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Wang Z, Zhang J, Gao M, Deng Q, Zhang Y, Pei M, Zhao Y, Guo YD, Zhang H. SlWRKY37 targets SlLEA2 and SlABI5-like7 to regulate seed germination vigor in tomato. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2024; 214:108881. [PMID: 38968842 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2024.108881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2024] [Revised: 05/29/2024] [Accepted: 06/25/2024] [Indexed: 07/07/2024]
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Seed germination is a critical phase for the life cycle and propagation of higher plants. This study explores the role of SlWRKY37, a WRKY transcription factor in tomato, in modulating seed germination. We discovered that SlWRKY37 expression is markedly downregulated during tomato seed germination. Through CRISPR/Cas9-mediated editing, we demonstrate that SlWRKY37 knockout enhances germination, while its overexpression results in a delay compared to the wild type. Transcriptome analysis revealed 679 up-regulated and 627 down-regulated genes in Slwrky37-CRISPR deletion mutants relative to the wild type. Gene ontology (GO) enrichment analysis indicated these differentially expressed genes are linked to seed dormancy, abscisic acid homeostasis, and protein phosphorylation pathways. Bioinformatics and biochemical assays identified SlABI5-like7 and SlLEA2 as key transcriptional targets of SlWRKY37, integral to tomato seed dormancy regulation. Additionally, SlWRKY37 was found to be post-translationally phosphorylated at Ser65, a modification crucial for its transcriptional activation. Our findings elucidate the regulatory role of SlWRKY37 in seed dormancy, suggesting its potential as a target for gene editing to reduce seed dormancy in tomato breeding programs.
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- Zhirong Wang
- College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China; Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China; Supervision, Inspection and Test Center of Vegetable Seed Quality of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing, 100097, China
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- College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China; Supervision, Inspection and Test Center of Vegetable Seed Quality of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing, 100097, China
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- Supervision, Inspection and Test Center of Vegetable Seed Quality of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing, 100097, China
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- Supervision, Inspection and Test Center of Vegetable Seed Quality of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing, 100097, China
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- Supervision, Inspection and Test Center of Vegetable Seed Quality of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing, 100097, China
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- College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China.
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- Supervision, Inspection and Test Center of Vegetable Seed Quality of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing, 100097, China; State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Beijing Vegetable Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Science (BAAFS), Beijing, 100097, China; Beijing Key Laboratory of Vegetable Germplasms Improvement, Beijing, 100097, China; National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing, 100097, China.
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Zhang X, Ekwealor JTB, Mishler BD, Silva AT, Yu L, Jones AK, Nelson ADL, Oliver MJ. Syntrichia ruralis: emerging model moss genome reveals a conserved and previously unknown regulator of desiccation in flowering plants. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2024; 243:981-996. [PMID: 38415863 DOI: 10.1111/nph.19620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
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Water scarcity, resulting from climate change, poses a significant threat to ecosystems. Syntrichia ruralis, a dryland desiccation-tolerant moss, provides valuable insights into survival of water-limited conditions. We sequenced the genome of S. ruralis, conducted transcriptomic analyses, and performed comparative genomic and transcriptomic analyses with existing genomes and transcriptomes, including with the close relative S. caninervis. We took a genetic approach to characterize the role of an S. ruralis transcription factor, identified in transcriptomic analyses, in Arabidopsis thaliana. The genome was assembled into 12 chromosomes encompassing 21 169 protein-coding genes. Comparative analysis revealed copy number and transcript abundance differences in known desiccation-associated gene families, and highlighted genome-level variation among species that may reflect adaptation to different habitats. A significant number of abscisic acid (ABA)-responsive genes were found to be negatively regulated by a MYB transcription factor (MYB55) that was upstream of the S. ruralis ortholog of ABA-insensitive 3 (ABI3). We determined that this conserved MYB transcription factor, uncharacterized in Arabidopsis, acts as a negative regulator of an ABA-dependent stress response in Arabidopsis. The new genomic resources from this emerging model moss offer novel insights into how plants regulate their responses to water deprivation.
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- Xiaodan Zhang
- The Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT, 84322, USA
- Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 94132, USA
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- University and Jepson Herbaria, Berkeley, CA, 94720-2465, USA
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-2465, USA
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- The Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- The Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- The Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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Guarino F, Cicatelli A, Nissim WG, Colzi I, Gonnelli C, Basso MF, Vergata C, Contaldi F, Martinelli F, Castiglione S. Epigenetic changes induced by chronic and acute chromium stress treatments in Arabidopsis thaliana identified by the MSAP-Seq. CHEMOSPHERE 2024; 362:142642. [PMID: 38908441 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2023] [Revised: 05/21/2024] [Accepted: 06/16/2024] [Indexed: 06/24/2024]
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Chromium (Cr) is an highly toxic metal to plants and causes severe damage to their growth, development, and reproduction. Plant exposure to chronic and acute Cr stress treatments results in significant changes at short time in the gene expression profile and at long time in the genomic DNA methylation profile at a transgenerational level and, consequently, in gene expression. These epigenetic modifications and their implications imposed by the Cr stress are not yet completely known in plants. Herein, were identified the epigenetic changes induced by chronic and acute Cr stress treatments in Arabidopsis thaliana plants using Methylation Sensitive Amplification Polymorphism coupled with next-generation sequencing (MSAP-Seq). First-generation Arabidopsis plants (termed F0 plants) kept under hoagland solution were subjected to Cr stress treatments. For chronic Cr stress, plants were treated through hoagland solution with 2.5 μM Cr during the entire cultivation period until seed harvest. Meanwhile, for acute Cr stress, plants were treated with 5 μM Cr during the first three weeks and returned to unstressful control condition until seed harvest. Seeds from F0 plants were sown and F1 plants were re-submitted to the same Cr stress treatments. The seed germination rate was evaluated from F-2 seeds harvested of F1 plants kept under different Cr stress treatments (0, 10, 20, and 40 μM) compared to the unstressful control condition. These data showed significant changes in the germination rate of F-2 seeds originating from stressed F1 plants compared to F-2 seeds harvested from unstressful control plants. Given this data, F1 plants kept under these chronic and acute Cr stress treatments and unstressful control condition were evaluated for the transgenerational epigenetic modifications using MSAP-Seq. The MSAP-Seq data showed that several genes were modified in their methylation status as a consequence of chronic and acute Cr stress treatment to maintain plant defenses activated. In particular, RNA processing, protein translation, photorespiration, energy production, transmembrane transport, DNA transcription, plant development, and plant resilience were the major biological processes modulated by epigenetic mechanisms identified in F1 plants kept under chronic and acute Cr stress. Therefore, collective data suggested that Arabidopsis plants kept under Cr stress regulate their epigenetic status over generations based on DNA methylation to modulate defense and resilience mechanisms.
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- Francesco Guarino
- Department of Chemical and Biology "A. Zambelli", University of Salermo, 84084, Fisciano, Salerno, Italy
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- Department of Chemical and Biology "A. Zambelli", University of Salermo, 84084, Fisciano, Salerno, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Florence, Italy.
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- Department of Chemical and Biology "A. Zambelli", University of Salermo, 84084, Fisciano, Salerno, Italy
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Kc S, Nguyen KH, Nicholson V, Walgren A, Trent T, Gollub E, Ramero S, Holehouse AS, Sukenik S, Boothby TC. Disordered proteins interact with the chemical environment to tune their protective function during drying. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.02.28.582506. [PMID: 38464187 PMCID: PMC10925285 DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.28.582506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/12/2024]
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The conformational ensemble and function of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are sensitive to their solution environment. The inherent malleability of disordered proteins combined with the exposure of their residues accounts for this sensitivity. One context in which IDPs play important roles that is concomitant with massive changes to the intracellular environment is during desiccation (extreme drying). The ability of organisms to survive desiccation has long been linked to the accumulation of high levels of cosolutes such as trehalose or sucrose as well as the enrichment of IDPs, such as late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins or cytoplasmic abundant heat soluble (CAHS) proteins. Despite knowing that IDPs play important roles and are co-enriched alongside endogenous, species-specific cosolutes during desiccation, little is known mechanistically about how IDP-cosolute interactions influence desiccation tolerance. Here, we test the notion that the protective function of desiccation-related IDPs is enhanced through conformational changes induced by endogenous cosolutes. We find that desiccation-related IDPs derived from four different organisms spanning two LEA protein families and the CAHS protein family, synergize best with endogenous cosolutes during drying to promote desiccation protection. Yet the structural parameters of protective IDPs do not correlate with synergy for either CAHS or LEA proteins. We further demonstrate that for CAHS, but not LEA proteins, synergy is related to self-assembly and the formation of a gel. Our results suggest that functional synergy between IDPs and endogenous cosolutes is a convergent desiccation protection strategy seen among different IDP families and organisms, yet, the mechanisms underlying this synergy differ between IDP families.
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Escudero V, Fuenzalida M, Rezende EL, González-Guerrero M, Roschzttardtz H. Perspectives on embryo maturation and seed quality in a global climate change scenario. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2024; 75:4394-4399. [PMID: 38597771 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erae154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2024] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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Global climate change has already brought noticeable alterations to multiple regions of our planet, including increased CO2 concentrations and changes in temperature. Several important steps of plant growth and development, such as embryogenesis, can be affected by such environmental changes; for instance, they affect how stored nutrients are used during early stages of seed germination during the transition from heterotrophic to autotrophic metabolism-a critical period for the seedling's survival. In this article, we briefly describe relevant processes that occur during embryo maturation and account for nutrient accumulation, which are sensitive to environmental change. Most of the nutrients stored in the seed during its development-including carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins, depending on the species-accumulate during the seed maturation stage. It is also known that iron, a key micronutrient for various electron transfer processes in plant cells, accumulates during embryo maturation. The existing literature indicates that climate change can not only affect the quality of the seed, in terms of total nutritional content, but also affect seed production. We discuss the potential effects of temperature and CO2 increases from an embryo-autonomous point of view, in an attempt to separate the effects on the parent plant from those on the embryo.
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- Viviana Escudero
- Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (UPM-INIA/CSIC), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
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- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Center for Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (UPM-INIA/CSIC), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
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- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Li S, Wuyun TN, Wang L, Zhang J, Tian H, Zhang Y, Wang S, Xia Y, Liu X, Wang N, Lv F, Xu J, Tang Z. Genome-wide and functional analysis of late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) genes during dormancy and sprouting periods of kernel consumption apricots (P. armeniaca L. × P. sibirica L.). Int J Biol Macromol 2024:133245. [PMID: 38977045 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.133245] [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: 01/11/2024] [Revised: 06/05/2024] [Accepted: 06/16/2024] [Indexed: 07/10/2024]
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Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins play a crucial role in protecting cells from stress, making them potential contributors to abiotic stress tolerance. This study focuses on apricot (P. armeniaca L. × P. sibirica L.), where a comprehensive genome-wide analysis identified 54 LEA genes, categorized into eight subgroups based on phylogenetic relationships. Synteny analysis revealed 14 collinear blocks containing LEA genes between P. armeniaca × P. sibirica and Arabidopsis thaliana, with an additional 9 collinear blocks identified between P. armeniaca × P. sibirica and poplar. Examination of gene structure and conserved motifs indicated that these subgroups exhibit consistent exon-intron patterns and shared motifs. The expansion and duplication of LEA genes in P. armeniaca × P. sibirica were driven by whole-genome duplication (WGD), segmental duplication, and tandem duplication events. Expression analysis, utilizing RNA-seq data and quantitative real-time RT-PCR (qRT-PCR), indicated induction of PasLEA2-20, PasLEA3-2, PasLEA6-1, Pasdehydrin-3, and Pasdehydrin-5 in flower buds during dormancy and sprouting phases. Coexpression network analysis linked LEA genes with 15 cold-resistance genes. Remarkably, during the four developmental stages of flower buds in P. armeniaca × P. sibirica - physiological dormancy, ecological dormancy, sprouting period, and germination stage - the expression patterns of all PasLEAs coexpressed with cold stress-related genes remained consistent. Protein-protein interaction networks, established using Arabidopsis orthologs, emphasized connections between PasLEA proteins and cold resistance pathways. Overexpression of certain LEA genes in yeast and Arabidopsis conferred advantages under cold stress, including increased pod length, reduced bolting time and flowering time, improved survival and seed setting rates, elevated proline accumulation, and enhanced antioxidative enzymatic activities. Furthermore, these overexpressed plants exhibited upregulation of genes related to flower development and cold resistance. The Y1H assay confirmed that PasGBF4 and PasDOF3.5 act as upstream regulatory factors by binding to the promoter region of PasLEA3-2. PasDOF2.4, PasDnaJ2, and PasAP2 were also found to bind to the promoter of Pasdehydrin-3, regulating the expression levels of downstream genes. This comprehensive study explores the evolutionary relationships among PasLEA genes, protein interactions, and functional analyses during various stages of dormancy and sprouting in P. armeniaca × P. sibirica. It offers potential targets for enhancing cold resistance and manipulating flower bud dormancy in this apricot hybrid.
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- Shaofeng Li
- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Experimental Center of Forestry in North China, National Permanent Scientific Research Base for Warm Temperate Zone Forestry of Jiulong Mountain in Beijing, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Non-timber Forestry Research and Development Center, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Zhengzhou 450003, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Non-timber Forestry Research and Development Center, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Zhengzhou 450003, PR China.
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- Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Experimental Center of Forestry in North China, National Permanent Scientific Research Base for Warm Temperate Zone Forestry of Jiulong Mountain in Beijing, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Experimental Center of Forestry in North China, National Permanent Scientific Research Base for Warm Temperate Zone Forestry of Jiulong Mountain in Beijing, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Experimental Center of Forestry in North China, National Permanent Scientific Research Base for Warm Temperate Zone Forestry of Jiulong Mountain in Beijing, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Experimental Center of Forestry in North China, National Permanent Scientific Research Base for Warm Temperate Zone Forestry of Jiulong Mountain in Beijing, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Experimental Center of Forestry in North China, National Permanent Scientific Research Base for Warm Temperate Zone Forestry of Jiulong Mountain in Beijing, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Experimental Center of Forestry in North China, National Permanent Scientific Research Base for Warm Temperate Zone Forestry of Jiulong Mountain in Beijing, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, PR China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing Botany Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen), Nanjing 210014, Jiangsu Province, PR China.
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- Experimental Center of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Pingxiang 532600, PR China.
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- Institute of Ecological Conservation and Restoration, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100093, PR China.
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Wang Q, Lei X, Wang Y, Di P, Meng X, Peng W, Rong J, Wang Y. Genome-wide identification of the LEA gene family in Panax ginseng: Evidence for the role of PgLEA2-50 in plant abiotic stress response. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2024; 212:108742. [PMID: 38772166 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2024.108742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2024] [Revised: 04/21/2024] [Accepted: 05/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/23/2024]
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Ginseng frequently encounters environmental stress during its growth and development. Late Embryogenesis Abundant (LEA) proteins play a crucial role in combating adversity stress, particularly against abiotic challenges In this study, 107 LEA genes from ginseng, spanning eight subfamilies, were identified, demonstrating significant evolutionary conservation, with the LEA2 subfamily being most prominent. Gene duplication events, primarily segmental duplications, have played a major role in the expansion of the LEA gene family, which has undergone strong purifying selection. PgLEAs were unevenly distributed across 22 chromosomes, with each subfamily featuring unique structural domains and conserved motifs. PgLEAs were expressed in various tissues, exhibiting distinct variations in abundance and tissue specificity. Numerous regulatory cis-elements, related to abiotic stress and hormones, were identified in the promoter region. Additionally, PgLEAs were regulated by a diverse array of abiotic stress-related transcription factors. A total of 35 PgLEAs were differentially expressed following treatments with ABA, GA, and IAA. Twenty-three PgLEAs showed significant but varied responses to drought, extreme temperatures, and salinity stress. The transformation of tobacco with the key gene PgLEA2-50 enhanced osmoregulation and antioxidant levels in transgenic lines, improving their resistance to abiotic stress. This study offers insights into functional gene analysis, focusing on LEA proteins, and establishes a foundational framework for research on ginseng's resilience to abiotic stress.
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- Qi Wang
- Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
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Sze H, Klodová B, Ward JM, Harper JF, Palanivelu R, Johnson MA, Honys D. A wave of specific transcript and protein accumulation accompanies pollen dehydration. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2024; 195:1775-1795. [PMID: 38530638 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiae177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2023] [Revised: 12/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024]
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In flowering plants, male gametes are immotile and carried by dry pollen grains to the female organ. Dehydrated pollen is thought to withstand abiotic stress when grains are dispersed from the anther to the pistil, after which sperm cells are delivered via pollen tube growth for fertilization and seed set. Yet, the underlying molecular changes accompanying dehydration and the impact on pollen development are poorly understood. To gain a systems perspective, we analyzed published transcriptomes and proteomes of developing Arabidopsis thaliana pollen. Waves of transcripts are evident as microspores develop to bicellular, tricellular, and mature pollen. Between the "early"- and "late"-pollen-expressed genes, an unrecognized cluster of transcripts accumulated, including those encoding late-embryogenesis abundant (LEA), desiccation-related protein, transporters, lipid-droplet associated proteins, pectin modifiers, cysteine-rich proteins, and mRNA-binding proteins. Results suggest dehydration onset initiates after bicellular pollen is formed. Proteins accumulating in mature pollen like ribosomal proteins, initiation factors, and chaperones are likely components of mRNA-protein condensates resembling "stress" granules. Our analysis has revealed many new transcripts and proteins that accompany dehydration in developing pollen. Together with published functional studies, our results point to multiple processes, including (1) protect developing pollen from hyperosmotic stress, (2) remodel the endomembrane system and walls, (3) maintain energy metabolism, (4) stabilize presynthesized mRNA and proteins in condensates of dry pollen, and (5) equip pollen for compatibility determination at the stigma and for recovery at rehydration. These findings offer novel models and molecular candidates to further determine the mechanistic basis of dehydration and desiccation tolerance in plants.
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- Heven Sze
- Department Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 165 02 Prague 6, Czech Republic
- Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Praha 2, 128 00, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 165 02 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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Li J, Liu H, Lv X, Wang W, Liang X, Chen L, Wang Y, Liu J. A key ABA biosynthetic gene OsNCED3 is a positive regulator in resistance to Nilaparvata lugens in Oryza sativa. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 15:1359315. [PMID: 38988632 PMCID: PMC11233810 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1359315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 06/07/2024] [Indexed: 07/12/2024]
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The gene encoding 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase 3 (NCED3) functions in abscisic acid (ABA) biosynthesis, plant growth and development, and tolerance to adverse temperatures, drought and saline conditions. In this study, three rice lines were used to explore the function of OsNCED3, these included an OsNCED3-overexpressing line (OsNCED3-OE), a knockdown line (osnced3-RNAi) and wild-type rice (WT). These rice lines were infested with the brown plant hopper (BPH; Nilaparvata lugens) and examined for physiological and biochemical changes, hormone content, and defense gene expression. The results showed that OsNCED3 activated rice defense mechanisms, which led to an increased defense enzyme activity of superoxide dismutase, peroxidase, and polyphenol oxidase. The overexpression of OsNCED3 decreased the number of planthoppers and reduced oviposition and BPH hatching rates. Furthermore, the overexpression of OsNCED3 increased the concentrations of jasmonic acid, jasmonyl-isoleucine and ABA relative to WT rice and the osnced3-RNAi line. These results indicate that OsNCED3 improved the stress tolerance in rice and support a role for both jasmonates and ABA as defense compounds in the rice-BPH interaction.
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- Jitong Li
- College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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Hassanein F, Fadel HH, Shehata AI, Hamdy NA, Masoud IM. In silico study to explore the mechanism of Toxoplasma-induced inflammation and target therapy based on sero and salivary Toxoplasma. Sci Rep 2024; 14:13600. [PMID: 38866852 PMCID: PMC11169245 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-63735-z] [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: 04/17/2024] [Accepted: 05/31/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024] Open
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We aimed to assess salivary and seroprevalence of Toxoplasma immunoglobulins in risky populations and evaluate drug docking targeting TgERP. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Alexandria University hospitals' outpatient clinics. 192 participants were enrolled from September 2022 to November 2023. Anti-Toxoplasma IgG and IgM were determined in serum and saliva by ELISA. An in-Silico study examined TgERP's protein-protein interactions (PPIs) with pro-inflammatory cytokine receptors, anti-inflammatory cytokine, cell cycle progression regulatory proteins, a proliferation marker, and nuclear envelope integrity-related protein Lamin B1. Our findings revealed that anti-T. gondii IgG were detected in serum (66.1%) and saliva (54.7%), with 2.1% of both samples were positive for IgM. Salivary IgG had 75.59% sensitivity, 86.15% specificity, 91.40% PPV, 64.40% NPP, 79.17% accuracy and fair agreement with serum IgG. On the other hand, the sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV, and accuracy in detecting salivary IgM were 75.0%, 99.47%, 75.0%, 99.47%, and 98.96%. AUC 0.859 indicates good discriminatory power. Examined synthetic drugs and natural products can target specific amino acids residues of TgERP that lie at the same binding interface with LB1 and Ki67, subsequently, hindering their interaction. Hence, salivary samples can be a promising diagnostic approach. The studied drugs can counteract the pro-inflammatory action of TgERP.
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- Faika Hassanein
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Dentistry, Pharos University in Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt.
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences Technology, Pharos University in Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Department of Tropical Health, High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Pharos University in Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
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Nikolić I, Milisavljević M, Timotijević G. Assessing Transcriptomic Responses to Oxidative Stress: Contrasting Wild-Type Arabidopsis Seedlings with dss1(I) and dss1(V) Gene Knockout Mutants. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:6291. [PMID: 38927997 PMCID: PMC11203560 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25126291] [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: 05/08/2024] [Revised: 05/24/2024] [Accepted: 05/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024] Open
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Oxidative stress represents a critical facet of the array of abiotic stresses affecting crop growth and yield. In this paper, we investigated the potential differences in the functions of two highly homologous Arabidopsis DSS1 proteins in terms of maintaining genome integrity and response to oxidative stress. In the context of homologous recombination (HR), it was shown that overexpressing AtDSS1(I) using a functional complementation test increases the resistance of the Δdss1 mutant of Ustilago maydis to genotoxic agents. This indicates its conserved role in DNA repair via HR. To investigate the global transcriptome changes occurring in dss1 plant mutant lines, gene expression analysis was conducted using Illumina RNA sequencing technology. Individual RNA libraries were constructed from three total RNA samples isolated from dss1(I), dss1(V), and wild-type (WT) plants under hydrogen peroxide-induced stress. RNA-Seq data analysis and real-time PCR identification revealed major changes in gene expression between mutant lines and WT, while the dss1(I) and dss1(V) mutant lines exhibited analogous transcription profiles. The Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes enrichment analysis revealed significantly enriched metabolic pathways. Notably, genes associated with HR were upregulated in dss1 mutants compared to the WT. Otherwise, genes of the metabolic pathway responsible for the synthesis of secondary metabolites were downregulated in both dss1 mutant lines. These findings highlight the importance of understanding the molecular mechanisms of plant responses to oxidative stress.
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- Group for Plant Molecular Biology, Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Vojvode Stepe 444a, 11042 Belgrade, Serbia; (I.N.); (M.M.)
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Li C, Wang C, Cheng Z, Li Y, Li W. Carotenoid biosynthesis genes LcLCYB, LcLCYE, and LcBCH from wolfberry confer increased carotenoid content and improved salt tolerance in tobacco. Sci Rep 2024; 14:10586. [PMID: 38719951 PMCID: PMC11079049 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60848-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
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Carotenoids play essential roles in plant growth and development and provide plants with a tolerance to a series of abiotic stresses. In this study, the function and biological significance of lycopene β-cyclase, lycopene ε-cyclase, and β-carotene hydroxylase, which are responsible for the modification of the tetraterpene skeleton procedure, were isolated from Lycium chinense and analyzed. The overexpression of lycopene β-cyclase, lycopene ε-cyclase, and β-carotene hydroxylase promoted the accumulation of total carotenoids and photosynthesis enhancement, reactive oxygen species scavenging activity, and proline content of tobacco seedlings after exposure to the salt stress. Furthermore, the expression of the carotenoid biosynthesis genes and stress-related genes (ascorbate peroxidase, catalase, peroxidase, superoxide dismutase, and pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase) were detected and showed increased gene expression level, which were strongly associated with the carotenoid content and reactive oxygen species scavenging activity. After exposure to salt stress, the endogenous abscisic acid content was significantly increased and much higher than those in control plants. This research contributes to the development of new breeding aimed at obtaining stronger salt tolerance plants with increased total carotenoids and vitamin A content.
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- Chen Li
- College of Life Sciences, Dezhou University, 566 University Road, Dezhou, 253023, Shandong Province, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Dezhou University, 566 University Road, Dezhou, 253023, Shandong Province, China.
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- College of Life Sciences, Dezhou University, 566 University Road, Dezhou, 253023, Shandong Province, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Dezhou University, 566 University Road, Dezhou, 253023, Shandong Province, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Dezhou University, 566 University Road, Dezhou, 253023, Shandong Province, China
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Zhang J, Dong KL, Ren MZ, Wang ZW, Li JH, Sun WJ, Zhao X, Fu XX, Ye JF, Liu B, Zhang DM, Wang MZ, Zeng G, Niu YT, Lu LM, Su JX, Liu ZJ, Soltis PS, Soltis DE, Chen ZD. Coping with alpine habitats: genomic insights into the adaptation strategies of Triplostegia glandulifera (Caprifoliaceae). HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2024; 11:uhae077. [PMID: 38779140 PMCID: PMC11109519 DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhae077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2023] [Accepted: 03/08/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
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How plants find a way to thrive in alpine habitats remains largely unknown. Here we present a chromosome-level genome assembly for an alpine medicinal herb, Triplostegia glandulifera (Caprifoliaceae), and 13 transcriptomes from other species of Dipsacales. We detected a whole-genome duplication event in T. glandulifera that occurred prior to the diversification of Dipsacales. Preferential gene retention after whole-genome duplication was found to contribute to increasing cold-related genes in T. glandulifera. A series of genes putatively associated with alpine adaptation (e.g. CBFs, ERF-VIIs, and RAD51C) exhibited higher expression levels in T. glandulifera than in its low-elevation relative, Lonicera japonica. Comparative genomic analysis among five pairs of high- vs low-elevation species, including a comparison of T. glandulifera and L. japonica, indicated that the gene families related to disease resistance experienced a significantly convergent contraction in alpine plants compared with their lowland relatives. The reduction in gene repertory size was largely concentrated in clades of genes for pathogen recognition (e.g. CNLs, prRLPs, and XII RLKs), while the clades for signal transduction and development remained nearly unchanged. This finding reflects an energy-saving strategy for survival in hostile alpine areas, where there is a tradeoff with less challenge from pathogens and limited resources for growth. We also identified candidate genes for alpine adaptation (e.g. RAD1, DMC1, and MSH3) that were under convergent positive selection or that exhibited a convergent acceleration in evolutionary rate in the investigated alpine plants. Overall, our study provides novel insights into the high-elevation adaptation strategies of this and other alpine plants.
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- Jian Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops & Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- China National Botanical Garden, Beijing 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops & Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- China National Botanical Garden, Beijing 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China
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- PubBio-Tech Services Corporation, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Biology Department, Hope College, Holland, MI 49423, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops & Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- China National Botanical Garden, Beijing 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- PubBio-Tech Services Corporation, Wuhan 430070, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- School of Ecology, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops & Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- China National Botanical Garden, Beijing 100093, China
- Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops & Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- China National Botanical Garden, Beijing 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops & Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- China National Botanical Garden, Beijing 100093, China
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- Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun 666303, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops & Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- China National Botanical Garden, Beijing 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops & Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- China National Botanical Garden, Beijing 100093, China
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- School of Life Science, Shanxi Normal University, Taiyuan 030031, China
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- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops & Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- China National Botanical Garden, Beijing 100093, China
- Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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Blanca-Reyes I, Lechuga V, Llebrés MT, Carreira JA, Ávila C, Cánovas FM, Castro-Rodríguez V. Under Stress: Searching for Genes Involved in the Response of Abies pinsapo Boiss to Climate Change. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:4820. [PMID: 38732040 PMCID: PMC11084517 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25094820] [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: 03/29/2024] [Revised: 04/25/2024] [Accepted: 04/26/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024] Open
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Currently, Mediterranean forests are experiencing the deleterious effects of global warming, which mainly include increased temperatures and decreased precipitation in the region. Relict Abies pinsapo fir forests, endemic in the southern Iberian Peninsula, are especially sensitive to these recent environmental disturbances, and identifying the genes involved in the response of this endangered tree species to climate-driven stresses is of paramount importance for mitigating their effects. Genomic resources for A. pinsapo allow for the analysis of candidate genes reacting to warming and aridity in their natural habitats. Several members of the complex gene families encoding late embryogenesis abundant proteins (LEAs) and heat shock proteins (HSPs) have been found to exhibit differential expression patterns between wet and dry seasons when samples from distinct geographical locations and dissimilar exposures to the effects of climate change were analyzed. The observed changes were more perceptible in the roots of trees, particularly in declining forests distributed at lower altitudes in the more vulnerable mountains. These findings align with previous studies and lay the groundwork for further research on the molecular level. Molecular and genomic approaches offer valuable insights for mitigating climate stress and safeguarding this endangered conifer.
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- Irene Blanca-Reyes
- Grupo de Biología Molecular y Biotecnología, Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica en Instituto Andaluz de Biotecnología, Universidad de Málaga, Campus Universitario de Teatinos, 29071 Malaga, Spain; (I.B.-R.); (M.T.L.); (C.Á.)
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- Department of Ecology, Universidad de Jaen, Campus Las Lagunillas s/n., 23009 Jaén, Spain; (V.L.); (J.A.C.)
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- Grupo de Biología Molecular y Biotecnología, Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica en Instituto Andaluz de Biotecnología, Universidad de Málaga, Campus Universitario de Teatinos, 29071 Malaga, Spain; (I.B.-R.); (M.T.L.); (C.Á.)
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- Department of Ecology, Universidad de Jaen, Campus Las Lagunillas s/n., 23009 Jaén, Spain; (V.L.); (J.A.C.)
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- Grupo de Biología Molecular y Biotecnología, Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica en Instituto Andaluz de Biotecnología, Universidad de Málaga, Campus Universitario de Teatinos, 29071 Malaga, Spain; (I.B.-R.); (M.T.L.); (C.Á.)
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- Grupo de Biología Molecular y Biotecnología, Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica en Instituto Andaluz de Biotecnología, Universidad de Málaga, Campus Universitario de Teatinos, 29071 Malaga, Spain; (I.B.-R.); (M.T.L.); (C.Á.)
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- Grupo de Biología Molecular y Biotecnología, Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica en Instituto Andaluz de Biotecnología, Universidad de Málaga, Campus Universitario de Teatinos, 29071 Malaga, Spain; (I.B.-R.); (M.T.L.); (C.Á.)
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Yang J, Wang Y, Sun J, Li Y, Zhu R, Yin Y, Wang C, Yin X, Qin L. Metabolome and Transcriptome Association Analysis Reveals Mechanism of Synthesis of Nutrient Composition in Quinoa ( Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) Seeds. Foods 2024; 13:1325. [PMID: 38731698 PMCID: PMC11082971 DOI: 10.3390/foods13091325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2024] [Revised: 04/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/24/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024] Open
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Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) seeds are rich in nutrition, superior to other grains, and have a high market value. However, the biosynthesis mechanisms of protein, starch, and lipid in quinoa grain are still unclear. The objective of this study was to ascertain the nutritional constituents of white, yellow, red, and black quinoa seeds and to employ a multi-omics approach to analyze the synthesis mechanisms of these nutrients. The findings are intended to furnish a theoretical foundation and technical support for the biological breeding of quinoa in China. In this study, the nutritional analysis of white, yellow, red, and black quinoa seeds from the same area showed that the nutritional contents of the quinoa seeds were significantly different, and the protein content increased with the deepening of color. The protein content of black quinoa was the highest (16.1 g/100 g) and the lipid content was the lowest (2.7 g/100 g), among which, linoleic acid was the main fatty acid. A combined transcriptome and metabolome analysis exhibited that differentially expressed genes were enriched in "linoleic acid metabolism", "unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis", and "amino acid biosynthesis". We mainly identified seven genes involved in starch synthesis (LOC110716805, LOC110722789, LOC110738785, LOC110720405, LOC110730081, LOC110692055, and LOC110732328); five genes involved in lipid synthesis (LOC110701563, LOC110699636, LOC110709273, LOC110715590, and LOC110728838); and nine genes involved in protein synthesis (LOC110710842, LOC110720003, LOC110687170, LOC110716004, LOC110702086, LOC110724454 LOC110724577, LOC110704171, and LOC110686607). The data presented in this study based on nutrient, transcriptome, and metabolome analyses contribute to an enhanced understanding of the genetic regulation of seed quality traits in quinoa, and provide candidate genes for further genetic improvements to improve the nutritional value of quinoa seeds.
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- Jindan Yang
- College of Agronomy, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030031, China; (J.Y.); (Y.W.); (J.S.); (Y.L.); (Y.Y.); (C.W.)
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- College of Agronomy, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030031, China; (J.Y.); (Y.W.); (J.S.); (Y.L.); (Y.Y.); (C.W.)
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- College of Agronomy, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030031, China; (J.Y.); (Y.W.); (J.S.); (Y.L.); (Y.Y.); (C.W.)
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- College of Agronomy, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030031, China; (J.Y.); (Y.W.); (J.S.); (Y.L.); (Y.Y.); (C.W.)
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- School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230036, China;
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- College of Agronomy, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030031, China; (J.Y.); (Y.W.); (J.S.); (Y.L.); (Y.Y.); (C.W.)
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- College of Agronomy, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030031, China; (J.Y.); (Y.W.); (J.S.); (Y.L.); (Y.Y.); (C.W.)
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- Suzhou Selenium Valley Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou 215100, China;
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Functional Agriculture and Functional Food, Anhui Science and Technology University, Chuzhou 239000, China
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- College of Agronomy, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030031, China; (J.Y.); (Y.W.); (J.S.); (Y.L.); (Y.Y.); (C.W.)
- School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230036, China;
- Suzhou Selenium Valley Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou 215100, China;
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Evans KV, Ransom E, Nayakoti S, Wilding B, Mohd Salleh F, Gržina I, Erber L, Tse C, Hill C, Polanski K, Holland A, Bukhat S, Herbert RJ, de Graaf BHJ, Denby K, Buchanan-Wollaston V, Rogers HJ. Expression of the Arabidopsis redox-related LEA protein, SAG21 is regulated by ERF, NAC and WRKY transcription factors. Sci Rep 2024; 14:7756. [PMID: 38565965 PMCID: PMC10987515 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-58161-0] [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: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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SAG21/LEA5 is an unusual late embryogenesis abundant protein in Arabidopsis thaliana, that is primarily mitochondrially located and may be important in regulating translation in both chloroplasts and mitochondria. SAG21 expression is regulated by a plethora of abiotic and biotic stresses and plant growth regulators indicating a complex regulatory network. To identify key transcription factors regulating SAG21 expression, yeast-1-hybrid screens were used to identify transcription factors that bind the 1685 bp upstream of the SAG21 translational start site. Thirty-three transcription factors from nine different families bound to the SAG21 promoter, including members of the ERF, WRKY and NAC families. Key binding sites for both NAC and WRKY transcription factors were tested through site directed mutagenesis indicating the presence of cryptic binding sites for both these transcription factor families. Co-expression in protoplasts confirmed the activation of SAG21 by WRKY63/ABO3, and SAG21 upregulation elicited by oligogalacturonide elicitors was partially dependent on WRKY63, indicating its role in SAG21 pathogen responses. SAG21 upregulation by ethylene was abolished in the erf1 mutant, while wound-induced SAG21 expression was abolished in anac71 mutants, indicating SAG21 expression can be regulated by several distinct transcription factors depending on the stress condition.
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- Kelly V Evans
- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
- Investigative and Forensic Sciences Research Group, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- School of Science and the Environment, University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP), University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK.
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Arshad W, Steinbrecher T, Wilhelmsson PK, Fernandez-Pozo N, Pérez M, Mérai Z, Rensing SA, Chandler JO, Leubner-Metzger G. Aethionema arabicum dimorphic seed trait resetting during transition to seedlings. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 15:1358312. [PMID: 38525145 PMCID: PMC10957558 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1358312] [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: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 02/19/2024] [Indexed: 03/26/2024]
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The transition from germinating seeds to emerging seedlings is one of the most vulnerable plant life cycle stages. Heteromorphic diaspores (seed and fruit dispersal units) are an adaptive bet-hedging strategy to cope with spatiotemporally variable environments. While the roles and mechanisms of seedling traits have been studied in monomorphic species, which produce one type of diaspore, very little is known about seedlings in heteromorphic species. Using the dimorphic diaspore model Aethionema arabicum (Brassicaceae), we identified contrasting mechanisms in the germination responses to different temperatures of the mucilaginous seeds (M+ seed morphs), the dispersed indehiscent fruits (IND fruit morphs), and the bare non-mucilaginous M- seeds obtained from IND fruits by pericarp (fruit coat) removal. What follows the completion of germination is the pre-emergence seedling growth phase, which we investigated by comparative growth assays of early seedlings derived from the M+ seeds, bare M- seeds, and IND fruits. The dimorphic seedlings derived from M+ and M- seeds did not differ in their responses to ambient temperature and water potential. The phenotype of seedlings derived from IND fruits differed in that they had bent hypocotyls and their shoot and root growth was slower, but the biomechanical hypocotyl properties of 15-day-old seedlings did not differ between seedlings derived from germinated M+ seeds, M- seeds, or IND fruits. Comparison of the transcriptomes of the natural dimorphic diaspores, M+ seeds and IND fruits, identified 2,682 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) during late germination. During the subsequent 3 days of seedling pre-emergence growth, the number of DEGs was reduced 10-fold to 277 root DEGs and 16-fold to 164 shoot DEGs. Among the DEGs in early seedlings were hormonal regulators, in particular for auxin, ethylene, and gibberellins. Furthermore, DEGs were identified for water and ion transporters, nitrate transporter and assimilation enzymes, and cell wall remodeling protein genes encoding enzymes targeting xyloglucan and pectin. We conclude that the transcriptomes of seedlings derived from the dimorphic diaspores, M+ seeds and IND fruits, undergo transcriptional resetting during the post-germination pre-emergence growth transition phase from germinated diaspores to growing seedlings.
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- Waheed Arshad
- Seed Biology and Technology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
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- Seed Biology and Technology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
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- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Department Plant Breeding and Physiology, Institute for Mediterranean and Subtropical Horticulture “La Mayora” (IHSM-CSIC-UMA), Málaga, Spain
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- Seed Biology and Technology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
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- Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- Plant Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Seed Biology and Technology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
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- Seed Biology and Technology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
- Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Faculty of Science, Palacký University and Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Olomouc, Czechia
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Schilling F, Schumacher C, Köhl K, Sprenger H, Kopka J, Peters R, Haas M, Zuther E, Horn R. Whole-genome sequencing of tetraploid potato varieties reveals different strategies for drought tolerance. Sci Rep 2024; 14:5476. [PMID: 38443466 PMCID: PMC10914802 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-55669-3] [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: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/07/2024] Open
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Climate changes leading to increasingly longer seasonal drought periods in large parts of the world increase the necessity for breeding drought-tolerant crops. Cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum), the third most important vegetable crop worldwide, is regarded as drought-sensitive due to its shallow root architecture. Two German tetraploid potato cultivars differing in drought tolerance and their F1-progeny were evaluated under various drought scenarios. Bulked segregant analyses were combined with whole-genome sequencing (BSA-Seq) using contrasting bulks of drought-tolerant and drought-sensitive F1-clones. Applying QTLseqr, 15 QTLs comprising 588,983 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 2325 genes associated with drought stress tolerance were identified. SeqSNP analyses in an association panel of 34 mostly starch potato varieties using 1-8 SNPs for each of 188 selected genes narrowed the number of candidate genes down to 10. In addition, ent-kaurene synthase B was the only gene present under QTL 10. Eight of the identified genes (StABP1, StBRI1, StKS, StLEA, StPKSP1, StPKSP2, StYAB5, and StZOG1) address plant development, the other three genes (StFATA, StHGD and StSYP) contribute to plant protection under drought stress. Allelic variation in these genes might be explored in future breeding for drought-tolerant potato varieties.
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- Florian Schilling
- Department of Plant Genetics, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18059, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Plant Genetics, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18059, Rostock, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
- Department of Food Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Max-Dohrn-Straße 8-10, 10589, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen, Dethlingen 14, 29633, Munster, Germany
- PotatoConsult UG, Hiddinger Straße 33, 27374, Visselhövede, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
- Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Climate Protection, Henning-Von-Tresckow-Straße 2-13, 14467, Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
- Center of Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research, Robert Koch Institute, Nordufer 20, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Plant Genetics, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18059, Rostock, Germany.
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Yu J, Lee H, Cho SM, Lee Y, Kim D, Hong SG, Park SJ, Kim SG, Jin H, Lee J. Life under the snow: A year-round transcriptome analysis of Antarctic mosses in natural habitats provides insight into the molecular adaptation of plants under extreme environment. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2024; 47:976-991. [PMID: 38164069 DOI: 10.1111/pce.14793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2023] [Revised: 11/11/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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Mosses are vital components of ecosystems, exhibiting remarkable adaptability across diverse habitats from deserts to polar ice caps. Sanionia uncinata (Hedw.) Loeske, a dominant Antarctic moss survives extreme environmental condition through perennial lifecycles involving growth and dormancy alternation. This study explores genetic controls and molecular mechanisms enabling S. uncinata to cope with seasonality of the Antarctic environment. We analysed the seasonal transcriptome dynamics of S. uncinata collected monthly from February 2015 to January 2016 in King George Island, Antarctica. Findings indicate that genes involved in plant growth were predominantly upregulated in Antarctic summer, while those associated with protein synthesis and cell cycle showed marked expression during the winter-to-summer transition. Genes implicated in cellular stress and abscisic acid signalling were highly expressed in winter. Further, validation included a comparison of the Antarctic field transcriptome data with controlled environment simulation of Antarctic summer and winter temperatures, which revealed consistent gene expression patterns in both datasets. This proposes a seasonal gene regulatory model of S. uncinate to understand moss adaptation to extreme environments. Additionally, this data set is a valuable resource for predicting genetic responses to climatic fluctuations, enhancing our knowledge of Antarctic flora's resilience to global climate change.
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- Jihyeon Yu
- Division of Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
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- Division of Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
- Polar Science, University of Science and Technology, Incheon, South Korea
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- Division of Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
- Polar Science, University of Science and Technology, Incheon, South Korea
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- Division of Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
- School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Division of Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
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- Division of Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
- Polar Science, University of Science and Technology, Incheon, South Korea
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- Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
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- Division of Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
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- Division of Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
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Lin Y, She M, Zhao M, Yu H, Xiao W, Zhang Y, Li M, Chen Q, Zhang Y, Wang Y, He W, Wang X, Tang H, Luo Y. Genome-wide analysis and functional validation reveal the role of late embryogenesis abundant genes in strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) fruit ripening. BMC Genomics 2024; 25:228. [PMID: 38429694 PMCID: PMC10908092 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-024-10085-9] [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: 11/09/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 03/03/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins play important roles in plant growth and development, as well as stresses responsiveness. Nowadays, it has been found that LEAs also have function in fruit ripening. However, the comprehensive analysis on a genome-wide basis of LEA family remains limited, and the role of LEA in fruit ripening has not been fully explored yet, especially in strawberry, an economic important plant and ideal material for studying fruit ripening. RESULTS In this study, a total of 266 putative LEA proteins were identified and characterized in strawberry genome. Subcellular localization prediction indicated that they were mostly localized in chloroplast, cytoplasm and nucleus. Duplication events detection revealed that whole genome duplication or segmental was the main driver for the expansion of LEA family in strawberry. The phylogenetic analysis suggested that FaLEAs were classified into eight groups, among which, LEA2 was the largest subgroup with 179 members, followed by LEA3, dehydrin (DHN), LEA4 and SMP (seed maturation protein). The LEA1 and DHN groups were speculated to play dominant roles in strawberry fruit development and ripening, according to their larger proportion of members detected as differentially expressed genes during such process. Notably, the expression of FaLEA167 belonging to LEA1 group was altered by strawberry maturation, and inhibited by overexpression of negative regulators of ripening (a cytosolic/plastid glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, FaGAPC2 and a cytosolic pyruvate kinase, FaPKc2.2). Subsequently, overexpression of FaLEA167 significantly increased the percentage of fruit at green stage, while reduced the full red fruit proportion. In consistent, the anthocyanins content and the fruit skin color variable reflecting a range from greenness to redness (a* value) were significantly reduced. Whereas, FaLEA167 overexpression apparently up-regulated citric acid, soluble protein and malondialdehyde content, but had no obvious effects on total soluble solids, sugar, flavonoids, phenolics content and antioxidant capacity. CONCLUSIONS These findings not only provided basic information of FaLEA family for further functional research, but also revealed the involvement of FaLEA167 in negatively regulating strawberry fruit ripening, giving new insights into understanding of FaLEA functions.
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- Yuanxiu Lin
- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China
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- Hangzhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310024, Zhejiang, China
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- Hangzhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310024, Zhejiang, China
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China.
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- College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China.
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Hembach L, Niemeyer PW, Schmitt K, Zegers JMS, Scholz P, Brandt D, Dabisch JJ, Valerius O, Braus GH, Schwarzländer M, de Vries J, Rensing SA, Ischebeck T. Proteome plasticity during Physcomitrium patens spore germination - from the desiccated phase to heterotrophic growth and reconstitution of photoautotrophy. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2024; 117:1466-1486. [PMID: 38059656 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2023] [Revised: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 11/22/2023] [Indexed: 12/08/2023]
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The establishment of moss spores is considered a milestone in plant evolution. They harbor protein networks underpinning desiccation tolerance and accumulation of storage compounds that can be found already in algae and that are also utilized in seeds and pollen. Furthermore, germinating spores must produce proteins that drive the transition through heterotrophic growth to the autotrophic plant. To get insight into the plasticity of this proteome, we investigated it at five timepoints of moss (Physcomitrium patens) spore germination and in protonemata and gametophores. The comparison to previously published Arabidopsis proteome data of seedling establishment showed that not only the proteomes of spores and seeds are functionally related, but also the proteomes of germinating spores and young seedlings. We observed similarities with regard to desiccation tolerance, lipid droplet proteome composition, control of dormancy, and β-oxidation and the glyoxylate cycle. However, there were also striking differences. For example, spores lacked any obvious storage proteins. Furthermore, we did not detect homologs to the main triacylglycerol lipase in Arabidopsis seeds, SUGAR DEPENDENT1. Instead, we discovered a triacylglycerol lipase of the oil body lipase family and a lipoxygenase as being the overall most abundant proteins in spores. This finding indicates an alternative pathway for triacylglycerol degradation via oxylipin intermediates in the moss. The comparison of spores to Nicotiana tabacum pollen indicated similarities for example in regards to resistance to desiccation and hypoxia, but the overall developmental pattern did not align as in the case of seedling establishment and spore germination.
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- Lea Hembach
- Green Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology (IBBP), University of Münster, 48143, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University of Göttingen, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department for Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Genetics and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB) and Service Unit LCMS Protein Analytics, Institute for Microbiology, University of Göttingen, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB) and Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS), Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes (RDP), UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, Université de Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Plant Energy Biology, Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology (IBBP), University of Münster, 48143, Münster, Germany
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- Green Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology (IBBP), University of Münster, 48143, Münster, Germany
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- Department for Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Genetics and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB) and Service Unit LCMS Protein Analytics, Institute for Microbiology, University of Göttingen, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department for Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Genetics and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB) and Service Unit LCMS Protein Analytics, Institute for Microbiology, University of Göttingen, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Plant Energy Biology, Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology (IBBP), University of Münster, 48143, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB) and Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS), Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Plant Cell Biology, Department of Biology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Green Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology (IBBP), University of Münster, 48143, Münster, Germany
- Department of Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University of Göttingen, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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Feng X, Chen Q, Wu W, Wang J, Li G, Xu S, Shao S, Liu M, Zhong C, Wu CI, Shi S, He Z. Genomic evidence for rediploidization and adaptive evolution following the whole-genome triplication. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1635. [PMID: 38388712 PMCID: PMC10884412 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46080-7] [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: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024] Open
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Whole-genome duplication (WGD), or polyploidy, events are widespread and significant in the evolutionary history of angiosperms. However, empirical evidence for rediploidization, the major process where polyploids give rise to diploid descendants, is still lacking at the genomic level. Here we present chromosome-scale genomes of the mangrove tree Sonneratia alba and the related inland plant Lagerstroemia speciosa. Their common ancestor has experienced a whole-genome triplication (WGT) approximately 64 million years ago coinciding with a period of dramatic global climate change. Sonneratia, adapting mangrove habitats, experienced extensive chromosome rearrangements post-WGT. We observe the WGT retentions display sequence and expression divergence, suggesting potential neo- and sub-functionalization. Strong selection acting on three-copy retentions indicates adaptive value in response to new environments. To elucidate the role of ploidy changes in genome evolution, we improve a model of the polyploidization-rediploidization process based on genomic evidence, contributing to the understanding of adaptive evolution during climate change.
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- Xiao Feng
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China
- Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 518120, Shenzhen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China
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- Hainan Academy of Forestry (Hainan Academy of Mangrove), 571100, Haikou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China.
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Rendón-Luna DF, Arroyo-Mosso IA, De Luna-Valenciano H, Campos F, Segovia L, Saab-Rincón G, Cuevas-Velazquez CL, Reyes JL, Covarrubias AA. Alternative conformations of a group 4 Late Embryogenesis Abundant protein associated to its in vitro protective activity. Sci Rep 2024; 14:2770. [PMID: 38307936 PMCID: PMC10837141 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-53295-7] [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: 10/09/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/04/2024] Open
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Late Embryogenesis Abundant (LEA) proteins are a group of intrinsically disordered proteins implicated in plant responses to water deficit. In vitro studies revealed that LEA proteins protect reporter enzymes from inactivation during low water availability. Group 4 LEA proteins constitute a conserved protein family, displaying in vitro protective capabilities. Under water deficiency or macromolecular crowding, the N-terminal of these proteins adopts an alpha-helix conformation. This region has been identified as responsible for the protein in vitro protective activity. This study investigates whether the attainment of alpha-helix conformation and/or particular amino acid residues are required for the in vitro protective activity. The LEA4-5 protein from Arabidopsis thaliana was used to generate mutant proteins. The mutations altered conserved residues, deleted specific conserved regions, or introduced prolines to hinder alpha-helix formation. The results indicate that conserved residues are not essential for LEA4-5 protective function. Interestingly, the C-terminal region was found to contribute to this function. Moreover, alpha-helix conformation is necessary for the protective activity only when the C-terminal region is deleted. Overall, LEA4-5 shows the ability to adopt alternative functional conformations under the tested conditions. These findings shed light on the in vitro mechanisms by which LEA proteins protect against water deficit stress.
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- David F Rendón-Luna
- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida Universidad 2001, Colonia Chamilpa, 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida Universidad 2001, Colonia Chamilpa, 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida Universidad 2001, Colonia Chamilpa, 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
- Programa de Biología Sintética, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Colonia Chamilpa, 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida Universidad 2001, Colonia Chamilpa, 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Celular y Biocatálisis, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida Universidad 2001, Colonia Chamilpa, 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Celular y Biocatálisis, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida Universidad 2001, Colonia Chamilpa, 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Ciudad de México, México
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida Universidad 2001, Colonia Chamilpa, 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida Universidad 2001, Colonia Chamilpa, 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
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Hsiao AS. Protein Disorder in Plant Stress Adaptation: From Late Embryogenesis Abundant to Other Intrinsically Disordered Proteins. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:1178. [PMID: 38256256 PMCID: PMC10816898 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25021178] [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: 10/29/2023] [Revised: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 01/24/2024] Open
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Global climate change has caused severe abiotic and biotic stresses, affecting plant growth and food security. The mechanical understanding of plant stress responses is critical for achieving sustainable agriculture. Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are a group of proteins without unique three-dimensional structures. The environmental sensitivity and structural flexibility of IDPs contribute to the growth and developmental plasticity for sessile plants to deal with environmental challenges. This article discusses the roles of various disordered proteins in plant stress tolerance and resistance, describes the current mechanistic insights into unstructured proteins such as the disorder-to-order transition for adopting secondary structures to interact with specific partners (i.e., cellular membranes, membrane proteins, metal ions, and DNA), and elucidates the roles of liquid-liquid phase separation driven by protein disorder in stress responses. By comparing IDP studies in animal systems, this article provides conceptual principles of plant protein disorder in stress adaptation, reveals the current research gaps, and advises on the future research direction. The highlighting of relevant unanswered questions in plant protein disorder research aims to encourage more studies on these emerging topics to understand the mechanisms of action behind their stress resistance phenotypes.
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- An-Shan Hsiao
- Department of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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Luo H, Lao L, Au KS, Northrup H, He X, Forget D, Gauthier MS, Coulombe B, Bourdeau I, Shi W, Gagliardi L, Fragoso MCBV, Peng J, Wu J. ARMC5 controls the degradation of most Pol II subunits, and ARMC5 mutation increases neural tube defect risks in mice and humans. Genome Biol 2024; 25:19. [PMID: 38225631 PMCID: PMC10789052 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-023-03147-w] [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: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/17/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Neural tube defects (NTDs) are caused by genetic and environmental factors. ARMC5 is part of a novel ubiquitin ligase specific for POLR2A, the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II (Pol II). RESULTS We find that ARMC5 knockout mice have increased incidence of NTDs, such as spina bifida and exencephaly. Surprisingly, the absence of ARMC5 causes the accumulation of not only POLR2A but also most of the other 11 Pol II subunits, indicating that the degradation of the whole Pol II complex is compromised. The enlarged Pol II pool does not lead to generalized Pol II stalling or a generalized decrease in mRNA transcription. In neural progenitor cells, ARMC5 knockout only dysregulates 106 genes, some of which are known to be involved in neural tube development. FOLH1, critical in folate uptake and hence neural tube development, is downregulated in the knockout intestine. We also identify nine deleterious mutations in the ARMC5 gene in 511 patients with myelomeningocele, a severe form of spina bifida. These mutations impair the interaction between ARMC5 and Pol II and reduce Pol II ubiquitination. CONCLUSIONS Mutations in ARMC5 increase the risk of NTDs in mice and humans. ARMC5 is part of an E3 controlling the degradation of all 12 subunits of Pol II under physiological conditions. The Pol II pool size might have effects on NTD pathogenesis, and some of the effects might be via the downregulation of FOLH1. Additional mechanistic work is needed to establish the causal effect of the findings on NTD pathogenesis.
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- Hongyu Luo
- Centre de Recherche, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, QC, Canada.
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- Centre de Recherche, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
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- Centre de Recherche, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Translational Proteomics, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Translational Proteomics, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Translational Proteomics, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, QC, Canada
- Division of Endocrinology, CHUM, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
- Endocrine and Metabolic Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
- Department of Genetics and Molecular Pathology, SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia
- Endocrine and Diabetes Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
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- Unidade de Suprarrenal Disciplina de Endocrinologia E Metabologia, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Centre de Recherche, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, QC, Canada.
- Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
- Division of Nephrology, CHUM, Montreal, QC, Canada.
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Lemke MD, Woodson JD. A genetic screen for dominant chloroplast reactive oxygen species signaling mutants reveals life stage-specific singlet oxygen signaling networks. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 14:1331346. [PMID: 38273946 PMCID: PMC10809407 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1331346] [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: 10/31/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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Introduction Plants employ intricate molecular mechanisms to respond to abiotic stresses, which often lead to the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) within organelles such as chloroplasts. Such ROS can produce stress signals that regulate cellular response mechanisms. One ROS, singlet oxygen (1O2), is predominantly produced in the chloroplast during photosynthesis and can trigger chloroplast degradation, programmed cell death (PCD), and retrograde (organelle-to-nucleus) signaling. However, little is known about the molecular mechanisms involved in these signaling pathways or how many different signaling 1O2 pathways may exist. Methods The Arabidopsis thaliana plastid ferrochelatase two (fc2) mutant conditionally accumulates chloroplast 1O2, making fc2 a valuable genetic system for studying chloroplast 1O2-initiated signaling. Here, we have used activation tagging in a new forward genetic screen to identify eight dominant fc2 activation-tagged (fas) mutations that suppress chloroplast 1O2-initiated PCD. Results While 1O2-triggered PCD is blocked in all fc2 fas mutants in the adult stage, such cellular degradation in the seedling stage is blocked in only two mutants. This differential blocking of PCD suggests that life-stage-specific 1O2-response pathways exist. In addition to PCD, fas mutations generally reduce 1O2-induced retrograde signals. Furthermore, fas mutants have enhanced tolerance to excess light, a natural mechanism to produce chloroplast 1O2. However, general abiotic stress tolerance was only observed in one fc2 fas mutant (fc2 fas2). Together, this suggests that plants can employ general stress tolerance mechanisms to overcome 1O2 production but that this screen was mostly specific to 1O2 signaling. We also observed that salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonate (JA) stress hormone response marker genes were induced in 1O2-stressed fc2 and generally reduced by fas mutations, suggesting that SA and JA signaling is correlated with active 1O2 signaling and PCD. Discussion Together, this work highlights the complexity of 1O2 signaling by demonstrating that multiple pathways may exist and introduces a suite of new 1O2 signaling mutants to investigate the mechanisms controlling chloroplast-initiated degradation, PCD, and retrograde signaling.
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- The School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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Amara U, Hu J, Park SJ, Kang H. ECT12, an YTH-domain protein, is a potential mRNA m 6A reader that affects abiotic stress responses by modulating mRNA stability in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2024; 206:108255. [PMID: 38071803 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2023.108255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Revised: 11/15/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2024]
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N6-methyladenosine (m6A), the most abundant modification found in eukaryotic mRNAs, is interpreted by m6A "readers," thus playing a crucial role in regulating RNA metabolism. The YT521-B homology-domain (YTHD) proteins, also known as EVOLUTIONARILY CONSERVED C-TERMINAL REGION (ECT), are recognized as m6A reader proteins in plants and animals. Among the 13 potential YTHD family proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana, the functions of only a few members are known. In this study, we determined the function of ECT12 (YTH11) as a potential m6A reader that plays a crucial role in response to abiotic stresses. The loss-of-function ect12 mutants showed no noticeable developmental defects under normal conditions but displayed hypersensitivity to salt or dehydration stress. The salt- or dehydration-hypersensitive phenotypes were correlated with altered levels of several m6A-modified stress-responsive transcripts. Notably, the increased or decreased transcript levels were associated with each transcript's reduced or enhanced decay, respectively. Electrophoretic mobility shift and RNA-immunoprecipitation assays showed that ECT12 binds to m6A-modified RNAs both in vitro and in planta, suggesting its role as an m6A reader. Collectively, these results indicate that the potential m6A reader ECT12 regulates the stability of m6A-modified RNA transcripts, thereby facilitating the response of Arabidopsis to abiotic stresses.
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- Umme Amara
- Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
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- Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
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- Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
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- Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea.
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Meira FS, Ribeiro DG, de Campos SS, Falcão LL, Gomes ACMM, de Alencar Dusi DM, Marcellino LH, Mehta A, Scherwinski-Pereira JE. Differential expression of genes potentially related to the callogenesis and in situ hybridization of SERK gene in macaw palm (Acrocomia aculeata Jacq.) Lodd. ex Mart. PROTOPLASMA 2024; 261:89-101. [PMID: 37482557 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-023-01881-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 07/03/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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For the purpose of understanding the molecular processes triggered during callus formation in macaw palm, the expression of seven genes potentially involved in this process, identified in previous studies and from the literature, was investigated by RT-qPCR. In addition, in situ hybridization of the SERK gene was performed. Leaf tissues from adult plants from two macaw palm accession were inoculated in a medium combined with Picloram at a concentration of 450 μM to induce callus. The expression analysis was performed from leaf samples from two accessions of different origins (Municipalities of Tiros, MG, and Buriti Vermelho, DF, Brazil), which are characterized as non-responsive (NR) and responsive (R), respectively. The material was collected before callus induction (0 DAI, initial day) and 120 days after callus induction (120 DAI). Genes related to development (SERK, OASA, EF1, ANN1) and stress (LEA, CAT2, and MDAR5) were evaluated. The results obtained showed that all the genes involved with the development had their expressions downregulated at 0 DAI when the accession R was compared with the accession NR. On the other hand, it was possible to observe that these genes were upregulated at 120 DAI. The LEA stress gene showed a tendency to increase expression in the NR accession, while the R accession showed decreased expression and the CAT2 and MDAR5 genes showed upregulation in both accessions. In situ hybridization showed SERK transcripts in the vascular bundles, indicating the expression of SERK in this region, in addition to its expression in calluses. The results obtained in this study support our hypothesis that the regulation of genes involved in the control of oxidative stress and development is crucial for the formation of calluses in macaw palm.
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- Filipe Sathler Meira
- Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Brasília, DF, 70910-900, Brazil
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- Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Brasília, DF, 70910-900, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Horticultura e Silvicultura, Porto Alegre, RS, 91540-000, Brazil
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- Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Parque Estação Biológica, PqEB, Brasília, 70770-917, Brazil
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- Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Parque Estação Biológica, PqEB, Brasília, 70770-917, Brazil
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- Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Parque Estação Biológica, PqEB, Brasília, 70770-917, Brazil
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Li XH, Yu CWH, Gomez-Navarro N, Stancheva V, Zhu H, Murthy A, Wozny M, Malhotra K, Johnson CM, Blackledge M, Santhanam B, Liu W, Huang J, Freund SMV, Miller EA, Babu MM. Dynamic conformational changes of a tardigrade group-3 late embryogenesis abundant protein modulate membrane biophysical properties. PNAS NEXUS 2024; 3:pgae006. [PMID: 38269070 PMCID: PMC10808001 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae006] [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: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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A number of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) encoded in stress-tolerant organisms, such as tardigrade, can confer fitness advantage and abiotic stress tolerance when heterologously expressed. Tardigrade-specific disordered proteins including the cytosolic-abundant heat-soluble proteins are proposed to confer stress tolerance through vitrification or gelation, whereas evolutionarily conserved IDPs in tardigrades may contribute to stress tolerance through other biophysical mechanisms. In this study, we characterized the mechanism of action of an evolutionarily conserved, tardigrade IDP, HeLEA1, which belongs to the group-3 late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) protein family. HeLEA1 homologs are found across different kingdoms of life. HeLEA1 is intrinsically disordered in solution but shows a propensity for helical structure across its entire sequence. HeLEA1 interacts with negatively charged membranes via dynamic disorder-to-helical transition, mainly driven by electrostatic interactions. Membrane interaction of HeLEA1 is shown to ameliorate excess surface tension and lipid packing defects. HeLEA1 localizes to the mitochondrial matrix when expressed in yeast and interacts with model membranes mimicking inner mitochondrial membrane. Yeast expressing HeLEA1 shows enhanced tolerance to hyperosmotic stress under nonfermentative growth and increased mitochondrial membrane potential. Evolutionary analysis suggests that although HeLEA1 homologs have diverged their sequences to localize to different subcellular organelles, all homologs maintain a weak hydrophobic moment that is characteristic of weak and reversible membrane interaction. We suggest that such dynamic and weak protein-membrane interaction buffering alterations in lipid packing could be a conserved strategy for regulating membrane properties and represent a general biophysical solution for stress tolerance across the domains of life.
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- Xiao-Han Li
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Institut de Biologie Structurale, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
- Department of Structural Biology, Center of Excellence for Data-Driven Discovery, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
- Department of Structural Biology, Center of Excellence for Data-Driven Discovery, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
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Zaman S, Shen J, Wang S, Song D, Wang H, Ding S, Pang X, Wang M, Wang Y, Ding Z. Effect of Shading on Physiological Attributes and Proteomic Analysis of Tea during Low Temperatures. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 13:63. [PMID: 38202371 PMCID: PMC10780538 DOI: 10.3390/plants13010063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2023] [Revised: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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Shading is an important technique to protect tea plantations under abiotic stresses. In this study, we analyzed the effect of shading (SD60% shade vs. SD0% no-shade) on the physiological attributes and proteomic analysis of tea leaves in November and December during low temperatures. The results revealed that shading protected the tea plants, including their soil plant analysis development (SPAD), photochemical efficiency (Fv/Fm), and nitrogen content (N), in November and December. The proteomics analysis of tea leaves was determined using tandem mass tags (TMT) technology and a total of 7263 proteins were accumulated. Further, statistical analysis and the fold change of significant proteins (FC < 0.67 and FC > 1.5 p < 0.05) revealed 14 DAPs, 11 increased and 3 decreased, in November (nCK_vs_nSD60), 20 DAPs, 7 increased and 13 decreased, in December (dCK_vs_dSD60), and 12 DAPs, 3 increased and 9 decreased, in both November and December (nCK_vs_nSD60). These differentially accumulated proteins (DAPs) were dehydrins (DHNs), late-embryogenesis abundant (LEA), thaumatin-like proteins (TLPs), glutathione S-transferase (GSTs), gibberellin-regulated proteins (GAs), proline-rich proteins (PRPs), cold and drought proteins (CORA-like), and early light-induced protein 1, which were found in the cytoplasm, nucleus, chloroplast, extra cell, and plasma membrane, and functioned in catalytic, cellular, stimulus-response, and metabolic pathways. In conclusion, the proliferation of key proteins was triggered by translation and posttranslational modifications, which might sustain membrane permeability in tea cellular compartments and could be responsible for tea protection under shading during low temperatures. This study aimed to investigate the impact of the conventional breeding technique (shading) and modern molecular technologies (proteomics) on tea plants, for the development and protection of new tea cultivars.
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- Shah Zaman
- Tea Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China; (S.Z.); (J.S.); (S.W.)
- School of Tea and Coffee & School of Bioinformatics and Engineering, Pu’er University, 6 Xueyuan Road, Pu’er 665000, China
- International Joint Laboratory of Digital Protection and Germplasm Innovation and Application of China-Laos Tea Tree Resources in Yunnan Province, Pu’er University, 6 Xueyuan Road, Pu’er 665000, China
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- Tea Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China; (S.Z.); (J.S.); (S.W.)
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- Tea Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China; (S.Z.); (J.S.); (S.W.)
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- Rizhao Tea Research Institute, Rizhao 276800, China; (D.S.); (H.W.); (S.D.); (X.P.); (M.W.)
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- Rizhao Tea Research Institute, Rizhao 276800, China; (D.S.); (H.W.); (S.D.); (X.P.); (M.W.)
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- Rizhao Tea Research Institute, Rizhao 276800, China; (D.S.); (H.W.); (S.D.); (X.P.); (M.W.)
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- Rizhao Tea Research Institute, Rizhao 276800, China; (D.S.); (H.W.); (S.D.); (X.P.); (M.W.)
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- Rizhao Tea Research Institute, Rizhao 276800, China; (D.S.); (H.W.); (S.D.); (X.P.); (M.W.)
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- Tea Research Institute, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China;
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- Tea Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China; (S.Z.); (J.S.); (S.W.)
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Zhao Y, Hao Y, Dong Z, Tang W, Wang X, Li J, Wang L, Hu Y, Fang L, Guan X, Gu F, Liu Z, Zhang Z. Identification and expression analysis of LEA gene family members in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). FEBS Open Bio 2023; 13:2246-2262. [PMID: 37907961 PMCID: PMC10699114 DOI: 10.1002/2211-5463.13718] [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: 04/03/2023] [Revised: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 11/02/2023] Open
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Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is an economically important crop containing capsaicinoids in the seed and placenta, which has various culinary, medical, and industrial applications. Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins are a large group of hydrophilic proteins participating in the plant stress response and seed development. However, to date there have been no genome-wide analyses of the LEA gene family in pepper. In the present study, 82 LEA genes were identified in the C. annuum genome and classified into nine subfamilies. Most CaLEA genes contain few introns (≤ 2) and are unevenly distributed across 10 chromosomes. Eight pairs of tandem duplication genes and two pairs of segmental duplication genes were identified in the LEA gene family; these duplicated genes were highly conserved and may have performed similar functions during evolution. Expression profile analysis indicated that CaLEA genes exhibited different tissue expression patterns, especially during embryonic development and stress response, particularly in cold stress. Three out of five CaLEA genes showed induced expression upon cold treatment. In summary, we have comprehensively reviewed the LEA gene family in pepper, offering a new perspective on the evolution of this family.
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- Yongyan Zhao
- Hainan InstituteZhejiang UniversitySanyaChina
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources, Institute of Crop Science, Plant Precision Breeding Academy, College of Agriculture and BiotechnologyZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Hainan InstituteZhejiang UniversitySanyaChina
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources, Institute of Crop Science, Plant Precision Breeding Academy, College of Agriculture and BiotechnologyZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Hainan InstituteZhejiang UniversitySanyaChina
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources, Institute of Crop Science, Plant Precision Breeding Academy, College of Agriculture and BiotechnologyZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Hainan InstituteZhejiang UniversitySanyaChina
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources, Institute of Crop Science, Plant Precision Breeding Academy, College of Agriculture and BiotechnologyZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Hainan InstituteZhejiang UniversitySanyaChina
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources, Institute of Crop Science, Plant Precision Breeding Academy, College of Agriculture and BiotechnologyZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Hainan InstituteZhejiang UniversitySanyaChina
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources, Institute of Crop Science, Plant Precision Breeding Academy, College of Agriculture and BiotechnologyZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Hainan InstituteZhejiang UniversitySanyaChina
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources, Institute of Crop Science, Plant Precision Breeding Academy, College of Agriculture and BiotechnologyZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Hainan InstituteZhejiang UniversitySanyaChina
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources, Institute of Crop Science, Plant Precision Breeding Academy, College of Agriculture and BiotechnologyZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Hainan InstituteZhejiang UniversitySanyaChina
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources, Institute of Crop Science, Plant Precision Breeding Academy, College of Agriculture and BiotechnologyZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Spice and Beverage Research Institute, Sanya Research InstituteChinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences/Hainan Key Laboratory for Biosafety Monitoring and Molecular Breeding in Off‐Season Reproduction RegionsSanyaChina
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- Tropical Crops Genetic Resources InstituteChinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement in Southern China, Ministry of AgricultureHaikouChina
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Liu W, Thapa P, Park SW. RD29A and RD29B rearrange genetic and epigenetic markers in priming systemic defense responses against drought and salinity. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2023; 337:111895. [PMID: 37838156 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2023.111895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Revised: 09/18/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/16/2023]
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Drought has become the most important limiting factor to crop productions. Research thus far has been devoted to identifying drought-responsive genes (DRGs) via breeding and engineering approaches. Still, these efforts have not resulted in a solution to combat drought's effects because the ectopic expression of most DRGs causes adverse effects that reduce plant growth and yields. Lately, we discovered that two DRGs, Response to Desiccation (RD)29A and RD29B, induced by Paenibacillus polymyxa CR1, a plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium capable of priming drought tolerance and concurrently stimulating plant growth, play pivotal roles in defense responses against drought. In this study, we employ the ChlP and qRT-PCR analyses and further clarify that P. polymyxa CR1 reformats the chromatin/transcriptional memory of RD29s, positioned as upstream controllers that fine-tune the temporal dynamic of stress-regulating transcription factors (TFs) in elaborating induced systemic drought tolerance without growth penalties. Two genes coordinate the upregulation of NAC TFs, while feedback inhibiting CBF TFs, which regulate downstream DRG expressions. This supports that RD29s are unique, feasible transgene candidates for improving plants' survival capacity in both optimal and drought conditions. However, the mode of action of RD29A and RD29B are partly independent, exerting distinct roles in disparate ecological states. When subjected to increasing NaCl concentrations, the KO mutant of RD29A (rd29a) displayed enhanced tolerance compared to WT and rd29b plants, proposing that RD29B, but not RD29A, a key player in conferring WT-like tolerance to salinity stress; further studies will be needed to optimize/maximize their applications in engineering for-profit drought and/or broad-spectrum stress tolerant crops.
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- Wenshan Liu
- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.
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Boanares D, Da-Silva CJ, Costa KJA, Filgueira JPPS, Salles MLOC, Neto LP, Gastauer M, Valadares R, Medeiros PS, Ramos SJ, Caldeira CF. Exogenous Nitric Oxide Alleviates Water Deficit and Increases the Seed Production of an Endemic Amazonian Canga Grass. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:16676. [PMID: 38068998 PMCID: PMC10706291 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242316676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2023] [Revised: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
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Open pit mining can cause loss in different ecosystems, including damage to habitats of rare and endemic species. Understanding the biology of these species is fundamental for their conservation, and to assist in decision-making. Sporobolus multiramosus is an annual grass endemic to the Amazon canga ecosystems, which comprise rocky outcrop vegetation covering one of the world's largest iron ore reserves. Here, we evaluated whether nitric oxide aids S. multiramosus in coping with water shortages and examined the physiological processes behind these adaptations. nitric oxide application improved the water status, photosynthetic efficiency, biomass production, and seed production and germination of S. multiramosus under water deficit conditions. These enhancements were accompanied by adjustments in leaf and root anatomy, including changes in stomata density and size and root endodermis thickness and vascular cylinder diameter. Proteomic analysis revealed that nitric oxide promoted the activation of several proteins involved in the response to environmental stress and flower and fruit development. Overall, the results suggest that exogenous nitric oxide has the potential to enhance the growth and productivity of S. multiramosus. Enhancements in seed productivity have significant implications for conservation initiatives and can be applied to seed production areas, particularly for the restoration of native ecosystems.
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- Daniela Boanares
- Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém 66055-090, PA, Brazil; (D.B.); (K.J.A.C.); (J.P.P.S.F.); (M.L.O.C.S.); (M.G.); (R.V.); (P.S.M.); (S.J.R.)
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- Department of Horticulture Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609, USA;
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- Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém 66055-090, PA, Brazil; (D.B.); (K.J.A.C.); (J.P.P.S.F.); (M.L.O.C.S.); (M.G.); (R.V.); (P.S.M.); (S.J.R.)
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- Department of Biology, Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Jequié 45083-900, BA, Brazil;
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- Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém 66055-090, PA, Brazil; (D.B.); (K.J.A.C.); (J.P.P.S.F.); (M.L.O.C.S.); (M.G.); (R.V.); (P.S.M.); (S.J.R.)
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- Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém 66055-090, PA, Brazil; (D.B.); (K.J.A.C.); (J.P.P.S.F.); (M.L.O.C.S.); (M.G.); (R.V.); (P.S.M.); (S.J.R.)
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- Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém 66055-090, PA, Brazil; (D.B.); (K.J.A.C.); (J.P.P.S.F.); (M.L.O.C.S.); (M.G.); (R.V.); (P.S.M.); (S.J.R.)
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- Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém 66055-090, PA, Brazil; (D.B.); (K.J.A.C.); (J.P.P.S.F.); (M.L.O.C.S.); (M.G.); (R.V.); (P.S.M.); (S.J.R.)
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- Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém 66055-090, PA, Brazil; (D.B.); (K.J.A.C.); (J.P.P.S.F.); (M.L.O.C.S.); (M.G.); (R.V.); (P.S.M.); (S.J.R.)
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Zhou C, Niu S, El-Kassaby YA, Li W. Genome-wide identification of late embryogenesis abundant protein family and their key regulatory network in Pinus tabuliformis cold acclimation. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 43:1964-1985. [PMID: 37565812 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpad095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Revised: 07/16/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/12/2023]
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Cold acclimation is a crucial biological process that enables conifers to overwinter safely. The late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) protein family plays a pivotal role in enhancing freezing tolerance during this process. Despite its importance, the identification, molecular functions and regulatory networks of the LEA protein family have not been extensively studied in conifers or gymnosperms. Pinus tabuliformis, a conifer with high ecological and economic values and with high-quality genome sequence, is an ideal candidate for such studies. Here, a total of 104 LEA genes were identified from P. tabuliformis, and we renamed them according to their subfamily group: PtLEA1-PtLEA92 (group LEA1-LEA6), PtSMP1-PtSMP6 (group seed maturation protein) and PtDHN1-PtDHN6 (group Dehydrin). While the sequence structure of P. tabuliformis LEA genes are conserved, their physicochemical properties exhibit unique characteristics within different subfamily groupings. Notably, the abundance of low-temperature responsive elements in PtLEA genes was observed. Using annual rhythm and temperature gradient transcriptome data, PtLEA22 was identified as a key gene that responds to low-temperature induction while conforming to the annual cycle of cold acclimation. Overexpression of PtLEA22 enhanced Arabidopsis freezing tolerance. Furthermore, several transcription factors potentially co-expressed with PtLEA22 were validated using yeast one-hybrid and dual-luciferase assays, revealing that PtDREB1 could directly bind PtLEA22 promoter to positively regulate its expression. These findings reveal the genome-wide characterization of P. tabuliformis LEA genes and their importance in the cold acclimation, while providing a theoretical basis for studying the molecular mechanisms of cold acclimation in conifers.
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- Chengcheng Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Research Center of Tree Breeding and Ecological Restoration, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, 85 Qinghua East Road, Beijing, 100083, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Research Center of Tree Breeding and Ecological Restoration, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, 85 Qinghua East Road, Beijing, 100083, China
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- Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Research Center of Tree Breeding and Ecological Restoration, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, 85 Qinghua East Road, Beijing, 100083, China
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Zhang Y, Zhang X, Zhu L, Wang L, Zhang H, Zhang X, Xu S, Xue J. Identification of the Maize LEA Gene Family and Its Relationship with Kernel Dehydration. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:3674. [PMID: 37960031 PMCID: PMC10647770 DOI: 10.3390/plants12213674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2023] [Revised: 10/21/2023] [Accepted: 10/22/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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Maize, the most widely planted and highest yielding of the three major crops in the world, requires the development and breeding of new varieties to accommodate the shift towards mechanized harvesting. However, the moisture content of kernels during harvest poses a significant challenge to mechanized harvesting, leading to seed breakage and increased storage costs. Previous studies highlighted the importance of LEA (Late Embryogenesis Abundant) members in regulating kernel dehydration. In this study, we aimed to gain a better understanding of the relationship between the LEA family and grain dehydration in maize. Through expression pattern analysis of maize, we identified 52 LEA genes (ZmLEAs) distributed across 10 chromosomes, organized into seven subgroups based on phylogenetic analysis, gene structure, and conserved motifs. Evolutionary and selective pressure analysis revealed that the amplification of ZmLEA genes primarily resulted from whole-genome or fragment replication events, with strong purifying selection effects during evolution. Furthermore, the transcriptome data of kernels of two maize inbred lines with varying dehydration rates at different developmental stages showed that 14 ZmLEA genes were expressed differentially in the two inbreds. This suggested that the ZmLEA genes might participate in regulating the kernel dehydration rate (KDR) in maize. Overall, this study enhances our understanding of the ZmLEA family and provides a foundation for further research into its role in regulating genes associated with grain dehydration in maize.
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Maize in Arid Area of Northwest Region, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.); (L.W.); (H.Z.); (X.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Maize in Arid Area of Northwest Region, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.); (L.W.); (H.Z.); (X.Z.)
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Guo B, Zhang J, Yang C, Dong L, Ye H, Valliyodan B, Nguyen HT, Song L. The Late Embryogenesis Abundant Proteins in Soybean: Identification, Expression Analysis, and the Roles of GmLEA4_19 in Drought Stress. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:14834. [PMID: 37834282 PMCID: PMC10573439 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241914834] [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: 09/07/2023] [Revised: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023] Open
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Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins play important roles in regulating plant growth and responses to various abiotic stresses. In this research, a genome-wide survey was conducted to recognize the LEA genes in Glycine max. A total of 74 GmLEA was identified and classified into nine subfamilies based on their conserved domains and the phylogenetic analysis. Subcellular localization, the duplication of genes, gene structure, the conserved motif, and the prediction of cis-regulatory elements and tissue expression pattern were then conducted to characterize GmLEAs. The expression profile analysis indicated that the expression of several GmLEAs was a response to drought and salt stress. The co-expression-based gene network analysis suggested that soybean LEA proteins may exert regulatory effects through the metabolic pathways. We further explored GnLEA4_19 function in Arabidopsis and the results suggests that overexpressed GmLEA4_19 in Arabidopsis increased plant height under mild or serious drought stress. Moreover, the overexpressed GmLEA4_19 soybean also showed a drought tolerance phenotype. These results indicated that GmLEA4_19 plays an important role in the tolerance to drought and will contribute to the development of the soybean transgenic with enhanced drought tolerance and better yield. Taken together, this study provided insight for better understanding the biological roles of LEA genes in soybean.
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- Binhui Guo
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, The Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (B.G.); (J.Z.); (C.Y.); (L.D.)
- Zhongshan Biological Breeding Laboratory, No. 50 Zhongling Street, Nanjing 210014, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, The Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (B.G.); (J.Z.); (C.Y.); (L.D.)
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, The Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (B.G.); (J.Z.); (C.Y.); (L.D.)
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, The Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (B.G.); (J.Z.); (C.Y.); (L.D.)
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- Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA; (H.Y.); (H.T.N.)
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- Department of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Lincoln University, Jefferson City, MO 65101, USA;
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- Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA; (H.Y.); (H.T.N.)
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, The Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (B.G.); (J.Z.); (C.Y.); (L.D.)
- Zhongshan Biological Breeding Laboratory, No. 50 Zhongling Street, Nanjing 210014, China
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Van de Poel B, de Vries J. Evolution of ethylene as an abiotic stress hormone in streptophytes. ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2023; 214:105456. [PMID: 37780400 PMCID: PMC10518463 DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2023.105456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 07/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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All land plants modulate their growth and physiology through intricate signaling cascades. The majority of these are at least modulated-and often triggered-by phytohormones. Over the past decade, it has become apparent that some phytohormones have an evolutionary origin that runs deeper than plant terrestrialization-many emerged in the streptophyte algal progenitors of land plants. Ethylene is such a case. Here we synthesize the current knowledge on the evolution of the phytohormone ethylene and speculate about its deeply conserved role in adjusting stress responses of streptophytes for more than half a billion years of evolution.
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- Bram Van de Poel
- Molecular Plant Hormone Physiology lab, Division of Crop Biotechnics, Department of Biosystems, University of Leuven, Willem de Croylaan 42, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
- KU Leuven Plant Institute (LPI), University of Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 31, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- University of Goettingen, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Goldschmidtstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
- University of Goettingen, Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS), Goldschmidstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
- University of Goettingen, Goettingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Goldschmidtstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
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Field S, Jang GJ, Dean C, Strader LC, Rhee SY. Plants use molecular mechanisms mediated by biomolecular condensates to integrate environmental cues with development. THE PLANT CELL 2023; 35:3173-3186. [PMID: 36879427 PMCID: PMC10473230 DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koad062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2022] [Revised: 02/01/2023] [Accepted: 02/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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This review highlights recent literature on biomolecular condensates in plant development and discusses challenges for fully dissecting their functional roles. Plant developmental biology has been inundated with descriptive examples of biomolecular condensate formation, but it is only recently that mechanistic understanding has been forthcoming. Here, we discuss recent examples of potential roles biomolecular condensates play at different stages of the plant life cycle. We group these examples based on putative molecular functions, including sequestering interacting components, enhancing dwell time, and interacting with cytoplasmic biophysical properties in response to environmental change. We explore how these mechanisms could modulate plant development in response to environmental inputs and discuss challenges and opportunities for further research into deciphering molecular mechanisms to better understand the diverse roles that biomolecular condensates exert on life.
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- Sterling Field
- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Dadras A, Fürst-Jansen JMR, Darienko T, Krone D, Scholz P, Sun S, Herrfurth C, Rieseberg TP, Irisarri I, Steinkamp R, Hansen M, Buschmann H, Valerius O, Braus GH, Hoecker U, Feussner I, Mutwil M, Ischebeck T, de Vries S, Lorenz M, de Vries J. Environmental gradients reveal stress hubs pre-dating plant terrestrialization. NATURE PLANTS 2023; 9:1419-1438. [PMID: 37640935 PMCID: PMC10505561 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-023-01491-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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Plant terrestrialization brought forth the land plants (embryophytes). Embryophytes account for most of the biomass on land and evolved from streptophyte algae in a singular event. Recent advances have unravelled the first full genomes of the closest algal relatives of land plants; among the first such species was Mesotaenium endlicherianum. Here we used fine-combed RNA sequencing in tandem with a photophysiological assessment on Mesotaenium exposed to a continuous range of temperature and light cues. Our data establish a grid of 42 different conditions, resulting in 128 transcriptomes and ~1.5 Tbp (~9.9 billion reads) of data to study the combinatory effects of stress response using clustering along gradients. Mesotaenium shares with land plants major hubs in genetic networks underpinning stress response and acclimation. Our data suggest that lipid droplet formation and plastid and cell wall-derived signals have denominated molecular programmes since more than 600 million years of streptophyte evolution-before plants made their first steps on land.
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- Armin Dadras
- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Campus Institute Data Science, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Department of Plant Biochemistry, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Green Biotechnology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Department of Plant Biochemistry, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Goettingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, Service Unit for Metabolomics and Lipidomics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Campus Institute Data Science, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Section Phylogenomics, Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Museum of Nature, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute for Plant Sciences and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences, Biocenter, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Faculty of Applied Computer Sciences and Biosciences, Section Biotechnology and Chemistry, Molecular Biotechnology, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Mittweida, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences and Service Unit LCMS Protein Analytics, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences and Service Unit LCMS Protein Analytics, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute for Plant Sciences and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences, Biocenter, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Department of Plant Biochemistry, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Goettingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, Service Unit for Metabolomics and Lipidomics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Goettingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, Department of Plant Biochemistry, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Green Biotechnology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Department of Experimental Phycology and SAG Culture Collection of Algae, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.
- Campus Institute Data Science, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.
- Goettingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.
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Fehér A. A Common Molecular Signature Indicates the Pre-Meristematic State of Plant Calli. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:13122. [PMID: 37685925 PMCID: PMC10488067 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241713122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2023] [Revised: 08/20/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023] Open
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In response to different degrees of mechanical injury, certain plant cells re-enter the division cycle to provide cells for tissue replenishment, tissue rejoining, de novo organ formation, and/or wound healing. The intermediate tissue formed by the dividing cells is called a callus. Callus formation can also be induced artificially in vitro by wounding and/or hormone (auxin and cytokinin) treatments. The callus tissue can be maintained in culture, providing starting material for de novo organ or embryo regeneration and thus serving as the basis for many plant biotechnology applications. Due to the biotechnological importance of callus cultures and the scientific interest in the developmental flexibility of somatic plant cells, the initial molecular steps of callus formation have been studied in detail. It was revealed that callus initiation can follow various ways, depending on the organ from which it develops and the inducer, but they converge on a seemingly identical tissue. It is not known, however, if callus is indeed a special tissue with a defined gene expression signature, whether it is a malformed meristem, or a mass of so-called "undifferentiated" cells, as is mostly believed. In this paper, I review the various mechanisms of plant regeneration that may converge on callus initiation. I discuss the role of plant hormones in the detour of callus formation from normal development. Finally, I compare various Arabidopsis gene expression datasets obtained a few days, two weeks, or several years after callus induction and identify 21 genes, including genes of key transcription factors controlling cell division and differentiation in meristematic regions, which were upregulated in all investigated callus samples. I summarize the information available on all 21 genes that point to the pre-meristematic nature of callus tissues underlying their wide regeneration potential.
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- Attila Fehér
- Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, 62 Temesvári Körút, 6726 Szeged, Hungary; or
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Szeged, 52 Közép Fasor, 6726 Szeged, Hungary
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Wang W, Liu W, Wang B. Identification of CDK gene family and functional analysis of CqCDK15 under drought and salt stress in quinoa. BMC Genomics 2023; 24:461. [PMID: 37592203 PMCID: PMC10433607 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-023-09570-4] [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: 05/04/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023] Open
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as one of the oldest cultivated crops in the world, quinoa has been widely valued for its rich nutritional value and green health. In this study, 22 CDK genes (CqCDK01-CqCDK22) were identified from quinoa genome using bioinformatics method. The number of amino acids was 173-811, the molecular weight was 19,554.89 Da-91,375.70 Da, and the isoelectric point was 4.57-9.77. The phylogenetic tree divided 21 CqCDK genes into six subfamilies, the gene structure showed that 12 (54.5%) CqCDK genes (CqCDK03, CqCDK04, CqCDK05, CqCDK06, CqCDK07, CqCDK11, CqCDK14, CqCDK16, CqCDK18, CqCDK19, CqCDK20 and CqCDK21) had UTR regions at 5' and 3' ends. Each CDK protein had different motifs (3-9 motifs), but the genes with the same motifs were located in the same branch. Promoter analysis revealed 41 cis-regulatory elements related to plant hormones, abiotic stresses, tissue-specific expression and photoresponse. The results of real-time fluorescence quantitative analysis showed that the expression level of some CDK genes was higher under drought and salt stress, which indicated that CDK genes could help plants to resist adverse environmental effects. Subcellular localization showed that CqCDK15 gene was localized to the nucleus and cytoplasm, and transgenic plants overexpressing CqCDK15 gene showed higher drought and salt tolerance compared to the controls. Therefore, CDK genes are closely related to quinoa stress resistance. In this study, the main functions of quinoa CDK gene family and its expression level in different tissues and organs were analyzed in detail, which provided some theoretical support for quinoa stress-resistant breeding. Meanwhile, this study has important implications for further understanding the function of the CDK gene family in quinoa and our understanding of the CDK family in vascular plant.
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- Wangtian Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, 730070, China
- College of life science and technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, 730070, China
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- Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, 730070, China.
- College of life science and technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, 730070, China.
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Raja V, Qadir SU, Kumar N, Alsahli AA, Rinklebe J, Ahmad P. Melatonin and strigolactone mitigate chromium toxicity through modulation of ascorbate-glutathione pathway and gene expression in tomato. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2023; 201:107872. [PMID: 37478726 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2023.107872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2023] [Revised: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023]
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Chromium (Cr) is considered one of the most hazardous metal contaminant reducing crop production and putting human health at risk. Phytohormones are known to regulate chromium stress, however, the function of melatonin and strigolactones in Chromium stress tolerance in tomato is rarely investigated. Here we investigated the potential role of melatonin (ML) and strigolactone (SL) on mitigating Chromium toxicity in tomato. With exposure to 300 μM Cr stress a remarkable decline in growth (63.01%), biomass yield (50.25)%, Pigment content (24.32%), photosynthesis, gas exchange and Physico-biochemical attributes of tomato was observed. Cr treatment also resulted in oxidative stress closely associated with higher H2O2 generation (215.66%), Lipid peroxidation (50.29%), electrolyte leakage (440.01%) and accumulation of osmolytes like proline and glycine betine. Moreover, Cr toxicity up-regulated the transcriptional expression profiles of antioxidant, stress related and metal transporter genes and down-regulated the genes related to photosynthesis. The application of ML and SL alleviated the Cr induced phytotoxic effects on photosynthetic pigments, gas exchange parameters and restored growth of tomato plants. ML and SL supplementation induced plant defense system via enhanced regulation of antioxidant enzymes, ascorbate and glutathione pool and transcriptional regulation of several genes. The coordinated regulation of antioxidant and glyoxalase systems expressively suppressed the oxidative stress. Hence, ML and SL application might be considered as an effective approach for minimizing Cr uptake and its detrimental effects in tomato plants grown in contaminated soils. The study may also provide new insights into the role of transcriptional regulation in the protection against heavy metal toxicity.
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- Vaseem Raja
- University Centre for Research and Development, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, Punjab, 140413, India
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- Department of Environmental Sciences Govt. Degree College for Women, Udhampur, 182101, India
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- University Centre for Research and Development, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, Punjab, 140413, India
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- Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- University of Wuppertal, School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Institute of Foundation Engineering, Water and Waste Management, Laboratory of Soil and Groundwater Management, Pauluskirchstraße 7, 42285, Wuppertal, Germany
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- Department of Botany, GDC, Pulwama, 192301, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
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Aziz MA, Sabeem M, Kutty MS, Rahman S, Alneyadi MK, Alkaabi AB, Almeqbali ES, Brini F, Vijayan R, Masmoudi K. Enzyme stabilization and thermotolerance function of the intrinsically disordered LEA2 proteins from date palm. Sci Rep 2023; 13:11878. [PMID: 37482543 PMCID: PMC10363547 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-38426-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023] Open
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In date palm, the LEA2 genes are of abundance with sixty-two members that are nearly all ubiquitous. However, their functions and interactions with potential target molecules are largely unexplored. In this study, five date palm LEA2 genes, PdLEA2.2, PdLEA2.3, PdLEA2.4, PdLEA2.6, and PdLEA2.7 were cloned, sequenced, and three of them, PdLEA2.2, PdLEA2.3, and PdLEA2.4 were functionally characterized for their effects on the thermostability of two distinct enzymes, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and β-glucosidase (bglG) in vitro. Overall, PdLEA2.3 and PdLEA2.4 were moderately hydrophilic, PdLEA2.7 was slightly hydrophobic, and PdLEA2.2 and PdLEA2.6 were neither. Sequence and structure prediction indicated the presence of a stretch of hydrophobic residues near the N-terminus that could potentially form a transmembrane helix in PdLEA2.2, PdLEA2.4, PdLEA2.6 and PdLEA2.7. In addition to the transmembrane helix, secondary and tertiary structures prediction showed the presence of a disordered region followed by a stacked β-sheet region in all the PdLEA2 proteins. Moreover, three purified recombinant PdLEA2 proteins were produced in vitro, and their presence in the LDH enzymatic reaction enhanced the activity and reduced the aggregate formation of LDH under the heat stress. In the bglG enzymatic assays, PdLEA2 proteins further displayed their capacity to preserve and stabilize the bglG enzymatic activity.
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- Mughair Abdul Aziz
- Department of Integrative Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, United Arab, Emirates University, Al‑Ain, Abu‑Dhabi, UAE
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- Department of Integrative Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, United Arab, Emirates University, Al‑Ain, Abu‑Dhabi, UAE
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- Department of Vegetable Science, College of Agriculture, Kerala Agricultural University, Vellanikkara, Thrissur, 680656, India
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- Department of Integrative Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, United Arab, Emirates University, Al‑Ain, Abu‑Dhabi, UAE
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- Department of Integrative Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, United Arab, Emirates University, Al‑Ain, Abu‑Dhabi, UAE
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- Department of Integrative Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, United Arab, Emirates University, Al‑Ain, Abu‑Dhabi, UAE
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- Department of Integrative Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, United Arab, Emirates University, Al‑Ain, Abu‑Dhabi, UAE
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- Biotechnology and Plant Improvement Laboratory, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax (CBS)/ University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al‑Ain, Abu‑Dhabi, UAE
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- Department of Integrative Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, United Arab, Emirates University, Al‑Ain, Abu‑Dhabi, UAE.
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Draga S, Gabelli G, Palumbo F, Barcaccia G. Genome-Wide Datasets of Chicories ( Cichorium intybus L.) for Marker-Assisted Crop Breeding Applications: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:11663. [PMID: 37511422 PMCID: PMC10380310 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241411663] [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: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Cichorium intybus L. is the most economically important species of its genus and among the most important of the Asteraceae family. In chicory, many linkage maps have been produced, several sets of mapped and unmapped markers have been developed, and dozens of genes linked to traits of agronomic interest have been investigated. This treasure trove of information, properly cataloged and organized, is of pivotal importance for the development of superior commercial products with valuable agronomic potential in terms of yield and quality, including reduced bitter taste and increased inulin production, as well as resistance or tolerance to pathogens and resilience to environmental stresses. For this reason, a systematic review was conducted based on the scientific literature published in chicory during 1980-2023. Based on the results obtained from the meta-analysis, we created two consensus maps capable of supporting marker-assisted breeding (MAB) and marker-assisted selection (MAS) programs. By taking advantage of the recently released genome of C. intybus, we built a 639 molecular marker-based consensus map collecting all the available mapped and unmapped SNP and SSR loci available for this species. In the following section, after summarizing and discussing all the genes investigated in chicory and related to traits of interest such as reproductive barriers, sesquiterpene lactone biosynthesis, inulin metabolism and stress response, we produced a second map encompassing 64 loci that could be useful for MAS purposes. With the advent of omics technologies, molecular data chaos (namely, the situation where the amount of molecular data is so complex and unmanageable that their use becomes challenging) is becoming far from a negligible issue. In this review, we have therefore tried to contribute by standardizing and organizing the molecular data produced thus far in chicory to facilitate the work of breeders.
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- Department of Agronomy Food Natural Resources Animals Environment, Campus of Agripolis, University of Padova, 35020 Legnaro, Italy; (S.D.); (G.G.)
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- Department of Agronomy Food Natural Resources Animals Environment, Campus of Agripolis, University of Padova, 35020 Legnaro, Italy; (S.D.); (G.G.)
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Szlachtowska Z, Rurek M. Plant dehydrins and dehydrin-like proteins: characterization and participation in abiotic stress response. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1213188. [PMID: 37484455 PMCID: PMC10358736 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1213188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2023] [Accepted: 06/12/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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Abiotic stress has a significant impact on plant growth and development. It causes changes in the subcellular organelles, which, due to their stress sensitivity, can be affected. Cellular components involved in the abiotic stress response include dehydrins, widely distributed proteins forming a class II of late embryogenesis abundant protein family with characteristic properties including the presence of evolutionarily conserved sequence motifs (including lysine-rich K-segment, N-terminal Y-segment, and often phosphorylated S motif) and high hydrophilicity and disordered structure in the unbound state. Selected dehydrins and few poorly characterized dehydrin-like proteins participate in cellular stress acclimation and are also shown to interact with organelles. Through their functioning in stabilizing biological membranes and binding reactive oxygen species, dehydrins and dehydrin-like proteins contribute to the protection of fragile organellar structures under adverse conditions. Our review characterizes the participation of plant dehydrins and dehydrin-like proteins (including some organellar proteins) in plant acclimation to diverse abiotic stress conditions and summarizes recent updates on their structure (the identification of dehydrin less conserved motifs), classification (new proposed subclasses), tissue- and developmentally specific accumulation, and key cellular activities (including organellar protection under stress acclimation). Recent findings on the subcellular localization (with emphasis on the mitochondria and plastids) and prospective applications of dehydrins and dehydrin-like proteins in functional studies to alleviate the harmful stress consequences by means of plant genetic engineering and a genome editing strategy are also discussed.
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Jiang WJ, Wang MT, Du ZY, Li JH, Shi Y, Wang X, Wu LY, Chen J, Zhong M, Yang J, Hu BH, Huang J. Bioinformatic and functional analysis of OsDHN2 under cadmium stress. Funct Integr Genomics 2023; 23:170. [PMID: 37209314 DOI: 10.1007/s10142-023-01101-4] [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: 03/10/2023] [Revised: 05/11/2023] [Accepted: 05/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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As a toxic heavy metal, cadmium (Cd) is one of the principal pollutants influencing rice productivity and food security. Despite several studies, the underlying mechanism of Cd response in plants remains largely unclear. Dehydrins are part of the late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) family which protect plants against abiotic stresses. In this study, a Cd-responsive LEA gene, OsDHN2, was functionally characterized. The chromosome localization results indicated that OsDHN2 was located on chromosome 2 of rice. Meanwhile, cis-acting elements, such as MBS (MYB binding site involved in drought-inducibility), ARE (anaerobic induction), and ABRE (abscisic acid), were present in the OsDHN2 promoter region. Expression pattern analysis also showed that OsDHN2 expression was induced in both roots and shoots under Cd stress. Overexpression of OsDHN2 improved Cd tolerance and reduced Cd concentration in yeast. Moreover, increased expression levels of SOD1, CTA1, GSH1, or CTT1 were found in transgenic yeast under Cd stress, suggesting the increased antioxidant enzymatic activities. These results suggested that OsDHN2 is a Cd-responsive gene that has the potential to improve resistance to Cd in rice.
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- Wen-Jun Jiang
- College of Ecology and Environment, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
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- College of Ecology and Environment, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
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- College of Ecology and Environment, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
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- College of Ecology and Environment, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
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- College of Ecology and Environment, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
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- College of Ecology and Environment, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
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- College of Ecology and Environment, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
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- College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China.
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- College of Ecology and Environment, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
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- College of Ecology and Environment, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
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- Institute of Biotechnology and Nuclear Technology, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu, 610066, Sichuan, China
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- College of Ecology and Environment, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China.
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Pasaribu B, Acosta K, Aylward A, Liang Y, Abramson BW, Colt K, Hartwick NT, Shanklin J, Michael TP, Lam E. Genomics of turions from the Greater Duckweed reveal its pathways for dormancy and re-emergence strategy. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023. [PMID: 37149888 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Over 15 families of aquatic plants are known to use a strategy of developmental switching upon environmental stress to produce dormant propagules called turions. However, few molecular details for turion biology have been elucidated due to the difficulties in isolating high-quality nucleic acids from this tissue. We successfully developed a new protocol to isolate high-quality transcripts and carried out RNA-seq analysis of mature turions from the Greater Duckweed Spirodela polyrhiza. Comparison of turion transcriptomes to that of fronds, the actively growing leaf-like tissue, were carried out. Bioinformatic analysis of high confidence, differentially expressed transcripts between frond and mature turion tissues revealed major pathways related to stress tolerance, starch and lipid metabolism, and dormancy that are mobilized to reprogram frond meristems for turion differentiation. We identified the key genes that are likely to drive starch and lipid accumulation during turion formation, as well as those in pathways for starch and lipid utilization upon turion germination. Comparison of genome-wide cytosine methylation levels also revealed evidence for epigenetic changes in the formation of turion tissues. Similarities between turions and seeds provide evidence that key regulators for seed maturation and germination were retooled for their function in turion biology.
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- Buntora Pasaribu
- Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA
- Marine Science Department, Faculty of Fishery and Marine Science, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, 40600, Indonesia
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- Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA
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- The Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- The Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- The Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- The Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- The Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA
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Zhang X, Guo R, Shen R, Landis JB, Jiang Q, Liu F, Wang H, Yao X. The genomic and epigenetic footprint of local adaptation to variable climates in kiwifruit. HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2023; 10:uhad031. [PMID: 37799629 PMCID: PMC10548413 DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhad031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023]
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A full understanding of adaptive genetic variation at the genomic level will help address questions of how organisms adapt to diverse climates. Actinidia eriantha is a shade-tolerant species, widely distributed in the southern tropical region of China, occurring in spatially heterogeneous environments. In the present study we combined population genomic, epigenomic, and environmental association analyses to infer population genetic structure and positive selection across a climatic gradient, and to assess genomic offset to climatic change for A. eriantha. The population structure is strongly shaped by geography and influenced by restricted gene flow resulting from isolation by distance due to habitat fragmentation. In total, we identified 102 outlier loci and annotated 455 candidate genes associated with the genomic basis of climate adaptation, which were enriched in functional categories related to development processes and stress response; both temperature and precipitation are important factors driving adaptive variation. In addition to single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), a total of 27 single-methylation variants (SMVs) had significant correlation with at least one of four climatic variables and 16 SMVs were located in or adjacent to genes, several of which were predicted to be involved in plant response to abiotic or biotic stress. Gradient forest analysis indicated that the central/east populations were predicted to be at higher risk of future population maladaptation under climate change. Our results demonstrate that local climate factors impose strong selection pressures and lead to local adaptation. Such information adds to our understanding of adaptive mechanisms to variable climates revealed by both population genome and epigenome analysis.
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- Xu Zhang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Section of Plant Biology and the L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
- BTI Computational Biology Center, Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China
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Jia JS, Ge N, Wang QY, Zhao LT, Chen C, Chen JW. Genome-wide identification and characterization of members of the LEA gene family in Panax notoginseng and their transcriptional responses to dehydration of recalcitrant seeds. BMC Genomics 2023; 24:126. [PMID: 36932328 PMCID: PMC10024439 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-023-09229-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 03/19/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins play an important role in dehydration process of seed maturation. The seeds of Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F. H. Chen are typically characterized with the recalcitrance and are highly sensitive to dehydration. However, it is not very well known about the role of LEA proteins in response to dehydration stress in P. notoginseng seeds. We will perform a genome-wide analysis of the LEA gene family and their transcriptional responses to dehydration stress in recalcitrant P. notoginseng seeds. RESULTS In this study, 61 LEA genes were identified from the P. notoginseng genome, and they were renamed as PnoLEA. The PnoLEA genes were classified into seven subfamilies based on the phylogenetic relationships, gene structure and conserved domains. The PnoLEA genes family showed relatively few introns and was highly conserved. Unexpectedly, the LEA_6 subfamily was not found, and the LEA_2 subfamily contained 46 (75.4%) members. Within 19 pairs of fragment duplication events, among them 17 pairs were LEA_2 subfamily. In addition, the expression of the PnoLEA genes was obviously induced under dehydration stress, but the germination rate of P. notoginseng seeds decreased as the dehydration time prolonged. CONCLUSIONS We found that the lack of the LEA_6 subfamily, the expansion of the LEA_2 subfamily and low transcriptional levels of most PnoLEA genes might be implicated in the recalcitrant formation of P. notoginseng seeds. LEA proteins are essential in the response to dehydration stress in recalcitrant seeds, but the protective effect of LEA protein is not efficient. These results could improve our understanding of the function of LEA proteins in the response of dehydration stress and their contributions to the formation of seed recalcitrance.
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- Jin-Shan Jia
- College of Agronomy & Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
- The Key Laboratory of Medicinal Plant Biology of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
- National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center On Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Chinese Medicinal Materials in Southwestern China, Yunnan Agricultural University, Fengyuan Road, Panlong District, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
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- College of Agronomy & Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
- The Key Laboratory of Medicinal Plant Biology of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
- National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center On Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Chinese Medicinal Materials in Southwestern China, Yunnan Agricultural University, Fengyuan Road, Panlong District, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
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- College of Agronomy & Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
- The Key Laboratory of Medicinal Plant Biology of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
- National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center On Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Chinese Medicinal Materials in Southwestern China, Yunnan Agricultural University, Fengyuan Road, Panlong District, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
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- College of Agronomy & Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
- The Key Laboratory of Medicinal Plant Biology of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
- National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center On Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Chinese Medicinal Materials in Southwestern China, Yunnan Agricultural University, Fengyuan Road, Panlong District, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
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- College of Agronomy & Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
- The Key Laboratory of Medicinal Plant Biology of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
- National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center On Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Chinese Medicinal Materials in Southwestern China, Yunnan Agricultural University, Fengyuan Road, Panlong District, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
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- College of Agronomy & Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China.
- The Key Laboratory of Medicinal Plant Biology of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China.
- National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center On Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Chinese Medicinal Materials in Southwestern China, Yunnan Agricultural University, Fengyuan Road, Panlong District, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China.
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Ma X, Zhang Q, Ou Y, Wang L, Gao Y, Lucas GR, Resco de Dios V, Yao Y. Transcriptome and Low-Affinity Sodium Transport Analysis Reveals Salt Tolerance Variations between Two Poplar Trees. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24065732. [PMID: 36982804 PMCID: PMC10058024 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24065732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Revised: 03/04/2023] [Accepted: 03/05/2023] [Indexed: 03/19/2023] Open
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Salinity stress severely hampers plant growth and productivity. How to improve plants’ salt tolerance is an urgent issue. However, the molecular basis of plant resistance to salinity still remains unclear. In this study, we used two poplar species with different salt sensitivities to conduct RNA-sequencing and physiological and pharmacological analyses; the aim is to study the transcriptional profiles and ionic transport characteristics in the roots of the two Populus subjected to salt stress under hydroponic culture conditions. Our results show that numerous genes related to energy metabolism were highly expressed in Populus alba relative to Populus russkii, which activates vigorous metabolic processes and energy reserves for initiating a set of defense responses when suffering from salinity stress. Moreover, we found the capacity of Na+ transportation by the P. alba high-affinity K+ transporter1;2 (HKT1;2) was superior to that of P. russkii under salt stress, which enables P. alba to efficiently recycle xylem-loaded Na+ and to maintain shoot K+/Na+ homeostasis. Furthermore, the genes involved in the synthesis of ethylene and abscisic acid were up-regulated in P. alba but downregulated in P. russkii under salt stress. In P. alba, the gibberellin inactivation and auxin signaling genes with steady high transcriptions, several antioxidant enzymes activities (such as peroxidase [POD], ascorbate peroxidase [APX], and glutathione reductase [GR]), and glycine-betaine content were significantly increased under salt stress. These factors altogether confer P. alba a higher resistance to salinity, achieving a more efficient coordination between growth modulation and defense response. Our research provides significant evidence to improve the salt tolerance of crops or woody plants.
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- Xuan Ma
- School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
- Department of Crop and Forest Sciences & Agrotecnio Center, Universitat de Lleida, 25003 Leida, Spain
- Correspondence: (V.R.d.D.); (Y.Y.)
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
- Correspondence: (V.R.d.D.); (Y.Y.)
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