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Mou S, He W, Jiang H, Meng Q, Zhang T, Liu Z, Qiu A, He S. Transcription factor CaHDZ15 promotes pepper basal thermotolerance by activating HEAT SHOCK FACTORA6a. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2024; 195:812-831. [PMID: 38270532 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiae037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2023] [Revised: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 12/28/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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High temperature stress (HTS) is a serious threat to plant growth and development and to crop production in the context of global warming, and plant response to HTS is largely regulated at the transcriptional level by the actions of various transcription factors (TFs). However, whether and how homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) TFs are involved in thermotolerance are unclear. Herein, we functionally characterized a pepper (Capsicum annuum) HD-Zip I TF CaHDZ15. CaHDZ15 expression was upregulated by HTS and abscisic acid in basal thermotolerance via loss- and gain-of-function assays by virus-induced gene silencing in pepper and overexpression in Nicotiana benthamiana plants. CaHDZ15 acted positively in pepper basal thermotolerance by directly targeting and activating HEAT SHOCK FACTORA6a (HSFA6a), which further activated CaHSFA2. In addition, CaHDZ15 interacted with HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70-2 (CaHsp70-2) and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase1 (CaGAPC1), both of which positively affected pepper thermotolerance. CaHsp70-2 and CaGAPC1 promoted CaHDZ15 binding to the promoter of CaHSFA6a, thus enhancing its transcription. Furthermore, CaHDZ15 and CaGAPC1 were protected from 26S proteasome-mediated degradation by CaHsp70-2 via physical interaction. These results collectively indicate that CaHDZ15, modulated by the interacting partners CaGAPC1 and CaHsp70-2, promotes basal thermotolerance by directly activating the transcript of CaHSFA6a. Thus, a molecular linkage is established among CaHsp70-2, CaGAPC1, and CaHDZ15 to transcriptionally modulate CaHSFA6a in pepper thermotolerance.
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- Shaoliang Mou
- College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- National Education Minister, Key Laboratory of Plant Genetic Improvement and Comprehensive Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
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- College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- National Education Minister, Key Laboratory of Plant Genetic Improvement and Comprehensive Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
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- College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- National Education Minister, Key Laboratory of Plant Genetic Improvement and Comprehensive Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
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- College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- National Education Minister, Key Laboratory of Plant Genetic Improvement and Comprehensive Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
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- College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- National Education Minister, Key Laboratory of Plant Genetic Improvement and Comprehensive Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- National Education Minister, Key Laboratory of Plant Genetic Improvement and Comprehensive Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- College of Agriculture Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
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- College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- National Education Minister, Key Laboratory of Plant Genetic Improvement and Comprehensive Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- National Education Minister, Key Laboratory of Plant Genetic Improvement and Comprehensive Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
- College of Agriculture Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China
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Todaka D, Quynh DTN, Tanaka M, Utsumi Y, Utsumi C, Ezoe A, Takahashi S, Ishida J, Kusano M, Kobayashi M, Saito K, Nagano AJ, Nakano Y, Mitsuda N, Fujiwara S, Seki M. Application of ethanol alleviates heat damage to leaf growth and yield in tomato. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 15:1325365. [PMID: 38439987 PMCID: PMC10909983 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1325365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024]
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Chemical priming has emerged as a promising area in agricultural research. Our previous studies have demonstrated that pretreatment with a low concentration of ethanol enhances abiotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis and cassava. Here, we show that ethanol treatment induces heat stress tolerance in tomato (Solanum lycopersicon L.) plants. Seedlings of the tomato cultivar 'Micro-Tom' were pretreated with ethanol solution and then subjected to heat stress. The survival rates of the ethanol-pretreated plants were significantly higher than those of the water-treated control plants. Similarly, the fruit numbers of the ethanol-pretreated plants were greater than those of the water-treated ones. Transcriptome analysis identified sets of genes that were differentially expressed in shoots and roots of seedlings and in mature green fruits of ethanol-pretreated plants compared with those in water-treated plants. Gene ontology analysis using these genes showed that stress-related gene ontology terms were found in the set of ethanol-induced genes. Metabolome analysis revealed that the contents of a wide range of metabolites differed between water- and ethanol-treated samples. They included sugars such as trehalose, sucrose, glucose, and fructose. From our results, we speculate that ethanol-induced heat stress tolerance in tomato is mainly the result of increased expression of stress-related genes encoding late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins, reactive oxygen species (ROS) elimination enzymes, and activated gluconeogenesis. Our results will be useful for establishing ethanol-based chemical priming technology to reduce heat stress damage in crops, especially in Solanaceae.
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- Daisuke Todaka
- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Agricultural Genetics Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Plant Epigenome Regulation Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Saitama, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Plant Epigenome Regulation Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Saitama, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Plant Epigenome Regulation Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Saitama, Japan
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- Metabolomics Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Tsukuba Plant Innovation Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Metabolomics Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Metabolomics Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Ryukoku University, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Yamagata, Japan
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- Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
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- Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
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- Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Plant Epigenome Regulation Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Saitama, Japan
- Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Saitama, Japan
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Dharni JS, Shi Y, Zhang C, Petersen C, Walia H, Staswick P. Growth and transcriptional response of wheat and rice to the tertiary amine BMVE. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 14:1273620. [PMID: 38269141 PMCID: PMC10806070 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1273620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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Introduction Seed vigor is largely a product of sound seed development, maturation processes, genetics, and storage conditions. It is a crucial factor impacting plant growth and crop yield and is negatively affected by unfavorable environmental conditions, which can include drought and heat as well as cold wet conditions. The latter leads to slow germination and increased seedling susceptibility to pathogens. Prior research has shown that a class of plant growth regulators called substituted tertiary amines (STAs) can enhance seed germination, seedling growth, and crop productivity. However, inconsistent benefits have limited STA adoption on a commercial scale. Methods We developed a novel seed treatment protocol to evaluate the efficacy of 2-(N-methyl benzyl aminoethyl)-3-methyl butanoate (BMVE), which has shown promise as a crop seed treatment in field trials. Transcriptomic analysis of rice seedlings 24 h after BMVE treatment was done to identify the molecular basis for the improved seedling growth. The impact of BMVE on seed development was also evaluated by spraying rice panicles shortly after flower fertilization and subsequently monitoring the impact on seed traits. Results BMVE treatment of seeds 24 h after imbibition consistently improved wheat and rice seedling shoot and root growth in lab conditions. Treated wheat seedlings grown to maturity in a greenhouse also resulted in higher biomass than controls, though only under drought conditions. Treated seedlings had increased levels of transcripts involved in reactive oxygen species scavenging and auxin and gibberellic acid signaling. Conversely, several genes associated with increased reactive oxygen species/ROS load, abiotic stress responses, and germination hindering processes were reduced. BMVE spray increased both fresh and mature seed weights relative to the control for plants exposed to 96 h of heat stress. BMVE treatment during seed development also benefited germination and seedling growth in the next generation, under both ambient and heat stress conditions. Discussion The optimized experimental conditions we developed provide convincing evidence that BMVE does indeed have efficacy in plant growth enhancement. The results advance our understanding of how STAs work at the molecular level and provide insights for their practical application to improve crop growth.
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- Jaspinder Singh Dharni
- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States
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- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States
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- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States
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Bollier N, Micol-Ponce R, Dakdaki A, Maza E, Zouine M, Djari A, Bouzayen M, Chevalier C, Delmas F, Gonzalez N, Hernould M. Various tomato cultivars display contrasting morphological and molecular responses to a chronic heat stress. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1278608. [PMID: 37965003 PMCID: PMC10642206 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1278608] [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: 08/16/2023] [Accepted: 10/06/2023] [Indexed: 11/16/2023]
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Climate change is one of the biggest threats that human society currently needs to face. Heat waves associated with global warming negatively affect plant growth and development and will increase in intensity and frequency in the coming years. Tomato is one of the most produced and consumed fruit in the world but remarkable yield losses occur every year due to the sensitivity of many cultivars to heat stress (HS). New insights into how tomato plants are responding to HS will contribute to the development of cultivars with high yields under harsh temperature conditions. In this study, the analysis of microsporogenesis and pollen germination rate of eleven tomato cultivars after exposure to a chronic HS revealed differences between genotypes. Pollen development was either delayed and/or desynchronized by HS depending on the cultivar considered. In addition, except for two, pollen germination was abolished by HS in all cultivars. The transcriptome of floral buds at two developmental stages (tetrad and pollen floral buds) of five cultivars revealed common and specific molecular responses implemented by tomato cultivars to cope with chronic HS. These data provide valuable insights into the diversity of the genetic response of floral buds from different cultivars to HS and may contribute to the development of future climate resilient tomato varieties.
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- N. Bollier
- INRAE, Université de Bordeaux, BFP, Bordeaux, France
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- INRAE, Université de Bordeaux, BFP, Bordeaux, France
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- Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse INP, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse INP, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse INP, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse INP, Toulouse, France
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- INRAE, Université de Bordeaux, BFP, Bordeaux, France
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- INRAE, Université de Bordeaux, BFP, Bordeaux, France
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- INRAE, Université de Bordeaux, BFP, Bordeaux, France
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- INRAE, Université de Bordeaux, BFP, Bordeaux, France
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Mizoi J, Todaka D, Imatomi T, Kidokoro S, Sakurai T, Kodaira KS, Takayama H, Shinozaki K, Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K. The ability to induce heat shock transcription factor-regulated genes in response to lethal heat stress is associated with thermotolerance in tomato cultivars. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1269964. [PMID: 37868310 PMCID: PMC10585066 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1269964] [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: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 09/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/24/2023]
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Heat stress is a severe challenge for plant production, and the use of thermotolerant cultivars is critical to ensure stable production in high-temperature-prone environments. However, the selection of thermotolerant cultivars is difficult due to the complex nature of heat stress and the time and space needed for evaluation. In this study, we characterized genome-wide differences in gene expression between thermotolerant and thermosensitive tomato cultivars and examined the possibility of selecting gene expression markers to estimate thermotolerance among different tomato cultivars. We selected one thermotolerant and one thermosensitive cultivar based on physiological evaluations and compared heat-responsive gene expression in these cultivars under stepwise heat stress and acute heat shock conditions. Transcriptomic analyses reveled that two heat-inducible gene expression pathways, controlled by the heat shock element (HSE) and the evening element (EE), respectively, presented different responses depending on heat stress conditions. HSE-regulated gene expression was induced under both conditions, while EE-regulated gene expression was only induced under gradual heat stress conditions in both cultivars. Furthermore, HSE-regulated genes showed higher expression in the thermotolerant cultivar than the sensitive cultivar under acute heat shock conditions. Then, candidate expression biomarker genes were selected based on the transcriptome data, and the usefulness of these candidate genes was validated in five cultivars. This study shows that the thermotolerance of tomato is correlated with its ability to maintain the heat shock response (HSR) under acute severe heat shock conditions. Furthermore, it raises the possibility that the robustness of the HSR under severe heat stress can be used as an indicator to evaluate the thermotolerance of crop cultivars.
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- Junya Mizoi
- Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Japan
- Interdisciplinary Science Unit, Multidisciplinary Science Cluster, Research and Education Faculty, Kochi University, Nankoku, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Gene Discovery Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Tsukuba, Japan
- Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Research Institute for Agricultural and Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
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Löchli K, Torbica E, Haile-Weldeslasie M, Baku D, Aziz A, Bublak D, Fragkostefanakis S. Crosstalk between endoplasmic reticulum and cytosolic unfolded protein response in tomato. Cell Stress Chaperones 2023; 28:511-528. [PMID: 36449150 PMCID: PMC10469158 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-022-01316-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2022] [Revised: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 11/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Conditions that cause proteotoxicity like high temperature trigger the activation of unfolded protein response (UPR). The cytosolic (CPR) and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) UPR rely on heat stress transcription factor (HSF) and two members of the basic leucine zipper (bZIP) gene family, respectively. In tomato, HsfA1a is the master regulator of CPR. Here, we identified the core players of tomato ER-UPR including the two central transcriptional regulators, namely bZIP28 and bZIP60. Interestingly, the induction of ER-UPR genes and the activation of bZIP60 are altered in transgenic plants where HsfA1a is either overexpressed (A1aOE) or suppressed (A1CS), indicating an interplay between CPR and ER-UPR systems. Several ER-UPR genes are differentially expressed in the HsfA1a transgenic lines either exposed to heat stress or to the ER stress elicitor tunicamycin (TUN). The ectopic expression of HsfA1a is associated with higher tolerance against TUN. On the example of the ER-resident Hsp70 chaperone BIP3, we show that the presence of cis-elements required for HSF and bZIP regulation serves as a putative platform for the co-regulation of these genes by both CPR and ER-UPR mechanisms, in the case of BIP3 in a stimulatory manner under high temperatures. In addition, we show that the accumulation of HsfA1a results in higher levels of three ATG genes and a more sensitized induction of autophagy in response to ER stress which also supports the increased tolerance to ER stress of the A1aOE line. These findings provide a basis for the coordination of protein homeostasis in different cellular compartments under stress conditions.
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- Karin Löchli
- Molecular and Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, D-60438, Germany
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- Molecular and Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, D-60438, Germany
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- Molecular and Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, D-60438, Germany
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- Molecular and Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, D-60438, Germany
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- Molecular and Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, D-60438, Germany
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Causse M, Bénéjam J, Bineau E, Bitton F, Brault M, Carretero Y, Desaint H, Hereil A, Pellegrino K, Pelpoir E, Zhao J. Genetic control of tomato fruit quality: from QTL mapping to Genome Wide Association studies and breeding. C R Biol 2023; 345:3-13. [PMID: 36847117 DOI: 10.5802/crbiol.99] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Consumers began to complain about the taste of tomato varieties in the late 1990's. Although tomato taste is influenced by environmental and post-harvest conditions, varieties show a large diversity for fruit quality traits. We herein review our past and present research work intended to improve tomato fruit quality. First, results from sensory analysis allowed identifying important traits for consumer preferences. Then, we dissected the genetic control of flavor related traits by mapping several QTL in the last 20 years, and identified the genes corresponding to a few major QTL. Since the availability of the tomato genome sequence, genome-wide association studies were performed on several panels of tomato accessions. We discovered a large number of associations for fruit composition and identified relevant allele combinations for breeding. We then performed a meta-analysis combining the results of several studies. We also checked the inheritance of quality traits at the hybrid level and assessed how genomic prediction could help selecting better tomato varieties.
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Bhat MA, Mishra AK, Jan S, Bhat MA, Kamal MA, Rahman S, Shah AA, Jan AT. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria in Plant Health: A Perspective Study of the Underground Interaction. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:629. [PMID: 36771713 PMCID: PMC9919780 DOI: 10.3390/plants12030629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2023] [Revised: 01/22/2023] [Accepted: 01/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Plants are affected by various environmental stresses such as high or low temperatures, drought, and high salt levels, which can disrupt their normal cellular functioning and impact their growth and productivity. These stressors offer a major constraint to the morphological, physiological, and biochemical parameters; thereby attributing serious complications in the growth of crops such as rice, wheat, and corn. Considering the strategic and intricate association of soil microbiota, known as plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), with the plant roots, PGPR helps plants to adapt and survive under changing environmental conditions and become more resilient to stress. They aid in nutrient acquisition and regulation of water content in the soil and also play a role in regulating osmotic balance and ion homeostasis. Boosting key physiological processes, they contribute significantly to the alleviation of stress and promoting the growth and development of plants. This review examines the use of PGPR in increasing plant tolerance to different stresses, focusing on their impact on water uptake, nutrient acquisition, ion homeostasis, and osmotic balance, as well as their effects on crop yield and food security.
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- Mudasir Ahmad Bhat
- Department of Biotechnology, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri 185234, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea
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- Gene Expression Lab., School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri 185234, India
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- Gene Expression Lab., School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri 185234, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj 11942, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Botany, Munshi Singh College, BR Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur 845401, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri 185234, India
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- Gene Expression Lab., School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri 185234, India
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Rosenkranz RRE, Ullrich S, Löchli K, Simm S, Fragkostefanakis S. Relevance and Regulation of Alternative Splicing in Plant Heat Stress Response: Current Understanding and Future Directions. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:911277. [PMID: 35812973 PMCID: PMC9260394 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.911277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/26/2022] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Alternative splicing (AS) is a major mechanism for gene expression in eukaryotes, increasing proteome diversity but also regulating transcriptome abundance. High temperatures have a strong impact on the splicing profile of many genes and therefore AS is considered as an integral part of heat stress response. While many studies have established a detailed description of the diversity of the RNAome under heat stress in different plant species and stress regimes, little is known on the underlying mechanisms that control this temperature-sensitive process. AS is mainly regulated by the activity of splicing regulators. Changes in the abundance of these proteins through transcription and AS, post-translational modifications and interactions with exonic and intronic cis-elements and core elements of the spliceosomes modulate the outcome of pre-mRNA splicing. As a major part of pre-mRNAs are spliced co-transcriptionally, the chromatin environment along with the RNA polymerase II elongation play a major role in the regulation of pre-mRNA splicing under heat stress conditions. Despite its importance, our understanding on the regulation of heat stress sensitive AS in plants is scarce. In this review, we summarize the current status of knowledge on the regulation of AS in plants under heat stress conditions. We discuss possible implications of different pathways based on results from non-plant systems to provide a perspective for researchers who aim to elucidate the molecular basis of AS under high temperatures.
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- Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institute of Bioinformatics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Su X, Gao T, Zhang P, Li F, Wang D, Tian Y, Lu H, Zhang H, Wei S. Comparative physiological and transcriptomic analysis of sesame cultivars with different tolerance responses to heat stress. PHYSIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PLANTS : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 28:1131-1146. [PMID: 35722520 PMCID: PMC9203651 DOI: 10.1007/s12298-022-01195-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2021] [Revised: 05/20/2022] [Accepted: 05/22/2022] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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High temperature is the main factor affecting plant growth and can cause plant growth inhibition and yield reduction. Here, seedlings of two contrasting sesame varieties, i.e., Zheng Taizhi 3 (heat-tolerant) and SP19 (heat-sensitive), were treated at 43 °C for 10 days. The results showed that the relative electrical conductivity, hydrogen peroxide levels, and superoxide anion radical levels of both varieties increased significantly under high temperature stress. Additionally, dry matter accumulation and chlorophyll content decreased significantly, and the activities of peroxidase (POD), catalase (CAT), and superoxide dismutase (SOD) increased. However, under HT stress, the content of reactive oxygen species in Zheng Taizhi 3 was lower than that in SP19, and the activities of SOD, CAT, and POD as well as the chlorophyll content in Zheng Taizhi 3 were higher than those in SP19. Comparative transcriptome analysis identified 6736 differentially expressed genes (DEGs); 5526 DEGs (2878 up and 2648 down) were identified in Zheng Taizhi 3, and 5186 DEGs (2695 up and 2491 down) were identified in SP19, with 3976 overlapping DEGs. These DEGs included stress tolerance-related heat-shock proteins, as well as genes related to carbohydrate and energy metabolism, signal transduction, endoplasmic reticulum protein processing, amino acid metabolism, and secondary metabolism. Overall, our results showed that the heat tolerance of Zheng Taizhi 3 was attributed to a stronger antioxidant defense system, enabling the variety to avoid oxidative damage compared with the heat-sensitive SP19. Moreover, some specifically expressed and high-abundance genes in Zheng Taizhi 3 were involved in regulatory mechanisms related to heat tolerance, including plant hormone signal transduction and heat shock protein regulation, thereby enhancing heat tolerance. The study contributes to a deeper understanding of the underlying complex molecular mechanisms involved in the responses of sesame seedlings to heat stress and provides a potential strategy for heat-resistant new varieties. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12298-022-01195-3.
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- Xiaoyu Su
- Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, #116 Huayuan Road, Zhengzhou, 450000 Henan People’s Republic of China
- The Shennong Laboratory, Zhengzhou, 450002 Henan People’s Republic of China
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- Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, #116 Huayuan Road, Zhengzhou, 450000 Henan People’s Republic of China
- The Shennong Laboratory, Zhengzhou, 450002 Henan People’s Republic of China
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- Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, #116 Huayuan Road, Zhengzhou, 450000 Henan People’s Republic of China
- The Shennong Laboratory, Zhengzhou, 450002 Henan People’s Republic of China
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- Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, #116 Huayuan Road, Zhengzhou, 450000 Henan People’s Republic of China
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- Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, #116 Huayuan Road, Zhengzhou, 450000 Henan People’s Republic of China
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- Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, #116 Huayuan Road, Zhengzhou, 450000 Henan People’s Republic of China
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- Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, #116 Huayuan Road, Zhengzhou, 450000 Henan People’s Republic of China
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- Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, #116 Huayuan Road, Zhengzhou, 450000 Henan People’s Republic of China
- The Shennong Laboratory, Zhengzhou, 450002 Henan People’s Republic of China
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- Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, #116 Huayuan Road, Zhengzhou, 450000 Henan People’s Republic of China
- The Shennong Laboratory, Zhengzhou, 450002 Henan People’s Republic of China
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Jansma SY, Sergeeva LI, Tikunov YM, Kohlen W, Ligterink W, Rieu I. Low Salicylic Acid Level Improves Pollen Development Under Long-Term Mild Heat Conditions in Tomato. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:828743. [PMID: 35481151 PMCID: PMC9036445 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.828743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 02/22/2022] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Exposure to high temperatures leads to failure in pollen development, which may have significant implications for food security with ongoing climate change. We hypothesized that the stress response-associated hormone salicylic acid (SA) affects pollen tolerance to long-term mild heat (LTMH) (≥14 days exposure to day-/nighttime temperature of 30-34/24-28°C, depending on the genotype), either positively, by inducing acclimation, or negatively, by reducing investment in reproductive development. Here, we investigated these hypotheses assessing the pollen thermotolerance of a 35S:nahG tomato line, which has low SA levels. We found that reducing the SA level resulted in increased pollen viability of plants grown in LTMH and further characterized this line by transcriptome, carbohydrate, and hormone analyses. Low expression of JAZ genes in 35S:nahG and LTMH hypersensitivity of low-jasmonic acid (JA) genotypes together suggest that the increased pollen thermotolerance in the low-SA line involves enhanced JA signal in developing anthers in LTMH. These findings have potential application in the development of more thermotolerant crops.
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- Stuart Y. Jansma
- Plant Systems Physiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Plant Systems Physiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Qian R, Hu Q, Ma X, Zhang X, Ye Y, Liu H, Gao H, Zheng J. Comparative transcriptome analysis of heat stress responses of Clematis lanuginosa and Clematis crassifolia. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 22:138. [PMID: 35321648 PMCID: PMC8941805 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-022-03497-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2021] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND Clematis species are attractive ornamental plants with a variety of flower colors and patterns. Heat stress is one of the main factors restricting the growth, development, and ornamental value of Clematis. Clematis lanuginosa and Clematis crassifolia are large-flowered and evergreen Clematis species, respectively, that show different tolerance to heat stress. We compared and analyzed the transcriptome of C. lanuginose and C. crassifolia under heat stress to determine the regulatory mechanism(s) of resistance. RESULTS A total of 1720 and 6178 differentially expressed genes were identified from C. lanuginose and C. crassifolia, respectively. The photosynthesis and oxidation-reduction processes of C. crassifolia were more sensitive than C. lanuginose under heat stress. Glycine/serine/threonine metabolism, glyoxylic metabolism, and thiamine metabolism were important pathways in response to heat stress in C. lanuginose, and flavonoid biosynthesis, phenylalanine metabolism, and arginine/proline metabolism were the key pathways in C. crassifolia. Six sHSPs (c176964_g1, c200771_g1, c204924_g1, c199407_g2, c201522_g2, c192936_g1), POD1 (c200317_g1), POD3 (c210145_g2), DREB2 (c182557_g1), and HSFA2 (c206233_g2) may be key genes in the response to heat stress in C. lanuginose and C. crassifolia. CONCLUSIONS We compared important metabolic pathways and differentially expressed genes in response to heat stress between C. lanuginose and C. crassifolia. The results increase our understanding of the response mechanism and candidate genes of Clematis under heat stress. These data may contribute to the development of new Clematis varieties with greater heat tolerance.
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- Renjuan Qian
- College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037 China
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- Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Resource Plant Innovation and Utilization, Zhejiang Institute of Subtropical Crops, Wenzhou, 325005 Zhejiang China
- Zhejiang Institute of Subtropical Crops, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang 310021 Wenzhou, China
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- Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Resource Plant Innovation and Utilization, Zhejiang Institute of Subtropical Crops, Wenzhou, 325005 Zhejiang China
- Zhejiang Institute of Subtropical Crops, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang 310021 Wenzhou, China
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- Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Resource Plant Innovation and Utilization, Zhejiang Institute of Subtropical Crops, Wenzhou, 325005 Zhejiang China
- Zhejiang Institute of Subtropical Crops, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang 310021 Wenzhou, China
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- Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Resource Plant Innovation and Utilization, Zhejiang Institute of Subtropical Crops, Wenzhou, 325005 Zhejiang China
- Zhejiang Institute of Subtropical Crops, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang 310021 Wenzhou, China
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- Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Resource Plant Innovation and Utilization, Zhejiang Institute of Subtropical Crops, Wenzhou, 325005 Zhejiang China
- Zhejiang Institute of Subtropical Crops, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang 310021 Wenzhou, China
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- College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037 China
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- Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Resource Plant Innovation and Utilization, Zhejiang Institute of Subtropical Crops, Wenzhou, 325005 Zhejiang China
- Zhejiang Institute of Subtropical Crops, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang 310021 Wenzhou, China
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Malik S, Zhao D. Epigenetic Regulation of Heat Stress in Plant Male Reproduction. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:826473. [PMID: 35222484 PMCID: PMC8866763 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.826473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/21/2022] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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In flowering plants, male reproductive development is highly susceptible to heat stress. In this mini-review, we summarized different anomalies in tapetum, microspores, and pollen grains during anther development under heat stress. We then discussed how epigenetic control, particularly DNA methylation, is employed to cope with heat stress in male reproduction. Further understanding of epigenetic mechanisms by which plants manage heat stress during male reproduction will provide new genetic engineering and molecular breeding tools for generating heat-resistant crops.
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HsfA7 coordinates the transition from mild to strong heat stress response by controlling the activity of the master regulator HsfA1a in tomato. Cell Rep 2022; 38:110224. [PMID: 35021091 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2020] [Revised: 08/18/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Plants respond to higher temperatures by the action of heat stress (HS) transcription factors (Hsfs), which control the onset, early response, and long-term acclimation to HS. Members of the HsfA1 subfamily, such as tomato HsfA1a, are the central regulators of HS response, and their activity is fine-tuned by other Hsfs. We identify tomato HsfA7 as capacitor of HsfA1a during the early HS response. Upon a mild temperature increase, HsfA7 is induced in an HsfA1a-dependent manner. The subsequent interaction of the two Hsfs prevents the stabilization of HsfA1a resulting in a negative feedback mechanism. Under prolonged or severe HS, HsfA1a and HsfA7 complexes stimulate the induction of genes required for thermotolerance. Therefore, HsfA7 exhibits a co-repressor mode at mild HS by regulating HsfA1a abundance to moderate the upregulation of HS-responsive genes. HsfA7 undergoes a temperature-dependent transition toward a co-activator of HsfA1a to enhance the acquired thermotolerance capacity of tomato plants.
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Jan R, Kim N, Lee SH, Khan MA, Asaf S, Lubna, Park JR, Asif S, Lee IJ, Kim KM. Enhanced Flavonoid Accumulation Reduces Combined Salt and Heat Stress Through Regulation of Transcriptional and Hormonal Mechanisms. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:796956. [PMID: 34992623 PMCID: PMC8724123 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.796956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/24/2021] [Indexed: 07/22/2023]
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Abiotic stresses, such as salt and heat stress, coexist in some regions of the world and can have a significant impact on agricultural plant biomass and production. Rice is a valuable crop that is susceptible to salt and high temperatures. Here, we studied the role of flavanol 3-hydroxylase in response to combined salt and heat stress with the aim of better understanding the defensive mechanism of rice. We found that, compared with wild-type plants, the growth and development of transgenic plants were improved due to higher biosynthesis of kaempferol and quercetin. Furthermore, we observed that oxidative stress was decreased in transgenic plants compared with that in wild-type plants due to the reactive oxygen species scavenging activity of kaempferol and quercetin as well as the modulation of glutathione peroxidase and lipid peroxidase activity. The expression of high-affinity potassium transporter (HKT) and salt overly sensitive (SOS) genes was significantly increased in transgenic plants compared with in control plants after 12 and 24 h, whereas sodium-hydrogen exchanger (NHX) gene expression was significantly reduced in transgenic plants compared with in control plants. The expression of heat stress transcription factors (HSFs) and heat shock proteins (HSPs) in the transgenic line increased significantly after 6 and 12 h, although our understanding of the mechanisms by which the F3H gene regulates HKT, SOS, NHX, HSF, and HSP genes is limited. In addition, transgenic plants showed higher levels of abscisic acid (ABA) and lower levels of salicylic acid (SA) than were found in control plants. However, antagonistic cross talk was identified between these hormones when the duration of stress increased; SA accumulation increased, whereas ABA levels decreased. Although transgenic lines showed significantly increased Na+ ion accumulation, K+ ion accumulation was similar in transgenic and control plants, suggesting that increased flavonoid accumulation is crucial for balancing Na+/K+ ions. Overall, this study suggests that flavonoid accumulation increases the tolerance of rice plants to combined salt and heat stress by regulating physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms.
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- Rahmatullah Jan
- Division of Plant Biosciences, School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
- Coastal Agriculture Research Institute, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
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- Division of Plant Biosciences, School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
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- Division of Plant Biosciences, School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
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- Division of Plant Biosciences, School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
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- Natural and Medical Science Research Center, University of Nizwa, Nizwa, Oman
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- Department of Botany, Garden Campus, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan
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- Division of Plant Biosciences, School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
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- Division of Plant Biosciences, School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
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- Division of Plant Biosciences, School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
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- Division of Plant Biosciences, School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
- Coastal Agriculture Research Institute, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
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Almeida J, Perez-Fons L, Fraser PD. A transcriptomic, metabolomic and cellular approach to the physiological adaptation of tomato fruit to high temperature. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2021; 44:2211-2229. [PMID: 32691430 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2020] [Revised: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/12/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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High temperatures can negatively influence plant growth and development. Besides yield, the effects of heat stress on fruit quality traits remain poorly characterised. In tomato, insights into how fruits regulate cellular metabolism in response to heat stress could contribute to the development of heat-tolerant varieties, without detrimental effects on quality. In the present study, the changes occurring in wild type tomato fruits after exposure to transient heat stress have been elucidated at the transcriptome, cellular and metabolite level. An impact on fruit quality was evident as nutritional attributes changed in response to heat stress. Fruit carotenogenesis was affected, predominantly at the stage of phytoene formation, although altered desaturation/isomerisation arose during the transient exposure to high temperatures. Plastidial isoprenoid compounds showed subtle alterations in their distribution within chromoplast sub-compartments. Metabolite profiling suggests limited effects on primary/intermediary metabolism but lipid remodelling was evident. The heat-induced molecular signatures included the accumulation of sucrose and triacylglycerols, and a decrease in the degree of membrane lipid unsaturation, which influenced the volatile profile. Collectively, these data provide valuable insights into the underlying biochemical and molecular adaptation of fruit to heat stress and will impact on our ability to develop future climate resilient tomato varieties.
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- Juliana Almeida
- Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK
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Bhat MA, Mir RA, Kumar V, Shah AA, Zargar SM, Rahman S, Jan AT. Mechanistic insights of CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing towards enhancing abiotic stress tolerance in plants. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2021; 172:1255-1268. [PMID: 33576013 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Revised: 01/21/2021] [Accepted: 02/01/2021] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Abiotic stresses such as temperature (high/low), drought, salinity, and others make the environment hostile to plants. Abiotic stressors adversely affect plant growth and development; and thereby makes a direct impact on overall plant productivity. Plants confront stress by developing an internal defense system orchestrated by compatible solutes, reactive oxygen species scavengers and phytohormones. However, routine exposure to unpredictable environmental stressors makes it essential to equip plants with a system that contributes to sustainable agricultural productivity, besides imparting multi-stress tolerance. The sustainable approach against abiotic stress is accomplished through breeding of tolerant cultivars. Though eco-friendly, tedious screening and crossing protocol limits its usage to overcome stress and in attaining the goal of global food security. Advancement on the technological front has enabled adoption of genomic engineering approaches to perform site-specific modification in the plant genome for improving adaptability, increasing the yield and in attributing resilience against different stressors. Of the different genome editing approaches, CRISPR/Cas has revolutionized biological research with wider applicability to crop plants. CRISPR/Cas emerged as a versatile tool in editing genomes for desired traits in highly accurate and precise manner. The present study summarizes advancement of the CRISPR/Cas genome editing tool in its adoption to manipulate plant genomes for novel traits towards developing high-yielding and climate-resilient crop varieties.
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- Mujtaba Aamir Bhat
- Department of Botany, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, India
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- Proteomics Lab., Division of Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (SKUAST-K), Shalimar, Kashmir, India
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- Department of Botany, MS College, BR Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, India
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- Department of Botany, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, India
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Jacob P, Brisou G, Dalmais M, Thévenin J, van der Wal F, Latrasse D, Suresh Devani R, Benhamed M, Dubreucq B, Boualem A, Lepiniec L, Immink RGH, Hirt H, Bendahmane A. The Seed Development Factors TT2 and MYB5 Regulate Heat Stress Response in Arabidopsis. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:genes12050746. [PMID: 34063415 PMCID: PMC8156827 DOI: 10.3390/genes12050746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Revised: 04/30/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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HEAT SHOCK FACTOR A2 (HSFA2) is a regulator of multiple environmental stress responses required for stress acclimation. We analyzed HSFA2 co-regulated genes and identified 43 genes strongly co-regulated with HSFA2 during multiple stresses. Motif enrichment analysis revealed an over-representation of the site II element (SIIE) in the promoters of these genes. In a yeast 1-hybrid screen with the SIIE, we identified the closely related R2R3-MYB transcription factors TT2 and MYB5. We found overexpression of MYB5 or TT2 rendered plants heat stress tolerant. In contrast, tt2, myb5, and tt2/myb5 loss of function mutants showed heat stress hypersensitivity. Transient expression assays confirmed that MYB5 and TT2 can regulate the HSFA2 promoter together with the other members of the MBW complex, TT8 and TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA 1 (TTG1) and that the SIIE was involved in this regulation. Transcriptomic analysis revealed that TT2/MYB5 target promoters were enriched in SIIE. Overall, we report a new function of TT2 and MYB5 in stress resistance and a role in SIIE-mediated HSFA2 regulation.
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- Pierre Jacob
- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Univ. Evry, INRAE, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France; (P.J.); (G.B.); (M.D.); (D.L.); (R.S.D.); (M.B.); (A.B.)
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- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Univ. Evry, INRAE, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France; (P.J.); (G.B.); (M.D.); (D.L.); (R.S.D.); (M.B.); (A.B.)
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- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Univ. Evry, INRAE, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France; (P.J.); (G.B.); (M.D.); (D.L.); (R.S.D.); (M.B.); (A.B.)
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000 Versailles, France; (J.T.); (B.D.); (L.L.)
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- Bioscience and Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University and Research, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands; (F.v.d.W.); (R.G.H.I.)
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- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Univ. Evry, INRAE, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France; (P.J.); (G.B.); (M.D.); (D.L.); (R.S.D.); (M.B.); (A.B.)
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- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Univ. Evry, INRAE, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France; (P.J.); (G.B.); (M.D.); (D.L.); (R.S.D.); (M.B.); (A.B.)
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- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Univ. Evry, INRAE, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France; (P.J.); (G.B.); (M.D.); (D.L.); (R.S.D.); (M.B.); (A.B.)
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000 Versailles, France; (J.T.); (B.D.); (L.L.)
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- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Univ. Evry, INRAE, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France; (P.J.); (G.B.); (M.D.); (D.L.); (R.S.D.); (M.B.); (A.B.)
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000 Versailles, France; (J.T.); (B.D.); (L.L.)
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- Bioscience and Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University and Research, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands; (F.v.d.W.); (R.G.H.I.)
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- Darwin21, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia;
- Max Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Univ. Evry, INRAE, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France; (P.J.); (G.B.); (M.D.); (D.L.); (R.S.D.); (M.B.); (A.B.)
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Andrási N, Pettkó-Szandtner A, Szabados L. Diversity of plant heat shock factors: regulation, interactions, and functions. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2021; 72:1558-1575. [PMID: 33277993 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2020] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Plants heat shock factors (HSFs) are encoded by large gene families with variable structure, expression, and function. HSFs are components of complex signaling systems that control responses not only to high temperatures but also to a number of abiotic stresses such as cold, drought, hypoxic conditions, soil salinity, toxic minerals, strong irradiation, and to pathogen threats. Here we provide an overview of the diverse world of plant HSFs through compilation and analysis of their functional versatility, diverse regulation, and interactions. Bioinformatic data on gene expression profiles of Arabidopsis HSF genes were re-analyzed to reveal their characteristic transcript patterns. While HSFs are regulated primarily at the transcript level, alternative splicing and post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation and sumoylation provides further variability. Plant HSFs are involved in an intricate web of protein-protein interactions which adds considerable complexity to their biological function. A list of such interactions was compiled from public databases and published data, and discussed to pinpoint their relevance in transcription control. Although most fundamental studies of plant HSFs have been conducted in the model plant, Arabidopsis, information on HSFs is accumulating in other plants such as tomato, rice, wheat, and sunflower. Understanding the function, interactions, and regulation of HSFs will facilitate the design of novel strategies to use engineered proteins to improve tolerance and adaptation of crops to adverse environmental conditions.
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- Norbert Andrási
- Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, Temesvári krt., Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, Temesvári krt., Szeged, Hungary
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Dhatt BK, Paul P, Sandhu J, Hussain W, Irvin L, Zhu F, Adviento‐Borbe MA, Lorence A, Staswick P, Yu H, Morota G, Walia H. Allelic variation in rice Fertilization Independent Endosperm 1 contributes to grain width under high night temperature stress. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 229:335-350. [PMID: 32858766 PMCID: PMC7756756 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Accepted: 08/09/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A higher minimum (night-time) temperature is considered a greater limiting factor for reduced rice yield than a similar increase in maximum (daytime) temperature. While the physiological impact of high night temperature (HNT) has been studied, the genetic and molecular basis of HNT stress response remains unexplored. We examined the phenotypic variation for mature grain size (length and width) in a diverse set of rice accessions under HNT stress. Genome-wide association analysis identified several HNT-specific loci regulating grain size as well as loci that are common for optimal and HNT stress conditions. A novel locus contributing to grain width under HNT conditions colocalized with Fie1, a component of the FIS-PRC2 complex. Our results suggest that the allelic difference controlling grain width under HNT is a result of differential transcript-level response of Fie1 in grains developing under HNT stress. We present evidence to support the role of Fie1 in grain size regulation by testing overexpression (OE) and knockout mutants under heat stress. The OE mutants were either unaltered or had a positive impact on mature grain size under HNT, while the knockouts exhibited significant grain size reduction under these conditions.
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- Balpreet K. Dhatt
- Department of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNE68583USA
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- Department of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNE68583USA
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- Department of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNE68583USA
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- Department of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNE68583USA
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- Department of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNE68583USA
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- Department of Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNE68588USA
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- Department of Chemistry and PhysicsArkansas Biosciences InstituteArkansas State UniversityJonesboroAR72467USA
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- Department of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNE68583USA
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- Department of Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNE68588USA
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- Department of Animal and Poultry SciencesVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityBlacksburgVA24061USA
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- Department of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNE68583USA
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Moosavi SS, Abdi F, Abdollahi MR, Tahmasebi-Enferadi S, Maleki M. Phenological, morpho-physiological and proteomic responses of Triticum boeoticum to drought stress. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2020; 156:95-104. [PMID: 32920225 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2020] [Revised: 07/27/2020] [Accepted: 08/05/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Drought is the most important abiotic stress limiting wheat production worldwide. Triticum boeoticum, as wild wheat, is a rich gene pool for breeding for drought stress tolerance. In this study, to identify the most drought-tolerant and susceptible genotypes, ten T. boeoticum accessions were evaluated under non-stress and drought-stress conditions for two years. Among the studied traits, water-use efficiency (WUE) was suggested as the most important trait to identify drought-tolerant genotypes. According to the desirable and undesirable areas of the bi-plot, Tb5 and Tb6 genotypes were less and more affected by drought stress, respectively. Therefore, their flag-leaves proteins were used for two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. While, Tb5 contained a high amount of yield, yield components, and WUE, Tb6 had higher levels of water use, phenological related traits, and root related characters. Of the 235 spots found in the studied accessions, 14 spots (11 and 3 spots of Tb5 and Tb6, respectively) were selected for sequencing. Of these 14 spots, 9 and 5 spots were upregulated and downregulated, respectively. The identified proteins were grouped into six functional protein clusters, which were mainly involved in photosynthesis (36%), carbohydrate metabolism (29%), chaperone (7%), oxidation and reduction (7%), lipid metabolism and biological properties of the membrane (7%) and unknown function (14%). We report for the first time that MICP, in the group of lipid metabolism proteins, was significantly changed into wild wheat in response to drought stress. Maybe, the present-identified proteins could play an important role to understand the molecular pathways of wheat drought tolerance. We believe comparing and evaluating the similarity-identified proteins of T. boeoticum with the previously identified proteins of Aegilops tauschii, can provide a new direction to improve wheat tolerance to drought stress.
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- Sayyed Saeed Moosavi
- Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.
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- Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
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- Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
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- Department of Molecular Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Biotechnology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Science, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran
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Bhattacharya O, Ortiz I, Walling LL. Methodology: an optimized, high-yield tomato leaf chloroplast isolation and stroma extraction protocol for proteomics analyses and identification of chloroplast co-localizing proteins. PLANT METHODS 2020; 16:131. [PMID: 32983250 PMCID: PMC7513546 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-020-00667-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 09/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Chloroplasts are critical organelles that perceive and convey metabolic and stress signals to different cellular components, while remaining the seat of photosynthesis and a metabolic factory. The proteomes of intact leaves, chloroplasts, and suborganellar fractions of plastids have been evaluated in the model plant Arabidopsis, however fewer studies have characterized the proteomes of plastids in crops. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an important world-wide crop and a model system for the study of wounding, herbivory and fruit ripening. While significant advances have been made in understanding proteome and metabolome changes in fruit ripening, far less is known about the tomato chloroplast proteome or its subcompartments. RESULTS With the long-term goal of understanding chloroplast proteome dynamics in response to stress, we describe a high-yielding method to isolate intact tomato chloroplasts and stromal proteins for proteomic studies. The parameters that limit tomato chloroplast yields were identified and revised to increase yields. Compared to published data, our optimized method increased chloroplast yields by 6.7- and 4.3-fold relative to published spinach and Arabidopsis leaf protocols, respectively; furthermore, tomato stromal protein yields were up to 79-fold higher than Arabidopsis stromal proteins yields. We provide immunoblot evidence for the purity of the stromal proteome isolated using our enhanced methods. In addition, we leverage our nanoliquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (nanoLC-MS/MS) data to assess the quality of our stromal proteome. Using strict criteria, proteins detected by 1 peptide spectral match, by one peptide, or were sporadically detected were designated as low-level contaminating proteins. A set of 254 proteins that reproducibly co-isolated with the tomato chloroplast stroma were identified. The subcellular localization, frequency of detection, normalized spectral abundance, and functions of the co-isolating proteins are discussed. CONCLUSIONS Our optimized method for chloroplast isolation increased the yields of tomato chloroplasts eightfold enabling the proteomics analysis of the chloroplast stromal proteome. The set of 254 proteins that co-isolate with the chloroplast stroma provides opportunities for developing a better understanding of the extensive and dynamic interactions of chloroplasts with other organelles. These co-isolating proteins also have the potential for expanding our knowledge of proteins that are co-localized in multiple subcellular organelles.
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- Oindrila Bhattacharya
- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
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Ding H, Mo S, Qian Y, Yuan G, Wu X, Ge C. Integrated proteome and transcriptome analyses revealed key factors involved in tomato (
Solanum lycopersicum
) under high temperature stress. Food Energy Secur 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/fes3.239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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- Haidong Ding
- Co‐Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology College of Bioscience and Biotechnology Yangzhou University Yangzhou China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri‐Product Safety of Ministry of Education of China Yangzhou University Yangzhou China
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- Co‐Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology College of Bioscience and Biotechnology Yangzhou University Yangzhou China
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- Co‐Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology College of Bioscience and Biotechnology Yangzhou University Yangzhou China
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- Co‐Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology College of Bioscience and Biotechnology Yangzhou University Yangzhou China
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- Co‐Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology College of Bioscience and Biotechnology Yangzhou University Yangzhou China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri‐Product Safety of Ministry of Education of China Yangzhou University Yangzhou China
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- Co‐Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology College of Bioscience and Biotechnology Yangzhou University Yangzhou China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri‐Product Safety of Ministry of Education of China Yangzhou University Yangzhou China
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Janni M, Gullì M, Maestri E, Marmiroli M, Valliyodan B, Nguyen HT, Marmiroli N. Molecular and genetic bases of heat stress responses in crop plants and breeding for increased resilience and productivity. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2020; 71:3780-3802. [PMID: 31970395 PMCID: PMC7316970 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2019] [Accepted: 01/20/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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To ensure the food security of future generations and to address the challenge of the 'no hunger zone' proposed by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), crop production must be doubled by 2050, but environmental stresses are counteracting this goal. Heat stress in particular is affecting agricultural crops more frequently and more severely. Since the discovery of the physiological, molecular, and genetic bases of heat stress responses, cultivated plants have become the subject of intense research on how they may avoid or tolerate heat stress by either using natural genetic variation or creating new variation with DNA technologies, mutational breeding, or genome editing. This review reports current understanding of the genetic and molecular bases of heat stress in crops together with recent approaches to creating heat-tolerant varieties. Research is close to a breakthrough of global relevance, breeding plants fitter to face the biggest challenge of our time.
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- Michela Janni
- Institute of Bioscience and Bioresources (IBBR), National Research Council (CNR), Via Amendola, Bari, Italy
- Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism (IMEM), National Research Council (CNR), Parco Area delle Scienze, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze, Parma, Italy
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- Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
- Lincoln University, Jefferson City, MO, USA
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- Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze, Parma, Italy
- CINSA Interuniversity Consortium for Environmental Sciences, Parma/Venice, Italy
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Transcriptional Basis for Differential Thermosensitivity of Seedlings of Various Tomato Genotypes. Genes (Basel) 2020; 11:genes11060655. [PMID: 32560080 PMCID: PMC7349527 DOI: 10.3390/genes11060655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Revised: 06/07/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Transcriptional reprograming after the exposure of plants to elevated temperatures is a hallmark of stress response which is required for the manifestation of thermotolerance. Central transcription factors regulate the stress survival and recovery mechanisms and many of the core responses controlled by these factors are well described. In turn, pathways and specific genes contributing to variations in the thermotolerance capacity even among closely related plant genotypes are not well defined. A seedling-based assay was developed to directly compare the growth and transcriptome response to heat stress in four tomato genotypes with contrasting thermotolerance. The conserved and the genotype-specific alterations of mRNA abundance in response to heat stress were monitored after exposure to three different temperatures. The transcripts of the majority of genes behave similarly in all genotypes, including the majority of heat stress transcription factors and heat shock proteins, but also genes involved in photosynthesis and mitochondrial ATP production. In turn, genes involved in hormone and RNA-based regulation, such as auxin- and ethylene-related genes, or transcription factors like HsfA6b, show a differential regulation that associates with the thermotolerance pattern. Our results provide an inventory of genes likely involved in core and genotype-dependent heat stress response mechanisms with putative role in thermotolerance in tomato seedlings.
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Hu Y, Mesihovic A, Jiménez-Gómez JM, Röth S, Gebhardt P, Bublak D, Bovy A, Scharf KD, Schleiff E, Fragkostefanakis S. Natural variation in HsfA2 pre-mRNA splicing is associated with changes in thermotolerance during tomato domestication. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2020; 225:1297-1310. [PMID: 31556121 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2019] [Accepted: 09/18/2019] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Wild relatives of crops thrive in habitats where environmental conditions can be restrictive for productivity and survival of cultivated species. The genetic basis of this variability, particularly for tolerance to high temperatures, is not well understood. We examined the capacity of wild and cultivated accessions to acclimate to rapid temperature elevations that cause heat stress (HS). We investigated genotypic variation in thermotolerance of seedlings of wild and cultivated accessions. The contribution of polymorphisms associated with thermotolerance variation was examined regarding alterations in function of the identified gene. We show that tomato germplasm underwent a progressive loss of acclimation to strong temperature elevations. Sensitivity is associated with intronic polymorphisms in the HS transcription factor HsfA2 which affect the splicing efficiency of its pre-mRNA. Intron splicing in wild species results in increased synthesis of isoform HsfA2-II, implicated in the early stress response, at the expense of HsfA2-I which is involved in establishing short-term acclimation and thermotolerance. We propose that the selection for modern HsfA2 haplotypes reduced the ability of cultivated tomatoes to rapidly acclimate to temperature elevations, but enhanced their short-term acclimation capacity. Hence, we provide evidence that alternative splicing has a central role in the definition of plant fitness plasticity to stressful conditions.
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- Yangjie Hu
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, RD10, 78026, Versailles Cedex, France
- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen, 6708PB, the Netherlands
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS), D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Paul P, Dhatt BK, Sandhu J, Hussain W, Irvin L, Morota G, Staswick P, Walia H. Divergent phenotypic response of rice accessions to transient heat stress during early seed development. PLANT DIRECT 2020; 4:e00196. [PMID: 31956854 PMCID: PMC6955394 DOI: 10.1002/pld3.196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2019] [Revised: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 12/19/2019] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Increasing global surface temperatures is posing a major food security challenge. Part of the solution to address this problem is to improve crop heat resilience, especially during grain development, along with agronomic decisions such as shift in planting time and increasing crop diversification. Rice is a major food crop consumed by more than 3 billion people. For rice, thermal sensitivity of reproductive development and grain filling is well-documented, while knowledge concerning the impact of heat stress (HS) on early seed development is limited. Here, we aim to study the phenotypic variation in a set of diverse rice accessions for elucidating the HS response during early seed development. To explore the variation in HS sensitivity, we investigated aus (1), indica (2), temperate japonica (2), and tropical japonica (4) accessions for their HS (39/35°C) response during early seed development that accounts for transition of endosperm from syncytial to cellularization, which broadly corresponds to 24 and 96 hr after fertilization (HAF), respectively, in rice. The two indica and one of the tropical japonica accessions exhibited severe heat sensitivity with increased seed abortion; three tropical japonicas and an aus accession showed moderate heat tolerance, while temperate japonicas exhibited strong heat tolerance. The accessions exhibiting extreme heat sensitivity maintain seed size at the expense of number of fully developed mature seeds, while the accessions showing relative resilience to the transient HS maintained number of fully developed seeds but compromised on seed size, especially seed length. Further, histochemical analysis revealed that all the tested accessions have delayed endosperm cellularization upon exposure to the transient HS by 96 HAF; however, the rate of cellularization was different among the accessions. These findings were further corroborated by upregulation of cellularization-associated marker genes in the developing seeds from the heat-stressed samples.
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- Puneet Paul
- Department of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNEUSA
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- Department of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNEUSA
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- Department of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNEUSA
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- Department of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNEUSA
- International Rice Research InstituteLos BanosPhilippines
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- Department of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNEUSA
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- Department of Animal and Poultry SciencesVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityBlacksburgVAUSA
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- Department of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNEUSA
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- Department of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNEUSA
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Transcriptomic Responses of Dove Tree (Davidia involucrata Baill.) to Heat Stress at the Seedling Stage. FORESTS 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/f10080656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The dove tree (Davidia involucrata Baill.), a tertiary relic species, is adapted to cool climates. With the progression of global warming, high-temperature stress has become the primary environmental factor restricting geographic distribution, ex situ conservation, and landscape application for D. involucrata resources. However, the detailed molecular events underlying D. involucrata responses to heat stress are poorly understood. Here, we conducted RNA-Seq-based gene expression profiling in D. involucrata seedlings during the time course of a 42 °C heat treatment (0, 1, 6, and 12 h). After de novo assembly, we obtained 138,923 unigenes, of which 69,743 were annotated in public databases. Furthermore, 19,532, 20,497 and 27,716 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified after 1 h (HS1), 6 h (HS6), and 12 h (HS12) of heat treatment in comparison to 0 h (HS0), respectively. Based on a KEGG enrichment analysis, the two pathways “protein processing in endoplasmic reticulum” and “plant hormone signal transduction” are hypothesized to play vital roles during heat response in D. involucrata, and their potential interactions during heat stress are also discussed. In addition, 32 genes encoding putative heat shock transcription factors (Hsfs) were found to be associated with the response of D. involucrata to heat stress. Finally, the expression patterns of eight heat-responsive genes derived from qRT-PCR were in agreement with their transcript level alterations, as determined by a transcriptome analysis. Taken together, our transcriptomic data provide the first comprehensive transcriptional profile affected by heat stress in D. involucrata, which will facilitate further studies on the improvement of heat tolerance in this rare and endangered species.
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Kovacevic J, Palm D, Jooss D, Bublak D, Simm S, Schleiff E. Co-orthologues of ribosome biogenesis factors in A. thaliana are differentially regulated by transcription factors. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2019; 38:937-949. [PMID: 31087154 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-019-02416-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Accepted: 04/29/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Different genes coding for one ribosome biogenesis factor are differentially expressed and are likely under the control of distinct transcription factors, which contributes to the regulatory space for ribosome maturation. Maturation of ribosomes including rRNA processing and modification, rRNA folding and ribosome protein association requires the function of many ribosome biogenesis factors (RBFs). Recent studies document plant-specific variations of the generally conserved process of ribosome biogenesis. For instance, distinct rRNA maturation pathways and intermediates have been identified, the existence of plant specific RBFs has been proposed and several RBFs are encoded by multiple genes. The latter in combination with the discussed ribosome heterogeneity points to a possible function of the different proteins representing one RBF in diversification of ribosomal compositions. Such factor-based regulation would require a differential regulation of their expression, may be even controlled by different transcription factors. We analyzed the expression profiles of genes coding for putative RBFs and transcription factors. Most of the genes coding for RBFs are expressed in a comparable manner, while different genes coding for a single RBF are often differentially expressed. Based on a selected set of genes we document a function of the transcription factors AtMYC1, AtMYC2, AtbHLH105 and AtMYB26 on the regulation of different RBFs. Moreover, on the example of the RBFs LSG1 and BRX1, both encoded by two genes, we give a first hint on a differential transcription factor dependence of expression. Consistent with this observation, the phenotypic analysis of RBF mutants suggests a relation between LSG1-1 and BRX1-1 expression and the transcription factor MYC1. In summary, we propose that the multiple genes coding for one RBF are required to enlarge the regulatory space for ribosome biogenesis.
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- Jelena Kovacevic
- Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University, Biocenter/Max von Laue Straße 9/N200/R3.02, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University, Biocenter/Max von Laue Straße 9/N200/R3.02, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University, Biocenter/Max von Laue Straße 9/N200/R3.02, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University, Biocenter/Max von Laue Straße 9/N200/R3.02, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University, Biocenter/Max von Laue Straße 9/N200/R3.02, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University, Biocenter/Max von Laue Straße 9/N200/R3.02, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Functional diversification of tomato HsfA1 factors is based on DNA binding domain properties. Gene 2019; 714:143985. [PMID: 31330236 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2019.143985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2019] [Revised: 07/13/2019] [Accepted: 07/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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In all eukaryotes, the response to heat stress (HS) is dependent on the activity of HS transcription factors (Hsfs). Plants contain a large number of Hsfs, however, only members of the HsfA1 subfamily are considered as master regulators of stress response and thermotolerance. In Solanum lycopersicum, among the four HsfA1 members, only HsfA1a has been proposed to possess a master regulator function. We performed a comparative analysis of HsfA1a, HsfA1b, HsfA1c and HsfA1e at different levels of regulation and function. HsfA1a is constitutively expressed under control and stress conditions, while the other members are induced in specific tissues and stages of HS response. Despite that all members are localized in the nucleus when expressed in protoplasts, only HsfA1a shows a wide range of basal activity on several HS-induced genes. In contrast, HsfA1b, HsfA1c, and HsfA1e show only high activity for specific subsets of genes. Domain swapping mutants between HsfA1a and HsfA1c revealed that the variation in that transcriptional transactivation activity is due to differences in the DNA binding domain (DBD). Specifically, we identified a conserved arginine (R107) residue in the turn of β3 and β4 sheet in the C-terminus of the DBD of HsfA1a that is highly conserved in plant HsfA1 proteins, but is replaced by leucine and cysteine in tomato HsfA1c and HsfA1e, respectively. Although not directly involved in DNA interaction, R107 contributes to DNA binding and consequently the activity of HsfA1a. Thus, we demonstrate that this variation in DBD in part explains the functional diversification of tomato HsfA1 members.
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Marko D, El-Shershaby A, Carriero F, Summerer S, Petrozza A, Iannacone R, Schleiff E, Fragkostefanakis S. Identification and Characterization of a Thermotolerant TILLING Allele of Heat Shock Binding Protein 1 in Tomato. Genes (Basel) 2019; 10:genes10070516. [PMID: 31284688 PMCID: PMC6678839 DOI: 10.3390/genes10070516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2019] [Revised: 06/30/2019] [Accepted: 07/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The identification of heat stress (HS)-resilient germplasm is important to ensure food security under less favorable environmental conditions. For that, germplasm with an altered activity of factors regulating the HS response is an important genetic tool for crop improvement. Heat shock binding protein (HSBP) is one of the main negative regulators of HS response, acting as a repressor of the activity of HS transcription factors. We identified a TILLING allele of Solanum lycopersicum (tomato) HSBP1. We examined the effects of the mutation on the functionality of the protein in tomato protoplasts, and compared the thermotolerance capacity of lines carrying the wild-type and mutant alleles of HSBP1. The methionine-to-isoleucine mutation in the central heptad repeats of HSBP1 leads to a partial loss of protein function, thereby reducing the inhibitory effect on Hsf activity. Mutant seedlings show enhanced basal thermotolerance, while mature plants exhibit increased resilience in repeated HS treatments, as shown by several physiological parameters. Importantly, plants that are homozygous for the wild-type or mutant HSBP1 alleles showed no significant differences under non-stressed conditions. Altogether, these results indicate that the identified mutant HSBP1 allele can be used as a genetic tool in breeding, aiming to improve the thermotolerance of tomato varieties.
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- Dominik Marko
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- ALSIA Research Center Metapontum Agrobios S.S. Jonica 106 Km 448,2 -75100 Matera, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Department of Molecular Biology, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Division, National Research Centre, 12311 Dokki, Giza, Egypt
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- ALSIA Research Center Metapontum Agrobios S.S. Jonica 106 Km 448,2 -75100 Matera, Italy
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- ALSIA Research Center Metapontum Agrobios S.S. Jonica 106 Km 448,2 -75100 Matera, Italy
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- ALSIA Research Center Metapontum Agrobios S.S. Jonica 106 Km 448,2 -75100 Matera, Italy
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- ALSIA Research Center Metapontum Agrobios S.S. Jonica 106 Km 448,2 -75100 Matera, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS), D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Rodriguez-Concepcion M, D'Andrea L, Pulido P. Control of plastidial metabolism by the Clp protease complex. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2019; 70:2049-2058. [PMID: 30576524 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ery441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2018] [Accepted: 11/29/2018] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Plant metabolism is strongly dependent on plastids. Besides hosting the photosynthetic machinery, these endosymbiotic organelles synthesize starch, fatty acids, amino acids, nucleotides, tetrapyrroles, and isoprenoids. Virtually all enzymes involved in plastid-localized metabolic pathways are encoded by the nuclear genome and imported into plastids. Once there, protein quality control systems ensure proper folding of the mature forms and remove irreversibly damaged proteins. The Clp protease is the main machinery for protein degradation in the plastid stroma. Recent work has unveiled an increasing number of client proteins of this proteolytic complex in plants. Notably, a substantial proportion of these substrates are required for normal chloroplast metabolism, including enzymes involved in the production of essential tetrapyrroles and isoprenoids such as chlorophylls and carotenoids. The Clp protease complex acts in coordination with nuclear-encoded plastidial chaperones for the control of both enzyme levels and proper folding (i.e. activity). This communication involves a retrograde signaling pathway, similarly to the unfolded protein response previously characterized in mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum. Coordinated Clp protease and chaperone activities appear to further influence other plastid processes, such as the differentiation of chloroplasts into carotenoid-accumulating chromoplasts during fruit ripening.
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- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Barcelona, Spain
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Krishna R, Karkute SG, Ansari WA, Jaiswal DK, Verma JP, Singh M. Transgenic tomatoes for abiotic stress tolerance: status and way ahead. 3 Biotech 2019; 9:143. [PMID: 30944790 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-019-1665-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 03/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is one of the most important vegetable crops; its production, productivity and quality are adversely affected by abiotic stresses. Abiotic stresses such as drought, extreme temperature and high salinity affect almost every stage of tomato life cycle. Depending upon the plant stage and duration of the stress, abiotic stress causes about 70% yield loss. Several wild tomato species have the stress tolerance genes; however, it is very difficult to transfer them into cultivars due to high genetic distance and crossing barriers. Transgenic technology is an alternative potential tool for the improvement of tomato crop to cope with abiotic stress, as it allows gene transfer across species. In recent decades, many transgenic tomatoes have been developed, and many more are under progress against abiotic stress using transgenes such as DREBs, Osmotin, ZAT12 and BADH2. The altered expression of these transgenes under abiotic stresses are involved in every step of stress responses, such as signaling, control of transcription, proteins and membrane protection, compatible solute (betaines, sugars, polyols, and amino acids) synthesis, and free-radical and toxic-compound scavenging. The stress-tolerant transgenic tomato development is based on introgression of a gene with known function in stress response and putative tolerance. Transgenic tomato plants have been developed against drought, heat and salt stress with the help of various transgenes, expression of which manages the stress at the cellular level by modulating the expression of downstream genes to ultimately improve growth and yield of tomato plants and help in sustainable agricultural production. The transgenic technology could be a faster way towards tomato improvement against abiotic stress. This review provides comprehensive information about transgenic tomato development against abiotic stress such as drought, heat and salinity for researcher attention and a better understanding of transgenic technology used in tomato improvement and sustainable agricultural production.
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- Ram Krishna
- 1Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005 India
- 2Division of Vegetable Improvement, ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, 221305 India
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- 2Division of Vegetable Improvement, ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, 221305 India
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- 2Division of Vegetable Improvement, ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, 221305 India
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- 1Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005 India
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- 1Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005 India
- 3Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Campus, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, Sydney, NSW 2750 Australia
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- 4ICAR-Directorate of Onion and Garlic Research, Rajgurunagar, Pune, 410505 India
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Fragkostefanakis S, Simm S, El-Shershaby A, Hu Y, Bublak D, Mesihovic A, Darm K, Mishra SK, Tschiersch B, Theres K, Scharf C, Schleiff E, Scharf KD. The repressor and co-activator HsfB1 regulates the major heat stress transcription factors in tomato. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2019; 42:874-890. [PMID: 30187931 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2018] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Plants code for a multitude of heat stress transcription factors (Hsfs). Three of them act as central regulators of heat stress (HS) response in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). HsfA1a regulates the initial response, and HsfA2 controls acquired thermotolerance. HsfB1 is a transcriptional repressor but can also act as co-activator of HsfA1a. Currently, the mode of action and the relevance of the dual function of HsfB1 remain elusive. We examined this in HsfB1 overexpression or suppression transgenic tomato lines. Proteome analysis revealed that HsfB1 overexpression stimulates the co-activator function of HsfB1 and consequently the accumulation of HS-related proteins under non-stress conditions. Plants with enhanced levels of HsfB1 show aberrant growth and development but enhanced thermotolerance. HsfB1 suppression has no significant effect prior to stress. Upon HS, HsfB1 suppression strongly enhances the induction of heat shock proteins due to the higher activity of other HS-induced Hsfs, resulting in increased thermotolerance compared with wild-type. Thereby, HsfB1 acts as co-activator of HsfA1a for several Hsps, but as a transcriptional repressor on other Hsfs, including HsfA1b and HsfA2. The dual function explains the activation of chaperones to enhance protection and regulate the balance between growth and stress response upon deviations from the homeostatic levels of HsfB1.
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- Sotirios Fragkostefanakis
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medicine, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medicine, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Berz J, Simm S, Schuster S, Scharf KD, Schleiff E, Ebersberger I. HEATSTER: A Database and Web Server for Identification and Classification of Heat Stress Transcription Factors in Plants. Bioinform Biol Insights 2019; 13:1177932218821365. [PMID: 30670918 PMCID: PMC6327235 DOI: 10.1177/1177932218821365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2018] [Accepted: 11/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Heat stress transcription factors (HSFs) regulate transcriptional response to a large number of environmental influences, such as temperature fluctuations and chemical compound applications. Plant HSFs represent a large and diverse gene family. The HSF members vary substantially both in gene expression patterns and molecular functions. HEATSTER is a web resource for mining, annotating, and analyzing members of the different classes of HSFs in plants. A web-interface allows the identification and class assignment of HSFs, intuitive searches in the database and visualization of conserved motifs, and domains to classify novel HSFs.
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- Jannik Berz
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Department of Life Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (CIBIV), Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Department of Life Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Inst. of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Applied Bioinformatics Group, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Arce D, Spetale F, Krsticevic F, Cacchiarelli P, Las Rivas JD, Ponce S, Pratta G, Tapia E. Regulatory motifs found in the small heat shock protein (sHSP) gene family in tomato. BMC Genomics 2018; 19:860. [PMID: 30537925 PMCID: PMC6288846 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-5190-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND In living organisms, small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are triggered in response to stress situations. This family of proteins is large in plants and, in the case of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), 33 genes have been identified, most of them related to heat stress response and to the ripening process. Transcriptomic and proteomic studies have revealed complex patterns of expression for these genes. In this work, we investigate the coregulation of these genes by performing a computational analysis of their promoter architecture to find regulatory motifs known as heat shock elements (HSEs). We leverage the presence of sHSP members that originated from tandem duplication events and analyze the promoter architecture diversity of the whole sHSP family, focusing on the identification of HSEs. RESULTS We performed a search for conserved genomic sequences in the promoter regions of the sHSPs of tomato, plus several other proteins (mainly HSPs) that are functionally related to heat stress situations or to ripening. Several computational analyses were performed to build multiple sequence motifs and identify transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) homologous to HSF1AE and HSF21 in Arabidopsis. We also investigated the expression and interaction of these proteins under two heat stress situations in whole tomato plants and in protoplast cells, both in the presence and in the absence of heat shock transcription factor A2 (HsfA2). The results of these analyses indicate that different sHSPs are up-regulated depending on the activation or repression of HsfA2, a key regulator of HSPs. Further, the analysis of protein-protein interaction between the sHSP protein family and other heat shock response proteins (Hsp70, Hsp90 and MBF1c) suggests that several sHSPs are mediating alternative stress response through a regulatory subnetwork that is not dependent on HsfA2. CONCLUSIONS Overall, this study identifies two regulatory motifs (HSF1AE and HSF21) associated with the sHSP family in tomato which are considered genomic HSEs. The study also suggests that, despite the apparent redundancy of these proteins, which has been linked to gene duplication, tomato sHSPs showed different up-regulation and different interaction patterns when analyzed under different stress situations.
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- Debora Arce
- IICAR-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Campo Experimental Villarino, Zavalla, S2125ZAA Argentina
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- CIFASIS - CONICET, Ocampo y Esmeralda, Rosario, S2000EZP Argentina
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- IICAR-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Campo Experimental Villarino, Zavalla, S2125ZAA Argentina
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- Cancer Research Center CiC-IBMCC, CSIC/USAL, Campus Miguel de Unamuno s/n, Salamanca, 37007 Spain
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- GADIB-FRSN-UTN, Colon 332, San Nicolas, B2900LWH Argentina
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- IICAR-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Campo Experimental Villarino, Zavalla, S2125ZAA Argentina
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- CIFASIS - CONICET, Ocampo y Esmeralda, Rosario, S2000EZP Argentina
- Faculty of Exact Sciences, Engineering and Surveying, Av. Pellegrini 250, Rosario, S2000BTP Argentina
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Jegadeesan S, Beery A, Altahan L, Meir S, Pressman E, Firon N. Ethylene production and signaling in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) pollen grains is responsive to heat stress conditions. PLANT REPRODUCTION 2018; 31:367-383. [PMID: 29948007 DOI: 10.1007/s00497-018-0339-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2018] [Accepted: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Tomato pollen grains have the capacity for ethylene production, possessing specific components of the ethylene-biosynthesis and -signaling pathways, being affected/responsive to high-temperature conditions. Exposure of plants to heat stress (HS) conditions reduces crop yield and quality, mainly due to sensitivity of pollen grains. Recently, it was demonstrated that ethylene, a gaseous plant hormone, plays a significant role in tomato pollen heat-tolerance. It is not clear, however, whether, or to what extent, pollen grains are dependent on the capacity of the surrounding anther tissues for ethylene synthesis and signaling, or can synthesize this hormone and possess an active signaling pathway. The aim of this work was (1) to investigate if isolated, maturing and mature, tomato pollen grains have the capacity for ethylene production, (2) to find out whether pollen grains possess an active ethylene-biosynthesis and -signaling pathway and characterize the respective tomato pollen components at the transcript level, (3) to look into the effect of short-term HS conditions. Results from accumulation studies showed that pollen, anthers, and flowers produced ethylene and HS affected differentially ethylene production by (rehydrated) mature pollen, compared to anthers and flowers, causing elevated ethylene levels. Furthermore, several ethylene synthesis genes were expressed, with SlACS3 and SlACS11 standing out as highly HS-induced genes of the pollen ethylene biosynthesis pathway. Specific components of the ethylene-signaling pathway as well as several ethylene-responsive factors were expressed in pollen, with SlETR3 (ethylene receptor; named also NR, for never ripe) and SlCTR2 (constitutive triple response2) being HS responsive. This work shows that tomato pollen grains have the capacity for ethylene production, possessing active ethylene-biosynthesis and -signaling pathways, highlighting specific pollen components that serve as a valuable resource for future research on the role of ethylene in pollen thermotolerance.
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- Sridharan Jegadeesan
- Department of Vegetable Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, 50250, Bet Dagan, Israel
- The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Vegetable Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, 50250, Bet Dagan, Israel
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- Department of Vegetable Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, 50250, Bet Dagan, Israel
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- Postharvest Science of Fresh Produce, Postharvest and Food Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, 50250, Bet Dagan, Israel
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- Department of Vegetable Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, 50250, Bet Dagan, Israel
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- Department of Vegetable Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, 50250, Bet Dagan, Israel.
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Liu CC, Chi C, Jin LJ, Zhu J, Yu JQ, Zhou YH. The bZip transcription factor HY5 mediates CRY1a-induced anthocyanin biosynthesis in tomato. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2018; 41:1762-1775. [PMID: 29566255 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2017] [Revised: 02/02/2018] [Accepted: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The production of anthocyanin is regulated by light and corresponding photoreceptors. In this study, we found that exposure to blue light and overexpression of CRY1a are associated with increased accumulation of anthocyanin in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.). These responses are the result of changes in mRNA and the protein levels of SlHY5, which is a transcription factor. In vitro and in vivo experiments using electrophoretic mobility shift assay and ChIP-qPCR assays revealed that SlHY5 could directly recognize and bind to the G-box and ACGT-containing element in the promoters of anthocyanin biosynthesis genes, such as chalcone synthase 1, chalcone synthase 2, and dihydroflavonol 4-reductase. Silencing of SlHY5 in OE-CRY1a lines decreased the accumulation of anthocyanin. The findings presented here not only deepened our understanding of how light controls anthocyanin biosynthesis and associated photoprotection in tomato leaves, but also allowed us to explore potential targets for improving pigment production.
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- Chao-Chao Liu
- Department of Horticulture, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, 310058, China
- School of Biotechnology, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212021, China
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- Department of Horticulture, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Department of Horticulture, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA
- School of Biotechnology, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212021, China
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- Department of Horticulture, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, 310058, China
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plants Growth, Development and Quality Improvement, Agricultural Ministry of China, Zijingang Road 866, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Department of Horticulture, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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Keller M, Simm S. The coupling of transcriptome and proteome adaptation during development and heat stress response of tomato pollen. BMC Genomics 2018; 19:447. [PMID: 29884134 PMCID: PMC5994098 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-4824-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2018] [Accepted: 05/24/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Pollen development is central for plant reproduction and is assisted by changes of the transcriptome and proteome. At the same time, pollen development and viability is largely sensitive to stress, particularly to elevated temperatures. The transcriptomic and proteomic changes during pollen development and of different stages in response to elevated temperature was targeted to define the underlying molecular principles. RESULTS The analysis of the transcriptome and proteome of Solanum lycopersicum pollen at tetrad, post-meiotic and mature stage before and after heat stress yielded a decline of the transcriptome but an increase of the proteome size throughout pollen development. Comparison of the transcriptome and proteome led to the discovery of two modes defined as direct and delayed translation. Here, genes of distinct functional processes are under the control of direct and delayed translation. The response of pollen to elevated temperature occurs rather at proteome, but not as drastic at the transcriptome level. Heat shock proteins, proteasome subunits, ribosomal proteins and eukaryotic initiation factors are most affected. On the example of heat shock proteins we demonstrate a decoupling of transcript and protein levels as well as a distinct regulation between the developmental stages. CONCLUSIONS The transcriptome and proteome of developing pollen undergo drastic changes in composition and quantity. Changes at the proteome level are a result of two modes assigned as direct and delayed translation. The response of pollen to elevated temperature is mainly regulated at the proteome level, whereby proteins related to synthesis and degradation of proteins are most responsive and might play a central role in the heat stress response of pollen.
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- Mario Keller
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Keller M, Hu Y, Mesihovic A, Fragkostefanakis S, Schleiff E, Simm S. Alternative splicing in tomato pollen in response to heat stress. DNA Res 2018; 24:205-217. [PMID: 28025318 PMCID: PMC5397606 DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsw051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2016] [Accepted: 10/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Alternative splicing (AS) is a key control mechanism influencing signal response cascades in different developmental stages and under stress conditions. In this study, we examined heat stress (HS)-induced AS in the heat sensitive pollen tissue of two tomato cultivars. To obtain the entire spectrum of HS-related AS, samples taken directly after HS and after recovery were combined and analysed by RNA-seq. For nearly 9,200 genes per cultivar, we observed at least one AS event under HS. In comparison to control, for one cultivar we observed 76% more genes with intron retention (IR) or exon skipping (ES) under HS. Furthermore, 2,343 genes had at least one transcript with IR or ES accumulated under HS in both cultivars. These genes are involved in biological processes like protein folding, gene expression and heat response. Transcriptome assembly of these genes revealed that most of the alternative spliced transcripts possess truncated coding sequences resulting in partial or total loss of functional domains. Moreover, 141 HS specific and 22 HS repressed transcripts were identified. Further on, we propose AS as layer of stress response regulating constitutively expressed genes under HS by isoform abundance.
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- Mario Keller
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants.,Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt.,Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants.,Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt
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Wang W, Teng F, Lin Y, Ji D, Xu Y, Chen C, Xie C. Transcriptomic study to understand thermal adaptation in a high temperature-tolerant strain of Pyropia haitanensis. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0195842. [PMID: 29694388 PMCID: PMC5919043 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2017] [Accepted: 04/01/2018] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Pyropia haitanensis, a high-yield commercial seaweed in China, is currently undergoing increasing levels of high-temperature stress due to gradual global warming. The mechanisms of plant responses to high temperature stress vary with not only plant type but also the degree and duration of high temperature. To understand the mechanism underlying thermal tolerance in P. haitanensis, gene expression and regulation in response to short- and long-term temperature stresses (SHS and LHS) was investigated by performing genome-wide high-throughput transcriptomic sequencing for a high temperature tolerant strain (HTT). A total of 14,164 differential expression genes were identified to be high temperature-responsive in at least one time point by high-temperature treatment, representing 41.10% of the total number of unigenes. The present data indicated a decrease in the photosynthetic and energy metabolic rates in HTT to reduce unnecessary energy consumption, which in turn facilitated in the rapid establishment of acclimatory homeostasis in its transcriptome during SHS. On the other hand, an increase in energy consumption and antioxidant substance activity was observed with LHS, which apparently facilitates in the development of resistance against severe oxidative stress. Meanwhile, ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis, brassinosteroids, and heat shock proteins also play a vital role in HTT. The effects of SHS and LHS on the mechanism of HTT to resist heat stress were relatively different. The findings may facilitate further studies on gene discovery and the molecular mechanisms underlying high-temperature tolerance in P. haitanensis, as well as allow improvement of breeding schemes for high temperature-tolerant macroalgae that can resist global warming.
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- Wenlei Wang
- Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Ministry of Agriculture, Xiamen, China
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- Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Ministry of Agriculture, Xiamen, China
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- Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Ministry of Agriculture, Xiamen, China
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- Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Ministry of Agriculture, Xiamen, China
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- Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Ministry of Agriculture, Xiamen, China
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- Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Ministry of Agriculture, Xiamen, China
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- Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Ministry of Agriculture, Xiamen, China
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Paul P, Chaturvedi P, Mesihovic A, Ghatak A, Weckwerth W, Schleiff E. Protocol for Enrichment of the Membrane Proteome of Mature Tomato Pollen. Bio Protoc 2017; 7:e2315. [PMID: 34541080 DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.2315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2017] [Revised: 03/01/2017] [Accepted: 05/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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We established and elaborated on a method to enrich the membrane proteome of mature pollen from economically relevant crop using the example of Solanum lycopersicum (tomato). To isolate the pollen protein fraction enriched in membrane proteins, a high salt concentration (750 mM of sodium chloride) was used. The membrane protein-enriched fraction was then subjected to shotgun proteomics for identification of proteins, followed by in silico analysis to annotate and classify the detected proteins.
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- Puneet Paul
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Current address: Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA
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- Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Vienna Metabolomics Center (VIME), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Cluster of Excellence, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Germany
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Weiß S, Bartsch M, Winkelmann T. Transcriptomic analysis of molecular responses in Malus domestica 'M26' roots affected by apple replant disease. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 94:303-318. [PMID: 28424966 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-017-0608-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2016] [Accepted: 03/23/2017] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Gene expression studies in roots of apple replant disease affected plants suggested defense reactions towards biotic stress to occur which did not lead to adequate responses to the biotic stressors. Apple replant disease (ARD) leads to growth inhibition and fruit yield reduction in replanted populations and results in economic losses for tree nurseries and fruit producers. The etiology is not well understood on a molecular level and causal agents show a great diversity indicating that no definitive cause, which applies to the majority of cases, has been found out yet. Hence, it is pivotal to gain a better understanding of the molecular and physiological reactions of the plant when affected by ARD and later to overcome the disease, for example by developing tolerant rootstocks. For the first time, gene expression was investigated in roots of ARD affected plants employing massive analysis of cDNA ends (MACE) and RT-qPCR. In reaction to ARD, genes in secondary metabolite production as well as plant defense, regulatory and signaling genes were upregulated whereas for several genes involved in primary metabolism lower expression was detected. For internal verification of MACE data, candidate genes were tested via RT-qPCR and a strong positive correlation between both datasets was observed. Comparison of apple 'M26' roots cultivated in ARD soil or γ-irradiated ARD soil suggests that typical defense reactions towards biotic stress take place in ARD affected plants but they did not allow responding to the biotic stressors attack adequately, leading to the observed growth depressions in ARD variants.
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- Stefan Weiß
- Institute of Horticultural Production Systems, Section of Woody Plant and Propagation Physiology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Horticultural Production Systems, Section of Woody Plant and Propagation Physiology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Horticultural Production Systems, Section of Woody Plant and Propagation Physiology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419, Hannover, Germany.
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Jacob P, Hirt H, Bendahmane A. The heat-shock protein/chaperone network and multiple stress resistance. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2017; 15:405-414. [PMID: 27860233 PMCID: PMC5362687 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 370] [Impact Index Per Article: 52.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2016] [Revised: 10/25/2016] [Accepted: 11/03/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Crop yield has been greatly enhanced during the last century. However, most elite cultivars are adapted to temperate climates and are not well suited to more stressful conditions. In the context of climate change, stress resistance is a major concern. To overcome these difficulties, scientists may help breeders by providing genetic markers associated with stress resistance. However, multistress resistance cannot be obtained from the simple addition of single stress resistance traits. In the field, stresses are unpredictable and several may occur at once. Consequently, the use of single stress resistance traits is often inadequate. Although it has been historically linked with the heat stress response, the heat-shock protein (HSP)/chaperone network is a major component of multiple stress responses. Among the HSP/chaperone 'client proteins', many are primary metabolism enzymes and signal transduction components with essential roles for the proper functioning of a cell. HSPs/chaperones are controlled by the action of diverse heat-shock factors, which are recruited under stress conditions. In this review, we give an overview of the regulation of the HSP/chaperone network with a focus on Arabidopsis thaliana. We illustrate the role of HSPs/chaperones in regulating diverse signalling pathways and discuss several basic principles that should be considered for engineering multiple stress resistance in crops through the HSP/chaperone network.
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- Pierre Jacob
- Institute of Plant Science—Paris‐SaclayOrsayFrance
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- Center for Desert AgricultureKing Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyThuwalSaudi Arabia
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Guo M, Liu JH, Ma X, Zhai YF, Gong ZH, Lu MH. Genome-wide analysis of the Hsp70 family genes in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) and functional identification of CaHsp70-2 involvement in heat stress. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 252:246-256. [PMID: 27717461 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2016.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2016] [Revised: 07/01/2016] [Accepted: 07/04/2016] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Hsp70s function as molecular chaperones and are encoded by a multi-gene family whose members play a crucial role in plant response to stress conditions, and in plant growth and development. Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is an important vegetable crop whose genome has been sequenced. Nonetheless, no overall analysis of the Hsp70 gene family is reported in this crop plant to date. To assess the functionality of Capsicum annuum Hsp70 (CaHsp70) genes, pepper genome database was analyzed in this research. A total of 21 CaHsp70 genes were identified and their characteristics were also described. The promoter and transcript expression analysis revealed that CaHsp70s were involved in pepper growth and development, and heat stress response. Ectopic expression of a cytosolic gene, CaHsp70-2, regulated expression of stress-related genes and conferred increased thermotolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis. Taken together, our results provide the basis for further studied to dissect CaHsp70s' function in response to heat stress as well as other environmental stresses.
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- Meng Guo
- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, PR China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, PR China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, PR China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, PR China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, PR China.
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, PR China.
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Tandem Duplication Events in the Expansion of the Small Heat Shock Protein Gene Family in Solanum lycopersicum (cv. Heinz 1706). G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2016; 6:3027-3034. [PMID: 27565886 PMCID: PMC5068928 DOI: 10.1534/g3.116.032045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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In plants, fruit maturation and oxidative stress can induce small heat shock protein (sHSP) synthesis to maintain cellular homeostasis. Although the tomato reference genome was published in 2012, the actual number and functionality of sHSP genes remain unknown. Using a transcriptomic (RNA-seq) and evolutionary genomic approach, putative sHSP genes in the Solanum lycopersicum (cv. Heinz 1706) genome were investigated. A sHSP gene family of 33 members was established. Remarkably, roughly half of the members of this family can be explained by nine independent tandem duplication events that determined, evolutionarily, their functional fates. Within a mitochondrial class subfamily, only one duplicated member, Solyc08g078700, retained its ancestral chaperone function, while the others, Solyc08g078710 and Solyc08g078720, likely degenerated under neutrality and lack ancestral chaperone function. Functional conservation occurred within a cytosolic class I subfamily, whose four members, Solyc06g076570, Solyc06g076560, Solyc06g076540, and Solyc06g076520, support ∼57% of the total sHSP RNAm in the red ripe fruit. Subfunctionalization occurred within a new subfamily, whose two members, Solyc04g082720 and Solyc04g082740, show heterogeneous differential expression profiles during fruit ripening. These findings, involving the birth/death of some genes or the preferential/plastic expression of some others during fruit ripening, highlight the importance of tandem duplication events in the expansion of the sHSP gene family in the tomato genome. Despite its evolutionary diversity, the sHSP gene family in the tomato genome seems to be endowed with a core set of four homeostasis genes: Solyc05g014280, Solyc03g082420, Solyc11g020330, and Solyc06g076560, which appear to provide a baseline protection during both fruit ripening and heat shock stress in different tomato tissues.
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Mesihovic A, Iannacone R, Firon N, Fragkostefanakis S. Heat stress regimes for the investigation of pollen thermotolerance in crop plants. PLANT REPRODUCTION 2016; 29:93-105. [PMID: 27016360 DOI: 10.1007/s00497-016-0281-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2015] [Accepted: 03/08/2016] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Pollen thermotolerance. Global warming is predicted to increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather phenomena such as heat waves thereby posing a major threat for crop productivity and food security. The yield in case of most crop species is dependent on the success of reproductive development. Pollen development has been shown to be highly sensitive to elevated temperatures while the development of the female gametophyte as well as sporophytic tissues might also be disturbed under mild or severe heat stress conditions. Therefore, assessing pollen thermotolerance is currently of high interest for geneticists, plant biologists and breeders. A key aspect in pollen thermotolerance studies is the selection of the appropriate heat stress regime, the developmental stage that the stress is applied to, as well as the method of application. Literature search reveals a rather high variability in heat stress treatments mainly due to the lack of standardized protocols for different plant species. In this review, we summarize and discuss experimental approaches that have been used in various crops, with special focus on tomato, rice and wheat, as the best studied crops regarding pollen thermotolerance. The overview of stress treatments and the major outcomes of each study aim to provide guidelines for similar research in other crops.
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- Anida Mesihovic
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- ALSIA Research Center Metapontum Agrobios Metaponto (MT), 75010, Metaponto, Italy
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- Department of Vegetable Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, 50250, Bet Dagan, Israel
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Fragkostefanakis S, Mesihovic A, Hu Y, Schleiff E. Unfolded protein response in pollen development and heat stress tolerance. PLANT REPRODUCTION 2016; 29:81-91. [PMID: 27022919 DOI: 10.1007/s00497-016-0276-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2015] [Accepted: 02/10/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Importance of the UPR for pollen. Pollen is particularly sensitive to environmental conditions that disturb protein homeostasis, such as higher temperatures. Their survival is dependent on subcellular stress response systems, one of which maintains protein homeostasis in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Disturbance of ER proteostasis due to stress leads to the activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR) that mitigates stress damage mainly by increasing ER-folding capacity and reducing folding demands. The UPR is controlled by ER membrane-associated transcription factors and an RNA splicing factor. They are important components of abiotic stress responses including general heat stress response and thermotolerance. In addition to responding to environmental stresses, the UPR is implicated in developmental processes required for successful male gametophyte development and fertilization. Consequently, defects in the UPR can lead to pollen abortion and male sterility. Several UPR components are involved in the elaboration of the ER network, which is required for pollen germination and polar tube growth. Transcriptome and proteome analyses have shown that components of the ER-folding machinery and the UPR are upregulated at specific stages of pollen development supporting elevated demands for secretion. Furthermore, genetic studies have revealed that knockout mutants of UPR genes are defective in producing viable or competitive pollen. In this review, we discuss recent findings regarding the importance of the UPR for both pollen development and stress response.
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- Sotirios Fragkostefanakis
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe University, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Müller F, Rieu I. Acclimation to high temperature during pollen development. PLANT REPRODUCTION 2016; 29:107-18. [PMID: 27067439 PMCID: PMC4909792 DOI: 10.1007/s00497-016-0282-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2016] [Accepted: 03/28/2016] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Pollen heat acclimation. As a consequence of global warming, plants have to face more severe and more frequently occurring periods of high temperature stress. While this affects the whole plant, development of the male gametophyte, the pollen, seems to be the most sensitive process. Given the great importance of functioning pollen for the plant life cycle and for agricultural production, it is necessary to understand this sensitivity. While changes in temperature affect different components of all cells and require a cellular response and acclimation, high temperature effects and responses in developing pollen are distinct from vegetative tissues at several points. This could be related to specific physiological characteristics of developing pollen and supporting tissues which make them vulnerable to high temperature, or its derived effects such as ROS accumulation and carbohydrate starvation. But also expression of heat stress-responsive genes shows unique patterns in developing pollen when compared to vegetative tissues that might explain the failure to withstand high temperatures. As an alternative to viewing pollen failure under high temperature as a result of inherent sensitivity of a specific developmental process, we end by discussing whether it might actually be an adaptation.
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- Florian Müller
- Department of Molecular Plant Physiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Plant Physiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Spetale FE, Tapia E, Krsticevic F, Roda F, Bulacio P. A Factor Graph Approach to Automated GO Annotation. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0146986. [PMID: 26771463 PMCID: PMC4714749 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2015] [Accepted: 12/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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As volume of genomic data grows, computational methods become essential for providing a first glimpse onto gene annotations. Automated Gene Ontology (GO) annotation methods based on hierarchical ensemble classification techniques are particularly interesting when interpretability of annotation results is a main concern. In these methods, raw GO-term predictions computed by base binary classifiers are leveraged by checking the consistency of predefined GO relationships. Both formal leveraging strategies, with main focus on annotation precision, and heuristic alternatives, with main focus on scalability issues, have been described in literature. In this contribution, a factor graph approach to the hierarchical ensemble formulation of the automated GO annotation problem is presented. In this formal framework, a core factor graph is first built based on the GO structure and then enriched to take into account the noisy nature of GO-term predictions. Hence, starting from raw GO-term predictions, an iterative message passing algorithm between nodes of the factor graph is used to compute marginal probabilities of target GO-terms. Evaluations on Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Arabidopsis thaliana and Drosophila melanogaster protein sequences from the GO Molecular Function domain showed significant improvements over competing approaches, even when protein sequences were naively characterized by their physicochemical and secondary structure properties or when loose noisy annotation datasets were considered. Based on these promising results and using Arabidopsis thaliana annotation data, we extend our approach to the identification of most promising molecular function annotations for a set of proteins of unknown function in Solanum lycopersicum.
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- Flavio E. Spetale
- CIFASIS-Conicet Institute, Rosario, Argentina
- Facultad de Cs. Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura, National University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- CIFASIS-Conicet Institute, Rosario, Argentina
- Facultad de Cs. Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura, National University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- CIFASIS-Conicet Institute, Rosario, Argentina
- Facultad Regional San Nicolás, National Technological University, San Nicolás, Argentina
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- CIFASIS-Conicet Institute, Rosario, Argentina
- Facultad de Cs. Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura, National University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
- Facultad Regional San Nicolás, National Technological University, San Nicolás, Argentina
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