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Garcia-Gimenez G, Schreiber M, Dimitroff G, Little A, Singh R, Fincher GB, Burton RA, Waugh R, Tucker MR, Houston K. Identification of candidate MYB transcription factors that influence CslF6 expression in barley grain. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:883139. [PMID: 36160970 PMCID: PMC9493323 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.883139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
Abstract
(1,3;1,4)-β-Glucan is a non-cellulosic polysaccharide required for correct barley grain fill and plant development, with industrial relevance in the brewing and the functional food sector. Barley grains contain higher levels of (1,3;1,4)-β-glucan compared to other small grain cereals and this influences their end use, having undesirable effects on brewing and distilling and beneficial effects linked to human health. HvCslF6 is the main gene contributing to (1,3;1,4)-β-glucan biosynthesis in the grain. Here, the transcriptional regulation of HvCslF6 was investigated using an in-silico analysis of transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) in its putative promoter, and functional characterization in a barley protoplast transient expression system. Based on TFBS predictions, TF classes AP2/ERF, MYB, and basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) were over-represented within a 1,000 bp proximal HvCslF6 promoter region. Dual luciferase assays based on multiple HvCslF6 deletion constructs revealed the promoter fragment driving HvCslF6 expression. Highest HvCslF6 promoter activity was narrowed down to a 51 bp region located -331 bp to -382 bp upstream of the start codon. We combined this with TFBS predictions to identify two MYB TFs: HvMYB61 and HvMYB46/83 as putative activators of HvCslF6 expression. Gene network analyses assigned HvMYB61 to the same co-expression module as HvCslF6 and other primary cellulose synthases (HvCesA1, HvCesA2, and HvCesA6), whereas HvMYB46/83 was assigned to a different module. Based on RNA-seq expression during grain development, HvMYB61 was cloned and tested in the protoplast system. The transient over-expression of HvMYB61 in barley protoplasts suggested a positive regulatory effect on HvCslF6 expression.
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- Plant Sciences Division, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom
- Plant Sciences Division, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Kelly Houston,
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Laviad-Shitrit S, Sela R, Sharaby Y, Thorat L, Nath BB, Halpern M. Comparative Microbiota Composition Across Developmental Stages of Natural and Laboratory-Reared Chironomus circumdatus Populations From India. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:746830. [PMID: 34899634 PMCID: PMC8661057 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.746830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 10/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Chironomids are aquatic insects that undergo a complete metamorphosis of four life stages. Here we studied, for the first time, the microbiota composition of Chironomus circumdatus, a tropical midge species, both from the Mula and Mutha Rivers in Pune, India and as a laboratory-reared culture. We generated a comparative microbial profile of the eggs, larvae and pupae, the three aquatic life stages of C. circumdatus. Non-metric multidimensional scaling analysis (NMDS) demonstrated that the developmental stage had a more prominent effect on the microbiota composition compared to the sampling location. Notably, the microbiota composition of the egg masses from the different sampling points clustered together and differed from laboratory culture larvae. Proteobacteria was the dominant phylum in all the environmental and laboratory-reared egg masses and pupal samples, and in the laboratory-reared larvae, while Fusobacteria was the dominant phylum in the larvae collected from the field environment. The most abundant genera were Cetobacterium, Aeromonas, Dysgonomonas, Vibrio, and Flavobacterium. The ten amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) that most significantly contributed to differences in microbiota composition between the three sampled locations were: Burkholderiaceae (ASVs 04 and 37), C39 (Rhodocyclaceae, ASV 14), Vibrio (ASV 07), Arcobacter (ASV 21), Sphaerotilus (ASV 22), Bacteroidia (ASVs 12 and 28), Flavobacterium (ASV 29), and Gottschalkia (ASV 10). No significant differences were found in the microbial richness (Chao1) or diversity (Shannon H’) of the three sampled locations. In contrast, significant differences were found between the microbial richness of the three life stages. Studying the microbiota of this Chironomus species may contribute to a better understanding of the association of C. circumdatus and its microbial inhabitants.
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- Sivan Laviad-Shitrit
- Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Zoology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India.,Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Zoology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India
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- Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.,Department of Biology and Environment, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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