a better understanding of the genome architecture and acceleration of the genetic improvement of B. napus.
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- Jia-Ming Song
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
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Zhang S, Hu X, Miao H, Chu Y, Cui F, Yang W, Wang C, Shen Y, Xu T, Zhao L, Zhang J, Chen J. QTL identification for seed weight and size based on a high-density SLAF-seq genetic map in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.). BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2019; 19:537. [PMID: 31795931 PMCID: PMC6892246 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-019-2164-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND The cultivated peanut is an important oil and cash crop grown worldwide. To meet the growing demand for peanut production each year, genetic studies and enhanced selection efficiency are essential, including linkage mapping, genome-wide association study, bulked-segregant analysis and marker-assisted selection. Specific locus amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq) is a powerful tool for high density genetic map (HDGM) construction and quantitative trait loci (QTLs) mapping. In this study, a HDGM was constructed using SLAF-seq leading to identification of QTL for seed weight and size in peanut. RESULTS A recombinant inbred line (RIL) population was advanced from a cross between a cultivar 'Huayu36' and a germplasm line '6-13' with contrasting seed weight, size and shape. Based on the cultivated peanut genome, a HDGM was constructed with 3866 loci consisting of SLAF-seq and simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers distributed on 20 linkage groups (LGs) covering a total map distance of 1266.87 cM. Phenotypic data of four seed related traits were obtained in four environments, which mostly displayed normal distribution with varied levels of correlation. A total of 27 QTLs for 100 seed weight (100SW), seed length (SL), seed width (SW) and length to width ratio (L/W) were identified on 8 chromosomes, with LOD values of 3.16-31.55 and explaining phenotypic variance (PVE) from 0.74 to 83.23%. Two stable QTL regions were identified on chromosomes 2 and 16, and gene content within these regions provided valuable information for further functional analysis of yield component traits. CONCLUSIONS This study represents a new HDGM based on the cultivated peanut genome using SLAF-seq and SSRs. QTL mapping of four seed related traits revealed two stable QTL regions on chromosomes 2 and 16, which not only facilitate fine mapping and cloning these genes, but also provide opportunity for molecular breeding of new peanut cultivars with improved seed weight and size.
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- Shengzhong Zhang
- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Qingdao, 266100, People's Republic of China
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Qingdao, 266100, People's Republic of China
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Qingdao, 266100, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Horticulture, University of Georgia Tifton Campus, Tifton, GA, 31793, USA
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Qingdao, 266100, People's Republic of China
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Qingdao, 266100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, 210014, People's Republic of China
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Qingdao, 266100, People's Republic of China
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- Qingdao Agricultural Radio and Television School, Qingdao, 266071, People's Republic of China
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Qingdao, 266100, People's Republic of China
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Qingdao, 266100, People's Republic of China.
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Zhao W, Chao H, Zhang L, Ta N, Zhao Y, Li B, Zhang K, Guan Z, Hou D, Chen K, Li H, Zhang L, Wang H, Li M. Integration of QTL Mapping and Gene Fishing Techniques to Dissect the Multi-Main Stem Trait in Rapeseed ( Brassica napus L.). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:1152. [PMID: 31616451 PMCID: PMC6764107 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2019] [Accepted: 08/23/2019] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Rapeseed is one of the most important oilseed crops in the world. Improving the production of rapeseed is beneficial to relieve the shortage of edible vegetable oil. As the organ of support and transport, the main stem of rapeseed controls the plant architecture, transports the water and nutrients, and determines the number of inflorescence. Increasing the number of main stems would be helpful for the yield improvement in Brassica napus (B. napus). This attractive multi-main stem (MMS) trait was observed in the KN DH population. We investigated not only the frequency of MMS traits but also dissected the genetic basis with QTL mapping analysis and Gene-Fishing technique. A total of 43 QTLs were identified for MMS based on high-density linkage map, which explained 2.95-14.9% of the phenotypic variation, among which two environmental stable QTLs (cqMMS.A3-2 and cqMMS.C3-5) were identified in winter and semi-winter environments. Epistatic interaction analysis indicated cqMMS.C3-5 was an important loci for MMS. According to the functional annotation, 159 candidate genes within QTL confidence intervals, corresponding to 148 Arabidopsis thaliana (A. thaliana) homologous genes, were identified, which regulated lateral bud development and tiller of stem, such as shoot meristemless (STM), WUSCHEL-regulated-related genes, cytokinin response factors (CRF5), cytokinin oxidase (CKX4), gibberellin-regulated (RDK1), auxin-regulated gene (ARL, IAR4), and auxin-mediated signaling gene (STV1). Based on Gene-Fishing analysis between the natural plants and the double-main stem (DMS) plant, 31 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were also obtained, which were related to differentiation and formation of lateral buds, biotic stimulus, defense response, drought and salt-stress responses, as well as cold-response functional genes. In addition, by combining the candidate genes in QTL regions with the DEGs that were obtained by Gene-Fishing technique, six common candidate genes (RPT2A, HLR, CRK, LRR-RLK, AGL79, and TCTP) were identified, which might probably be related to the formation of MMS phenotype. The present results not only would give a new insight into the genetic basis underlying the regulation of MMS but also would provide clues for plant architecture breeding in rapeseed.
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- Weiguo Zhao
- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
- Hybrid Rape Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Rapeseed Branch of National Centre for Oil Crops Genetic Improvement, Yangling, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Hybrid Rape Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Rapeseed Branch of National Centre for Oil Crops Genetic Improvement, Yangling, China
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- Hybrid Rape Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Rapeseed Branch of National Centre for Oil Crops Genetic Improvement, Yangling, China
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- Hybrid Rape Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Rapeseed Branch of National Centre for Oil Crops Genetic Improvement, Yangling, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Hybrid Rape Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Rapeseed Branch of National Centre for Oil Crops Genetic Improvement, Yangling, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Hybrid Rape Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Rapeseed Branch of National Centre for Oil Crops Genetic Improvement, Yangling, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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Wilhelmsson PKI, Chandler JO, Fernandez-Pozo N, Graeber K, Ullrich KK, Arshad W, Khan S, Hofberger JA, Buchta K, Edger PP, Pires JC, Schranz ME, Leubner-Metzger G, Rensing SA. Usability of reference-free transcriptome assemblies for detection of differential expression: a case study on Aethionema arabicum dimorphic seeds. BMC Genomics 2019; 20:95. [PMID: 30700268 PMCID: PMC6354389 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-019-5452-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2018] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Background RNA-sequencing analysis is increasingly utilized to study gene expression in non-model organisms without sequenced genomes. Aethionema arabicum (Brassicaceae) exhibits seed dimorphism as a bet-hedging strategy – producing both a less dormant mucilaginous (M+) seed morph and a more dormant non-mucilaginous (NM) seed morph. Here, we compared de novo and reference-genome based transcriptome assemblies to investigate Ae. arabicum seed dimorphism and to evaluate the reference-free versus -dependent approach for identifying differentially expressed genes (DEGs). Results A de novo transcriptome assembly was generated using sequences from M+ and NM Ae. arabicum dry seed morphs. The transcripts of the de novo assembly contained 63.1% complete Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCO) compared to 90.9% for the transcripts of the reference genome. DEG detection used the strict consensus of three methods (DESeq2, edgeR and NOISeq). Only 37% of 1533 differentially expressed de novo assembled transcripts paired with 1876 genome-derived DEGs. Gene Ontology (GO) terms distinguished the seed morphs: the terms translation and nucleosome assembly were overrepresented in DEGs higher in abundance in M+ dry seeds, whereas terms related to mRNA processing and transcription were overrepresented in DEGs higher in abundance in NM dry seeds. DEGs amongst these GO terms included ribosomal proteins and histones (higher in M+), RNA polymerase II subunits and related transcription and elongation factors (higher in NM). Expression of the inferred DEGs and other genes associated with seed maturation (e.g. those encoding late embryogenesis abundant proteins and transcription factors regulating seed development and maturation such as ABI3, FUS3, LEC1 and WRI1 homologs) were put in context with Arabidopsis thaliana seed maturation and indicated that M+ seeds may desiccate and mature faster than NM. The 1901 transcriptomic DEG set GO-terms had almost 90% overlap with the 2191 genome-derived DEG GO-terms. Conclusions Whilst there was only modest overlap of DEGs identified in reference-free versus -dependent approaches, the resulting GO analysis was concordant in both approaches. The identified differences in dry seed transcriptomes suggest mechanisms underpinning previously identified contrasts between morphology and germination behaviour of M+ and NM seeds. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12864-019-5452-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Per K I Wilhelmsson
- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
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- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
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- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, 35043, Marburg, Germany.,Present Address: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann-Straße 2, 24306, Ploen, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
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- Biosystematics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, 6708 PB, The Netherlands
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- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48864, USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Biosystematics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, 6708 PB, The Netherlands
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK. .,Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Palacký University and Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 78371, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, 35043, Marburg, Germany. .,BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
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Wilhelmsson PKI, Chandler JO, Fernandez-Pozo N, Graeber K, Ullrich KK, Arshad W, Khan S, Hofberger JA, Buchta K, Edger PP, Pires JC, Schranz ME, Leubner-Metzger G, Rensing SA. Usability of reference-free transcriptome assemblies for detection of differential expression: a case study on Aethionema arabicum dimorphic seeds. BMC Genomics 2019. [PMID: 30700268 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-019-5452-5454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND RNA-sequencing analysis is increasingly utilized to study gene expression in non-model organisms without sequenced genomes. Aethionema arabicum (Brassicaceae) exhibits seed dimorphism as a bet-hedging strategy - producing both a less dormant mucilaginous (M+) seed morph and a more dormant non-mucilaginous (NM) seed morph. Here, we compared de novo and reference-genome based transcriptome assemblies to investigate Ae. arabicum seed dimorphism and to evaluate the reference-free versus -dependent approach for identifying differentially expressed genes (DEGs). RESULTS A de novo transcriptome assembly was generated using sequences from M+ and NM Ae. arabicum dry seed morphs. The transcripts of the de novo assembly contained 63.1% complete Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCO) compared to 90.9% for the transcripts of the reference genome. DEG detection used the strict consensus of three methods (DESeq2, edgeR and NOISeq). Only 37% of 1533 differentially expressed de novo assembled transcripts paired with 1876 genome-derived DEGs. Gene Ontology (GO) terms distinguished the seed morphs: the terms translation and nucleosome assembly were overrepresented in DEGs higher in abundance in M+ dry seeds, whereas terms related to mRNA processing and transcription were overrepresented in DEGs higher in abundance in NM dry seeds. DEGs amongst these GO terms included ribosomal proteins and histones (higher in M+), RNA polymerase II subunits and related transcription and elongation factors (higher in NM). Expression of the inferred DEGs and other genes associated with seed maturation (e.g. those encoding late embryogenesis abundant proteins and transcription factors regulating seed development and maturation such as ABI3, FUS3, LEC1 and WRI1 homologs) were put in context with Arabidopsis thaliana seed maturation and indicated that M+ seeds may desiccate and mature faster than NM. The 1901 transcriptomic DEG set GO-terms had almost 90% overlap with the 2191 genome-derived DEG GO-terms. CONCLUSIONS Whilst there was only modest overlap of DEGs identified in reference-free versus -dependent approaches, the resulting GO analysis was concordant in both approaches. The identified differences in dry seed transcriptomes suggest mechanisms underpinning previously identified contrasts between morphology and germination behaviour of M+ and NM seeds.
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- Per K I Wilhelmsson
- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
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- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
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- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, 35043, Marburg, Germany
- Present Address: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann-Straße 2, 24306, Ploen, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
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- Biosystematics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, 6708 PB, The Netherlands
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- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48864, USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Biosystematics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, 6708 PB, The Netherlands
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK.
- Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Palacký University and Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 78371, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, 35043, Marburg, Germany.
- BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
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Capitao C, Shukla N, Wandrolova A, Mittelsten Scheid O, Riha K. Functional Characterization of SMG7 Paralogs in Arabidopsis thaliana. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1602. [PMID: 30459790 PMCID: PMC6232500 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2018] [Accepted: 10/17/2018] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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SMG7 proteins are evolutionary conserved across eukaryotes and primarily known for their function in nonsense mediated RNA decay (NMD). In contrast to other NMD factors, SMG7 proteins underwent independent expansions during evolution indicating their propensity to adopt novel functions. Here we characterized SMG7 and SMG7-like (SMG7L) paralogs in Arabidopsis thaliana. SMG7 retained its role in NMD and additionally appears to have acquired another function in meiosis. We inactivated SMG7 by CRISPR/Cas9 mutagenesis and showed that, in contrast to our previous report, SMG7 is not an essential gene in Arabidopsis. Furthermore, our data indicate that the N-terminal phosphoserine-binding domain is required for both NMD and meiosis. Phenotypic analysis of SMG7 and SMG7L double mutants did not indicate any functional redundancy between the two genes, suggesting neofunctionalization of SMG7L. Finally, protein sequence comparison together with a phenotyping of T-DNA insertion mutants identified several conserved regions specific for SMG7 that may underlie its role in NMD and meiosis. This information provides a framework for deciphering the non-canonical functions of SMG7-family proteins.
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- Claudio Capitao
- Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter, Vienna, Austria
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- Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
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- Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
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- Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter, Vienna, Austria
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- Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
- *Correspondence: Karel Riha,
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Yang Y, Wang Y, Zhan J, Shi J, Wang X, Liu G, Wang H. Genetic and Cytological Analyses of the Natural Variation of Seed Number per Pod in Rapeseed ( Brassica napus L.). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:1890. [PMID: 29163611 PMCID: PMC5676210 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2017] [Accepted: 10/18/2017] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Seed number is one of the key traits related to plant evolution/domestication and crop improvement/breeding. In rapeseed germplasm, the seed number per pod (SNPP) shows a very wide variation from several to nearly 30; however, the underlying causations/mechanisms for this variation are poorly known. In the current study, the genetic and cytological bases for the natural variation of SNPP in rapeseed was firstly and systematically investigated using the representative four high-SNPP and five low-SNPP lines. The results of self- or cross-pollination experiment between the high- and low-SNPP lines showed that the natural variation of SNPP was mainly controlled by maternal effect (mean = 0.79), followed by paternal effect (mean = 0.21). Analysis of the data using diploid seed embryo-cytoplasmic-maternal model further showed that the maternal genotype, embryo, and cytoplasm effects, respectively, explained 47.6, 35.2, and 7.5% of the genetic variance. In addition, the analysis of combining ability showed that for the SNPP of hybrid F1 was mainly determined by the general combining ability of parents (63.0%), followed by special combining ability of parental combination (37.0%). More importantly, the cytological observation showed that the SNPP difference between the high- and low-SNPP lines was attributable to the accumulative differences in its components. Of which, the number of ovules, the proportion of fertile ovules, the proportion of fertile ovules to be fertilized, and the proportion of fertilized ovules to develop into seeds accounted for 30.7, 18.2, 7.1, and 43.9%, respectively. The accordant results of both genetic and cytological analyses provide solid evidences and systematic insights to further understand the mechanisms underlying the natural variation of SNPP, which will facilitate the development of high-yield cultivars in rapeseed.
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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Liu Z, Dong F, Wang X, Wang T, Su R, Hong D, Yang G. A pentatricopeptide repeat protein restores nap cytoplasmic male sterility in Brassica napus. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2017; 68:4115-4123. [PMID: 28922764 PMCID: PMC5853434 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erx239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2017] [Accepted: 06/19/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Two forms of male-sterile cytoplasm, designated nap and pol, are found in the oilseed rape species, Brassica napus. The nap cytoplasm is observed in most B. napus varieties, and it confers male sterility on a limited number of cultivars that lack the corresponding restorer gene, Rfn. In the present study, using linkage analysis in combination with 5652 BC1 progeny derived from a cross between a nap cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) line 181A and a restorer line H5, we delimited the Rfn gene to a 10.5 kb region on chromosome A09, which contained three putative ORFs. Complementation by transformation rescue revealed that the introduction of ORF2, which encodes a pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) protein, resulted in the recovery of fertility of nap CMS plants. Expression analysis suggested that the Rfn was highly expressed in flower buds and it was preferentially expressed in the tapetum and meiocytes during anther development. Further RNA gel blots and immunodetection suggested that the Rfn gene may play a complicated role in restoring the nap CMS. Our work laid the foundation for dissecting the molecular basis of CMS fertility restoration and the nuclear-mitochondrial interactions in CMS/Rf systems.
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- Zhi Liu
- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
- National Research Center of Rapeseed Engineering and Technology, National Rapeseed Genetic Improvement Center (Wuhan Branch), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
- National Research Center of Rapeseed Engineering and Technology, National Rapeseed Genetic Improvement Center (Wuhan Branch), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
- National Research Center of Rapeseed Engineering and Technology, National Rapeseed Genetic Improvement Center (Wuhan Branch), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
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- National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
- National Research Center of Rapeseed Engineering and Technology, National Rapeseed Genetic Improvement Center (Wuhan Branch), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
- Correspondence:
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Xu P, Cao S, Hu K, Wang X, Huang W, Wang G, Lv Z, Liu Z, Wen J, Yi B, Ma C, Tu J, Fu T, Shen J. Trilocular phenotype in Brassica juncea L. resulted from interruption of CLAVATA1 gene homologue (BjMc1) transcription. Sci Rep 2017; 7:3498. [PMID: 28615665 PMCID: PMC5471281 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-03755-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2017] [Accepted: 05/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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As a desirable agricultural trait, multilocular trait of rapeseed (Brassica rapa; Brassica napus; Brassica juncea), always represents higher yield per plant compared with bilocular plants. We previously isolated a trilocular gene locus, Bjmc1, and identified a set of molecular markers linked to the trilocular gene. With a map-based cloning, we identified that the BjMc1 was located in B genome of Brassica juncea, and it was a CLAVATA1 (CLV1) gene homologue. The insertion of a copia-LTR retrotransposable element 1 (RTE1) into the coding region of BjMc1 interrupted its transcription in rapeseed, leading to the trilocular phenotype. Phylogenetic analysis showed that Mc1 genes were conserved and widespread in land plants. Two amino acid sites had undergone positive selection in the ancestor of Mc1 genes, and then purifying selection was the dominant force after the divergence of dicots and monocots from their common ancestor in the evolutionary process, indicating that Mc1 genes are conserved in modern land plants. Our results provided new insights in molecular regulatory mechanism of multilocularity in rapeseed, and better understanding of molecular mechanism in crop yield improvement.
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- Ping Xu
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Engineering Research Center of Rapeseed, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Engineering Research Center of Rapeseed, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Engineering Research Center of Rapeseed, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Engineering Research Center of Rapeseed, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Engineering Research Center of Rapeseed, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Engineering Research Center of Rapeseed, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Engineering Research Center of Rapeseed, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Oil Crops Research Institute, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, 410128, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Engineering Research Center of Rapeseed, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Engineering Research Center of Rapeseed, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Engineering Research Center of Rapeseed, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Engineering Research Center of Rapeseed, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Engineering Research Center of Rapeseed, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Engineering Research Center of Rapeseed, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China.
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Chen J, Wang B, Zhang Y, Yue X, Li Z, Liu K. High-density ddRAD linkage and yield-related QTL mapping delimits a chromosomal region responsible for oil content in rapeseed ( Brassica napus L.). BREEDING SCIENCE 2017; 67:296-306. [PMID: 28744183 PMCID: PMC5515304 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.16116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2016] [Accepted: 04/06/2017] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is one of the most important oil crops almost all over the world. Seed-related traits, including oil content (OC), silique length (SL), seeds per silique (SS), and seed weight (SW), are primary targets for oil yield improvement. To dissect the genetic basis of these traits, 192 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) were derived from two parents with distinct oil content and silique length. High-density linkage map with a total length of 1610.4 cM were constructed using 1,329 double-digestion restriction site associated DNA (ddRAD) markers, 107 insertion/deletions (INDELs), and 90 well-distributed simple sequence repeats (SSRs) markers. A total of 37 consensus quantitative trait loci (QTLs) were detected for the four traits, with individual QTL explained 3.1-12.8% of the phenotypic variations. Interestingly, one OC consensus QTL (cqOCA10b) on chromosome A10 was consistently detected in all three environments, and explained 9.8% to 12.8% of the OC variation. The locus was further delimited into an approximately 614 kb genomic region, in which the flanking markers could be further evaluated for marker-assisted selection in rapeseed OC improvement and the candidate genes targeted for map-based cloning and genetic manipulation.
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Zhu L, Yang Z, Zeng X, Gao J, Liu J, Yi B, Ma C, Shen J, Tu J, Fu T, Wen J. Heme oxygenase 1 defects lead to reduced chlorophyll in Brassica napus. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 93:579-592. [PMID: 28108964 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-017-0583-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2016] [Accepted: 01/09/2017] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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We previously described a Brassica napus chlorophyll-deficient mutant (ygl) with yellow-green seedling leaves and mapped the related gene, BnaC.YGL, to a 0.35 cM region. However, the molecular mechanisms involved in this chlorophyll defect are still unknown. In this study, the BnaC07.HO1 gene (equivalent to BnaC.YGL) was isolated by the candidate gene approach, and its function was confirmed by genetic complementation. Comparative sequencing analysis suggested that BnaC07.HO1 was lost in the mutant, while a long noncoding-RNA was inserted into the promoter of the homologous gene BnaA07.HO1. This insert was widely present in B. napus cultivars and down-regulated BnaA07.HO1 expression. BnaC07.HO1 was highly expressed in the seedling leaves and encoded heme oxygenase 1, which was localized in the chloroplast. Biochemical analysis showed that BnaC07.HO1 can catalyze heme conversion to form biliverdin IXα. RNA-seq analysis revealed that the loss of BnaC07.HO1 impaired tetrapyrrole metabolism, especially chlorophyll biosynthesis. According, the levels of chlorophyll intermediates were reduced in the ygl mutant. In addition, gene expression in multiple pathways was affected in ygl. These findings provide molecular evidences for the basis of the yellow-green leaf phenotype and further insights into the crucial role of HO1 in B. napus.
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- Lixia Zhu
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Sub-center of Rapeseed Improvement in Wuhan, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Shandong Key Laboratory of Greenhouse Vegetable Biology, Shandong Branch of National Vegetable Improvement Center, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, 250100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops Oil Crops Research the Chinese Institute of Academy of Agricultural Sciences,, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan, 430062, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Sub-center of Rapeseed Improvement in Wuhan, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Sub-center of Rapeseed Improvement in Wuhan, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Sub-center of Rapeseed Improvement in Wuhan, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Sub-center of Rapeseed Improvement in Wuhan, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Sub-center of Rapeseed Improvement in Wuhan, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Sub-center of Rapeseed Improvement in Wuhan, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Sub-center of Rapeseed Improvement in Wuhan, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Sub-center of Rapeseed Improvement in Wuhan, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China.
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Yang Y, Shen Y, Li S, Ge X, Li Z. High Density Linkage Map Construction and QTL Detection for Three Silique-Related Traits in Orychophragmus violaceus Derived Brassica napus Population. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:1512. [PMID: 28932230 PMCID: PMC5592274 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2017] [Accepted: 08/16/2017] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Seeds per silique (SS), seed weight (SW), and silique length (SL) are important determinant traits of seed yield potential in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.), and are controlled by naturally occurring quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Mapping QTLs to narrow chromosomal regions provides an effective means of characterizing the genetic basis of these complex traits. Orychophragmus violaceus is a crucifer with long siliques, many SS, and heavy seeds. A novel B. napus introgression line with many SS was previously selected from multiple crosses (B. rapa ssp. chinesis × O. violaceus) × B. napus. In present study, a doubled haploid (DH) population with 167 lines was established from a cross between the introgression line and a line with far fewer SS, in order to detect QTLs for silique-related traits. By screening with a Brassica 60K single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array, a high-density linkage map consisting of 1,153 bins and spanning a cumulative length of 2,209.1 cM was constructed, using 12,602 high-quality polymorphic SNPs in the DH population. The average recombination bin densities of the A and C subgenomes were 1.7 and 2.4 cM, respectively. 45 QTLs were identified for the three traits in all, which explained 4.0-34.4% of the total phenotypic variation; 20 of them were integrated into three unique QTLs by meta-analysis. These unique QTLs revealed a significant positive correlation between SS and SL and a significant negative correlation between SW and SS, and were mapped onto the linkage groups A05, C08, and C09. A trait-by-trait meta-analysis revealed eight, four, and seven consensus QTLs for SS, SW, and SL, respectively, and five major QTLs (cqSS.A09b, cqSS.C09, cqSW.A05, cqSW.C09, and cqSL.C09) were identified. Five, three, and four QTLs for SS, SW, and SL, respectively, might be novel QTLs because of the existence of alien genetic loci for these traits in the alien introgression. Thirty-eight candidate genes underlying nine QTLs for silique-related traits were identified.
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Chen Y, Ren X, Zheng Y, Zhou X, Huang L, Yan L, Jiao Y, Chen W, Huang S, Wan L, Lei Y, Liao B, Huai D, Wei W, Jiang H. Genetic mapping of yield traits using RIL population derived from Fuchuan Dahuasheng and ICG6375 of peanut ( Arachis hypogaea L.). MOLECULAR BREEDING : NEW STRATEGIES IN PLANT IMPROVEMENT 2017; 37:17. [PMID: 28216998 PMCID: PMC5285419 DOI: 10.1007/s11032-016-0587-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2016] [Accepted: 11/01/2016] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The genetic architecture determinants of yield traits in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) are poorly understood. In the present study, an effort was made to map quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for yield traits using recombinant inbred lines (RIL). A genetic linkage map was constructed containing 609 loci, covering a total of 1557.48 cM with an average distance of 2.56 cM between adjacent markers. The present map exhibited good collinearity with the physical map of diploid species of Arachis. Ninety-two repeatable QTLs were identified for 11 traits including height of main stem, total branching number, and nine pod- and seed-related traits. Of the 92 QTLs, 15 QTLs were expressed across three environments and 65 QTLs were newly identified. Twelve QTLs for the height of main stem and the pod- and seed-related traits explaining more than 10 % of phenotypic variation showed a great potential for marker-assisted selection in improving these traits. The trait-by-trait meta-analysis revealed 33 consensus QTLs. The consensus QTLs and other QTLs were further integrated into 29 pleiotropic unique QTLs with the confidence interval of 1.86 cM on average. The significant co-localization of QTLs was consistent with the significant phenotypic correlations among these traits. The complexity of the genetic architecture of yield traits was demonstrated. The present QTLs for pod- and seed-related traits could be the most fundamental genetic factors contributing to the yield traits in peanut. The results provide a good foundation for fine mapping, cloning and designing molecular breeding of favorable genes in peanut.
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- Yuning Chen
- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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- Oil Crop Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agricultural, Wuhan, 430062 People’s Republic of China
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Xin Q, Shen Y, Li X, Lu W, Wang X, Han X, Dong F, Wan L, Yang G, Hong D, Cheng Z. MS5 Mediates Early Meiotic Progression and Its Natural Variants May Have Applications for Hybrid Production in Brassica napus. THE PLANT CELL 2016; 28:1263-78. [PMID: 27194707 PMCID: PMC4944402 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.15.01018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2015] [Accepted: 05/16/2016] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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During meiotic prophase I, chromatin undergoes dynamic changes to establish a structural basis for essential meiotic events. However, the mechanism that coordinates chromosome structure and meiotic progression remains poorly understood in plants. Here, we characterized a spontaneous sterile mutant MS5(b)MS5(b) in oilseed rape (Brassica napus) and found its meiotic chromosomes were arrested at leptotene. MS5 is preferentially expressed in reproductive organs and encodes a Brassica-specific protein carrying conserved coiled-coil and DUF626 domains with unknown function. MS5 is essential for pairing of homologs in meiosis, but not necessary for the initiation of DNA double-strand breaks. The distribution of the axis element-associated protein ASY1 occurs independently of MS5, but localization of the meiotic cohesion subunit SYN1 requires functional MS5. Furthermore, both the central element of the synaptonemal complex and the recombination element do not properly form in MS5(b)MS5(b) mutants. Our results demonstrate that MS5 participates in progression of meiosis during early prophase I and its allelic variants lead to differences in fertility, which may provide a promising strategy for pollination control for heterosis breeding.
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- Qiang Xin
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China College of Life Science, South-central University for Nationalities, Wuhan 430074, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Wang X, Chen L, Wang A, Wang H, Tian J, Zhao X, Chao H, Zhao Y, Zhao W, Xiang J, Gan J, Li M. Quantitative trait loci analysis and genome-wide comparison for silique related traits in Brassica napus. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 16:71. [PMID: 27000872 PMCID: PMC4802616 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-016-0759-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2015] [Accepted: 03/15/2016] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Yield of rapeseed is determined by three components: silique number, seed number per silique and thousand seed weight. Seed number per silique and thousand seed weight are influenced by silique length, seed density, silique breadth, silique thickness and silique volume. Some QTLs for silique traits have been reported in B. napus, however, no studies have focused on the six agronomic traits (seed number per silique, silique length, silique breadth, silique thickness, seed density and silique volume) simultaneously, and the genetic determinism of such complex traits have not been fully elucidated. RESULTS In this study, the six silique traits were evaluated using 348 lines of a doubled haploid population, the KN population. The results showed that 2, 4, 1, 1 and 2 QTLs explaining > 10 % of phenotypic variation were obtained for silique length, silique breadth, silique thickness, seed number per silique and silique volume, respectively. Notably, three major effect QTLs (cqSB-C6-1, cqSB-C6-2 and cqSV-C6-3) were identified in at least three environments, and 17 unique QTLs controlling at least two traits were obtained. A high-density consensus map containing 1225 markers was constructed for QTL comparison by combining the KN map with other five published maps. The comparative results revealed that 14, 13 and 11 QTLs for silique breadth, silique thickness and silique volume might be the potential new QTLs because few QTLs for these traits were reported in B. napus. In addition, potential new QTLs for silique length (11), seed number per silique (6) and seed density (5) were also identified. Twenty-five candidate genes underlying 27 QTLs for silique related traits were obtained. CONCLUSIONS This study constructed QTL analysis in B. napus, and obtained 60 consensus QTLs for six silique related traits. The potential new QTLs will enhance our understanding of the genetic control of silique traits, and the stable QTLs provided the targets for improving seed yield in future. These findings provided comprehensive insights into the genetic network affecting silique traits at QTL level in B. napus.
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- Xiaodong Wang
- />Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074 China
- />Provincial Key Laboratory of Agrobiology, Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, 210014 China
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- />Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074 China
- />Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for the Characteristic Resources Exploitation of Dabie Mountains, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, 438000 China
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- />Hybrid Rapeseed Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Rapeseed Branch of National Centre for Oil Crops Genetic Improvement, Yangling, 712100 China
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- />Hybrid Rapeseed Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Rapeseed Branch of National Centre for Oil Crops Genetic Improvement, Yangling, 712100 China
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- />Hybrid Rapeseed Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Rapeseed Branch of National Centre for Oil Crops Genetic Improvement, Yangling, 712100 China
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- />Hybrid Rapeseed Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Rapeseed Branch of National Centre for Oil Crops Genetic Improvement, Yangling, 712100 China
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- />Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074 China
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- />Hybrid Rapeseed Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Rapeseed Branch of National Centre for Oil Crops Genetic Improvement, Yangling, 712100 China
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- />Hybrid Rapeseed Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Rapeseed Branch of National Centre for Oil Crops Genetic Improvement, Yangling, 712100 China
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- />Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for the Characteristic Resources Exploitation of Dabie Mountains, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, 438000 China
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- />Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for the Characteristic Resources Exploitation of Dabie Mountains, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, 438000 China
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- />Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074 China
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