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Aksoy E, Yavuz C, Yagiz AK, Unel NM, Baloğlu MC. Genome-wide characterization and expression analysis of GATA transcription factors under combination of light wavelengths and drought stress in potato. PLANT DIRECT 2024; 8:e569. [PMID: 38659972 PMCID: PMC11042883 DOI: 10.1002/pld3.569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2023] [Revised: 01/25/2024] [Accepted: 01/31/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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GATA is one of the prominent transcription factor families conserved among many organisms in eukaryotes and has different biological roles in many pathways, particularly in light regulation in plants. Although GATA transcription factors (TFs) have been identified in different crop species, their roles in abiotic stress tolerance have not been studied in potato. In this study, we identified 32 GATA TFs in potato (Solanum tuberosum) by in silico analyses, and expression levels of selected six genes were investigated in drought-tolerant (Sante) and sensitive (Agria) cultivars under light, drought, and combined (light + drought) stress conditions. According to the phylogenetic results, StGATA TFs were divided into four main groups (I, II, III, and IV) and different sub-groups in I and II (eight and five, respectively). StGATA genes were uniformly localized to each chromosome with a conserved exon/intron structure. The presence of cis-elements within the StGATA family further supported the possible involvement in abiotic stress tolerance and light response, tissue-specific expression, and hormonal regulation. Additional PPI investigations showed that these networks, especially for Groups I, II, and IV, play a significant role in response to light and drought stress. Six StGATAs were chosen from these groups for expressional profiling, and their expression in both Sante and Agria was mainly downregulated under purple and red lights, drought, and combined stress (blue + drought and purple + drought). The interactomes of selected StGATAs, StGATA3, StGATA24, and StGATA29 were analyzed, and the accessions with GATA motifs were checked for expression. The results showed that the target proteins, cyclin-P3-1, SPX domain-containing protein 1, mitochondrial calcium uniporter protein 2, mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase YODA, and splicing factor 3 B subunit 4-like, mainly play a role in phytochrome-mediated stomatal patterning, development, and activity. Understanding the interactions between drought stress and the light response mechanisms in potato plants is essential. It will eventually be possible to enhance potato resilience to climate change by manipulating the TFs that play a role in these pathways.
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- Emre Aksoy
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of BiologyMiddle East Technical UniversityAnkaraTürkiye
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- Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Department of Agricultural Genetic EngineeringNiğde Ömer Halisdemir UniversityNiğdeTürkiye
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- Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Department of Agricultural Genetic EngineeringNiğde Ömer Halisdemir UniversityNiğdeTürkiye
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- Plantomics Research Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering and ArchitectureKastamonu UniversityKastamonuTürkiye
- Research and Application CenterKastamonu UniversityKastamonuTürkiye
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- Plantomics Research Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering and ArchitectureKastamonu UniversityKastamonuTürkiye
- Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM)Sabancı UniversityTuzlaTürkiye
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Tang X, Sun F, Zhang N, Rana BB, Kharel R, Luo P, Si H. RNA-seq provides insights into potato deubiquitinase responses to drought stress in seedling stage. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1268448. [PMID: 37780518 PMCID: PMC10539648 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1268448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/28/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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Ubiquitination is a specific protein degradation and reversible post-translational modification process that can be reversed by deubiquitinase (DUBs). DUBs can hydrolyze and release ubiquitin in the substrate protein so that the substrate can avoid degradation or change its activity, and it has an impact on plant growth and development, cell cycle, abiotic stress response, and other biological processes. Transcript sequences of potato varieties "DM1-3", "Atlantic" and "Cooperation-88" downloaded from Potato Genome Resources were used for genome-wide identification of the DUB gene family using Hidden Markov Models and verified in the NCBI CD-Search tool. The characteristics of DUB genes from different potato varieties were analyzed including subcellular localization, gene structural motifs, phylogenetic tree, and sequence homology. Polyethylene glycol 6000 (PEG6000) induced drought stress transcriptome analysis was performed on the "Atlantic", and differentially expressed genes were screened, with emphasis on the characterization of deubiquitinase. DUB genes have a complex gene structure, often with a large number of exons and alternative splicing. Their promoters contain abundant abiotic stress-responsive elements, such as 425 MYC, 325 ABRE, and 320 MYB. There are also a large number of orthologous genes in the DUBs of the three potato varieties, and these genes are often clustered in similar regions on the genome. We performed transcriptome sequencing of the potato under PEG-induced drought stress and analyzed it for the first time using the Atlantic as a reference genome. We identified a total of 6067 down-regulated differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and 4950 up-regulated DEGs under PEG-induced drought stress. We screened the expression of DUBs and observed that 120 DUBs were up-regulated where most of them functioned in the nucleus, and the interacting proteins of DUBs were also localized in the nucleus. We have comprehensively identified and analyzed potato DUBs, and the accurately aligned transcriptome data which will further deepen the understanding of DUBs involved in the regulation of osmotic stress.
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- Xun Tang
- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
- College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
- College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- Nepal Agricultural Research Council, National Potato Research Program, Lalitpur, Nepal
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- Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Agricultural and Forestry University, Chitwan, Nepal
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
- College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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Charfeddine M, Chiab N, Charfeddine S, Ferjani A, Gargouri-Bouzid R. Heat, drought, and combined stress effect on transgenic potato plants overexpressing the StERF94 transcription factor. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2023; 136:549-562. [PMID: 36988761 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-023-01454-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 03/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Despite their economic importance worldwide, potato plants are sensitive to various abiotic constraints, such as drought and high temperatures, which cause significant losses in yields and tuber quality. Moreover, because of the climate change phenomenon, plants are frequently subjected to combined stresses, mainly high temperatures and drought. In this context, breeding for tolerant varieties should consider not only plant response to drought or high temperature but also to combined stresses. In the current study, we studied transgenic potato plants overexpressing an ethylene response transcription factor (TF; StERF94) involved in abiotic stress response signaling pathways. Our previous results showed that these transgenic plants display tolerance to salt stress more than wildtype (WT). In this work, we aimed to investigate the effects of drought, heat, and combined stresses on transgenic potato plants overexpressing StERF94 TF under in vitro culture conditions. The obtained results revealed that StERF94 overexpression improved the tolerance of the transgenic plants to drought, heat, and combined stresses through better control of the leaf water and chlorophyll contents, activation of antioxidant enzymes, and an accumulation of proline, especially in the leaves. Indeed, the expression level of antioxidant enzyme-encoding genes (CuZnSOD, FeSOD, CAT1, and CAT2) was significantly induced by the different stress conditions in the transgenic potato plants compared with the WT plants. This study further confirms that StERF94 TF may be implicated in regulating the expression of target genes encoding antioxidant enzymes.
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- Mariam Charfeddine
- Plant Amelioration and Valorization of Agri-resource Laboratory, National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS), Sfax, Tunisia
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- Plant Amelioration and Valorization of Agri-resource Laboratory, National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS), Sfax, Tunisia.
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- Plant Amelioration and Valorization of Agri-resource Laboratory, National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS), Sfax, Tunisia
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- Plant Amelioration and Valorization of Agri-resource Laboratory, National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS), Sfax, Tunisia
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- Plant Amelioration and Valorization of Agri-resource Laboratory, National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS), Sfax, Tunisia
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Han X, Yang R, Zhang L, Wei Q, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Shi Y. A Review of Potato Salt Tolerance. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:10726. [PMID: 37445900 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241310726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2023] [Revised: 06/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/24/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023] Open
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Potato is the world's fourth largest food crop. Due to limited arable land and an ever-increasing demand for food from a growing population, it is critical to increase crop yields on existing acreage. Soil salinization is an increasing problem that dramatically impacts crop yields and restricts the growing area of potato. One possible solution to this problem is the development of salt-tolerant transgenic potato cultivars. In this work, we review the current potato planting distribution and the ways in which it overlaps with salinized land, in addition to covering the development and utilization of potato salt-tolerant cultivars. We also provide an overview of the current progress toward identifying potato salt tolerance genes and how they may be deployed to overcome the current challenges facing potato growers.
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- Xue Han
- College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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Dong J, Zhao C, Zhang J, Ren Y, He L, Tang R, Wang W, Jia X. The sweet potato B-box transcription factor gene IbBBX28 negatively regulates drought tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis. Front Genet 2022; 13:1077958. [PMID: 36523761 PMCID: PMC9744756 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.1077958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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B-box (BBX) which are a class of zinc finger transcription factors, play an important role in regulating of photoperiod, photomorphogenesis, and biotic and abiotic stresses in plants. However, there are few studies on the involvement of BBX transcription factors in response to abiotic stresses in sweet potato. In this paper, we cloned the DNA and promoter sequences of IbBBX28. There was one B-box conserved domain in IbBBX28, and the expression of IbBBX28 was induced under drought stress. Under drought stress, compared to wild type Arabidopsis, the protective enzyme activities (SOD, POD, and CAT) were all decreased in IbBBX28-overexpression Arabidopsis but increased in the mutant line bbx28, while the MDA content was increased in the IbBBX28-overexpression Arabidopsis and decreased in the bbx28. Moreover, the expression levels of the resistance-related genes showed the same trend as the protective enzyme activities. These results showed that IbBBX28 negatively regulates drought tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis. Additionally, the yeast two-hybrid and BiFC assays verified that IbBBX28 interacted with IbHOX11 and IbZMAT2. The above results provide important clues for further studies on the role of IbBBX28 in regulating the stress response in sweet potato.
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- Jingjing Dong
- College of Agriculture, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China
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- College of Agriculture, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China
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- College of Agriculture, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China
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- College of Agriculture, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China
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- College of Agriculture, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China
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Villalobos-López MA, Arroyo-Becerra A, Quintero-Jiménez A, Iturriaga G. Biotechnological Advances to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:12053. [PMID: 36233352 PMCID: PMC9570234 DOI: 10.3390/ijms231912053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Revised: 10/02/2022] [Accepted: 10/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The major challenges that agriculture is facing in the twenty-first century are increasing droughts, water scarcity, flooding, poorer soils, and extreme temperatures due to climate change. However, most crops are not tolerant to extreme climatic environments. The aim in the near future, in a world with hunger and an increasing population, is to breed and/or engineer crops to tolerate abiotic stress with a higher yield. Some crop varieties display a certain degree of tolerance, which has been exploited by plant breeders to develop varieties that thrive under stress conditions. Moreover, a long list of genes involved in abiotic stress tolerance have been identified and characterized by molecular techniques and overexpressed individually in plant transformation experiments. Nevertheless, stress tolerance phenotypes are polygenetic traits, which current genomic tools are dissecting to exploit their use by accelerating genetic introgression using molecular markers or site-directed mutagenesis such as CRISPR-Cas9. In this review, we describe plant mechanisms to sense and tolerate adverse climate conditions and examine and discuss classic and new molecular tools to select and improve abiotic stress tolerance in major crops.
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- Miguel Angel Villalobos-López
- Laboratorio de Genómica Funcional y Biotecnología de Plantas, Centro de Investigación en Biotecnología Aplicada, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ex-Hacienda San Juan Molino Carretera Estatal Km 1.5, Santa Inés-Tecuexcomac-Tepetitla 90700, Tlaxcala, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Genómica Funcional y Biotecnología de Plantas, Centro de Investigación en Biotecnología Aplicada, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ex-Hacienda San Juan Molino Carretera Estatal Km 1.5, Santa Inés-Tecuexcomac-Tepetitla 90700, Tlaxcala, Mexico
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- División de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Tecnológico Nacional de México/I.T. Roque, Km. 8 Carretera Celaya-Juventino Rosas, Roque, Celaya 38110, Guanajato, Mexico
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- División de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Tecnológico Nacional de México/I.T. Roque, Km. 8 Carretera Celaya-Juventino Rosas, Roque, Celaya 38110, Guanajato, Mexico
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Qin T, Kazim A, Wang Y, Richard D, Yao P, Bi Z, Liu Y, Sun C, Bai J. Root-Related Genes in Crops and Their Application under Drought Stress Resistance—A Review. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms231911477. [PMID: 36232779 PMCID: PMC9569943 DOI: 10.3390/ijms231911477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 09/25/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Crop growth and development are frequently affected by biotic and abiotic stresses. The adaptation of crops to stress is mostly achieved by regulating specific genes. The root system is the primary organ for nutrient and water uptake, and has an important role in drought stress response. The improvement of stress tolerance to increase crop yield potential and yield stability is a traditional goal of breeders in cultivar development using integrated breeding methods. An improved understanding of genes that control root development will enable the formulation of strategies to incorporate stress-tolerant genes into breeding for complex agronomic traits and provide opportunities for developing stress-tolerant germplasm. We screened the genes associated with root growth and development from diverse plants including Arabidopsis, rice, maize, pepper and tomato. This paper provides a theoretical basis for the application of root-related genes in molecular breeding to achieve crop drought tolerance by the improvement of root architecture.
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- Tianyuan Qin
- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- National Institute for Genomics and Advanced Biotechnology, National Agricultural Research Centre, Park Road, Islamabad 45500, Pakistan
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
- Correspondence: (C.S.); (J.B.); Tel.: +86-189-9319-8496 (C.S.); +86-181-0942-4020 (J.B.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
- Correspondence: (C.S.); (J.B.); Tel.: +86-189-9319-8496 (C.S.); +86-181-0942-4020 (J.B.)
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Ma R, Liu W, Li S, Zhu X, Yang J, Zhang N, Si H. Genome-Wide Identification, Characterization and Expression Analysis of the CIPK Gene Family in Potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) and the Role of StCIPK10 in Response to Drought and Osmotic Stress. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms222413535. [PMID: 34948331 PMCID: PMC8708990 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222413535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2021] [Revised: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), one of the most important food crops worldwide, is sensitive to environmental stresses. Sensor–responder complexes comprising calcineurin B-like (CBL) proteins and CBL-interacting protein kinases (CIPKs) not only modulate plant growth and development but also mediate numerous stress responses. Here, using a Hidden Markov Model and BLAST searches, 27 CIPK genes were identified in potato and divided into five groups by phylogenetic analysis and into two clades (intron-poor and intron-rich) by gene structure analysis. Quantitative reverse-transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) assays revealed that StCIPK genes play important roles in plant growth, development and abiotic stress tolerance. Up-regulated expression of StCIPK10 was significantly induced by drought, PEG6000 and ABA. StCIPK10 enhances both the ability of potato to scavenge reactive oxygen species and the content of corresponding osmoregulation substances, thereby strengthening tolerance to drought and osmotic stress. StCIPK10 is located at the intersection between the abscisic acid and abiotic stress signaling pathways, which control both root growth and stomatal closure in potato. In addition, StCIPK10 interacts with StCBL1, StCBL4, StCBL6, StCBL7, StCBL8, StCBL11 and StCBL12, and is specifically recruited to the plasma membrane by StCBL11.
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- Rui Ma
- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (R.M.); (W.L.); (S.L.); (X.Z.); (J.Y.); (N.Z.)
- College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
- College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
- Dingxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Dingxi 743000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (R.M.); (W.L.); (S.L.); (X.Z.); (J.Y.); (N.Z.)
- College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (R.M.); (W.L.); (S.L.); (X.Z.); (J.Y.); (N.Z.)
- College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (R.M.); (W.L.); (S.L.); (X.Z.); (J.Y.); (N.Z.)
- College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (R.M.); (W.L.); (S.L.); (X.Z.); (J.Y.); (N.Z.)
- College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (R.M.); (W.L.); (S.L.); (X.Z.); (J.Y.); (N.Z.)
- College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (R.M.); (W.L.); (S.L.); (X.Z.); (J.Y.); (N.Z.)
- College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +86-931-763-1875
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Singh B, Goutam U, Kukreja S, Sharma J, Sood S, Bhardwaj V. Potato biofortification: an effective way to fight global hidden hunger. PHYSIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PLANTS : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2021; 27:2297-2313. [PMID: 34744367 PMCID: PMC8526655 DOI: 10.1007/s12298-021-01081-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Revised: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Hidden hunger is leading to extensive health problems in the developing world. Several strategies could be used to reduce the micronutrient deficiencies by increasing the dietary uptake of essential micronutrients. These include diet diversification, pharmaceutical supplementation, food fortification and crop biofortification. Among all, crop biofortification is the most sustainable and acceptable strategy to overcome the global issue of hidden hunger. Since most of the people suffering from micronutrient deficiencies, have monetary issues and are dependent on staple crops to fulfil their recommended daily requirements of various essential micronutrients. Therefore, increasing the micronutrient concentrations in cost effective staple crops seems to be an effective solution. Potato being the world's most consumed non-grain staple crop with enormous industrial demand appears to be an ideal candidate for biofortification. It can be grown in different climatic conditions, provide high yield, nutrition and dry matter in lesser time. In addition, huge potato germplasm have natural variations related to micronutrient concentrations, which can be utilized for its biofortification. This review discuss the current scenario of micronutrient malnutrition and various strategies that could be used to overcome it. The review also shed a light on the genetic variations present in potato germplasm and suggest effective ways to incorporate them into modern high yielding potato varieties.
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- Baljeet Singh
- Division of Crop Improvement and Seed Technology, Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, India
- School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India
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- School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India
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- Department of Agronomy, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India
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- Division of Crop Production, Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, India
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- Division of Crop Improvement and Seed Technology, Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, India
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- Division of Crop Improvement and Seed Technology, Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, India
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Alayafi AAM. Exogenous ascorbic acid induces systemic heat stress tolerance in tomato seedlings: transcriptional regulation mechanism. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2020; 27:19186-19199. [PMID: 31448379 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-019-06195-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2019] [Accepted: 08/09/2019] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The current study was devoted to assessing the impact of exogenous ascorbic acid (AsA) in inducing systemic thermotolerance against acute heat stress in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) seedlings. There were four treatment groups including untreated control (CK), heat-stressed tomato (HS: exposure to 40 °C for 8 h), and treated with ascorbic acid (0.5 mM AsA), and the last group includes both the exogenous application of ascorbic acid and heat stress (AsA + HS). The HS led to leaf curling and mild wilting while plants treated with AsA displayed similar phenotype with control plants, approving that AsA eliminated the injurious effects of the heat stress. The oxidative damage to cell components was confirmed by higher levels of hydrogen peroxide, lipid peroxidation, electrolyte leakage, total oxidant status, and oxidative stress index. Moreover, acute heat stress significantly reduced the photosynthetic pigment contents, and nutrient contents in tomato seedling leaves. In contrast, ascorbic acid postulated a priming effect on tomato roots and, substantially, alleviated heat stress effects on seedlings through reducing the oxidative damage and increasing the contents of ascorbic acid, proline, photosynthetic pigments, and upregulation of heat shock proteins in leaves. Ascorbic acid seems to be a key signaling molecule which enhanced the thermotolerance of tomato plants.
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Charfeddine M, Charfeddine S, Ghazala I, Bouaziz D, Bouzid RG. Investigation of the response to salinity of transgenic potato plants overexpressing the transcription factor StERF94. J Biosci 2019; 44:141. [PMID: 31894122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Salinity is one of the most important constraints threatening the cultivation of potato plants (Solanum tuberosum L.). It affects plant growth and leads to significant yield loss. Consequently, it is important to improve the tolerance of potato plants to salinity. In this context, we investigated the involvement of a potato ethylene responsive factor (StERF94) in plant response to salinity, since our previous genome-wide analysis showed that it may be related to biotic and abiotic stress response. ERF proteins belong to a large family of transcription factors that participate in plant response to abiotic stresses. We have previously identified the StERF94 gene which shows increased expression in potato plants submitted to salt treatment. In this study, transgenic potato plants overexpressing StERF94 were produced and submitted to salt treatment (100 mM NaCl) in vitro and under greenhouse culture conditions. StERF94 transgenic lines showed lower decrease of stem elongation under salt treatment in comparison to non-transgenic wild-type plants. Moreover, these plants showed a low level of H2O2 and Malondialdehyde content, and an increase in catalase and GPX (Gluthation peroxidase) activities compared to non-transgenic plants. In a second step, enhanced expression of some target genes for example CuZn-SOD, DHN25 (Dehydrin) and ERD (Early Responsive to Dehydration) was noted in the StERF94 transgenic plants, submitted to salt treatment. The StERF94 factor was also involved in the activation of osmoprotectant synthesis. Taken together, all these data suggest that overexpression of the StERF94 transcription factor increases the tolerance of potato plants to salinity by improving plant growth, osmoprotectant synthesis and antioxidant activityleading to low oxidative stress damage.
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- Mariam Charfeddine
- Laboratoire d'Amelioration des Plantes et Valorisation des Agroressources, Ecole Nationale dIngenieurs de Sfax, Route Soukra Km 4, BP 1173, 3038 Sfax, Tunisia
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Charfeddine M, Charfeddine S, Ghazala I, Bouaziz D, Bouzid RG. Investigation of the response to salinity of transgenic potato plants overexpressing the transcription factor StERF94. J Biosci 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s12038-019-9959-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Peivastegan B, Hadizadeh I, Nykyri J, Nielsen KL, Somervuo P, Sipari N, Tran C, Pirhonen M. Effect of wet storage conditions on potato tuber transcriptome, phytohormones and growth. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2019; 19:262. [PMID: 31208336 PMCID: PMC6580497 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-019-1875-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2018] [Accepted: 06/06/2019] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND Stored potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tubers are sensitive to wet conditions that can cause rotting in long-term storage. To study the effect of water on the tuber surface during storage, microarray analysis, RNA-Seq profiling, qRT-PCR and phytohormone measurements were performed to study gene expression and hormone content in wet tubers incubated at two temperatures: 4 °C and 15 °C. The growth of the plants was also observed in a greenhouse after the incubation of tubers in wet conditions. RESULTS Wet conditions induced a low-oxygen response, suggesting reduced oxygen availability in wet tubers at both temperatures when compared to that in the corresponding dry samples. Wet conditions induced genes coding for heat shock proteins, as well as proteins involved in fermentative energy production and defense against reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are transcripts that have been previously associated with low-oxygen stress in hypoxic or anoxic conditions. Wet treatment also induced senescence-related gene expression and genes involved in cell wall loosening, but downregulated genes encoding protease inhibitors and proteins involved in chloroplast functions and in the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites. Many genes involved in the production of phytohormones and signaling were also affected by wet conditions, suggesting altered regulation of growth by wet conditions. Hormone measurements after incubation showed increased salicylic acid (SA), abscisic acid (ABA) and auxin (IAA) concentrations as well as reduced production of jasmonate 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid (OPDA) in wet tubers. After incubation in wet conditions, the tubers produced fewer stems and more roots compared to controls incubated in dry conditions. CONCLUSIONS In wet conditions, tubers invest in ROS protection and defense against the abiotic stress caused by reduced oxygen due to excessive water. Changes in ABA, SA and IAA that are antagonistic to jasmonates affect growth and defenses, causing induction of root growth and rendering tubers susceptible to necrotrophic pathogens. Water on the tuber surface may function as a signal for growth, similar to germination of seeds.
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- Bahram Peivastegan
- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Viikki Metabolomics Unit, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Present address: Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Li Q, Wang G, Wang Y, Guan C, Ji J. Foliar application of salicylic acid alleviate the cadmium toxicity by modulation the reactive oxygen species in potato. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2019; 172:317-325. [PMID: 30721875 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.01.078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2018] [Revised: 01/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/19/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Heavy metal toxicity is one of the main factors that limit crop growth and yield in the world. Salicylic acid (SA) is thought to be a plant hormone that plays an important role in plant growth, development, and resistance to abiotic stresses. To uncover the toxic alleviation effects of SA on potato plants to cadmium (Cd) stress, the morphological, physiological, and biochemical indexes including antioxidant defense system were assayed in potato plants under 200 μM Cd stress in 1/2 Hoagland solution with foliar application of 600 μM SA concentration (10 ml/plant). Interestingly, exogenous SA treatment mitigated Cd toxicity by increasing the relative water content (RWC), chlorophyll, proline, and endogenous SA contents along with decline in malondialdehyde (MDA), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and superoxide anion radicals (O2-). Correspondingly, our study also proved that SA may stimulate the antioxidant enzymatic mechanism pathway including superoxide dismutase (SOD, EC 1.15.1.1), catalase (CAT, EC 1.11.1.6), ascorbate peroxidase (APX, EC 1.11.1.11), and glutathione reductase (GR, EC 1.6.4.2) in potato plants subjected to Cd stress. Moreover, the expression level of selected genes relate to SA and reactive oxygen species (ROS) metabolism (StSABP2, StSOD and StAPX) were enhanced in SA-treated potato plants under Cd stress, indicating that SA treatment regulated the expression of these genes, which in turn enhanced potato tolerance to Cd stress. Taken together, our results indicated that exogenous SA can play a positive regulatory role in alleviating Cd toxicity in potato plants.
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- Qian Li
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California USA
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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Dahal K, Li XQ, Tai H, Creelman A, Bizimungu B. Improving Potato Stress Tolerance and Tuber Yield Under a Climate Change Scenario - A Current Overview. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:563. [PMID: 31139199 PMCID: PMC6527881 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 04/12/2019] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Global climate change in the form of extreme heat and drought poses a major challenge to sustainable crop production by negatively affecting plant performance and crop yield. Such negative impact on crop yield is likely to be aggravated in future because continued greenhouse gas emissions will cause further rise in temperature leading to increased evapo-transpiration and drought severity, soil salinity as well as insect and disease threats. This has raised a major challenge for plant scientists on securing global food demand, which urges an immediate need to enhance the current yield of major food crops by two-fold to feed the increasing population. As a fourth major food crop, enhancing potato productivity is important for food security of an increasing population. However, potato plant is highly prone to high temperature, drought, soil salinity, as well as insect and diseases. In order to maintain a sustainable potato production, we must adapt our cultivation practices and develop stress tolerant potato cultivars that are appropriately engineered for changing environment. Yet the lack of data on the underlying mechanisms of potato plant resistance to abiotic and biotic stress and the ability to predict future outcomes constitutes a major knowledge gap. It is a challenge for plant scientists to pinpoint means of improving tuber yield under increasing CO2, high temperature and drought stress including the changing patterns of pest and pathogen infestations. Understanding stress-related physiological, biochemical and molecular processes is crucial to develop screening procedures for selecting crop cultivars that can better adapt to changing growth conditions. Elucidation of such mechanism may offer new insights into the identification of specific characteristics that may be useful in breeding new cultivars aimed at maintaining or even enhancing potato yield under changing climate. This paper discusses the recent progress on the mechanism by which potato plants initially sense the changes in their surrounding CO2, temperature, water status, soil salinity and consequently respond to these changes at the molecular, biochemical and physiological levels. We suggest that future research needs to be concentrated on the identification and characterization of signaling molecules and target genes regulating stress tolerance and crop yield potential.
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- Keshav Dahal
- Fredericton Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Fredericton, NB, Canada
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Moon KB, Ahn DJ, Park JS, Jung WY, Cho HS, Kim HR, Jeon JH, Park YI, Kim HS. Transcriptome Profiling and Characterization of Drought-Tolerant Potato Plant ( Solanum tuberosum L.). Mol Cells 2018; 41:979-992. [PMID: 30396236 PMCID: PMC6277564 DOI: 10.14348/molcells.2018.0312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2018] [Revised: 09/13/2018] [Accepted: 09/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the third most important food crop, and breeding drought-tolerant varieties is vital research goal. However, detailed molecular mechanisms in response to drought stress in potatoes are not well known. In this study, we developed EMS-mutagenized potatoes that showed significant tolerance to drought stress compared to the wild-type (WT) 'Desiree' cultivar. In addition, changes to transcripts as a result of drought stress in WT and drought-tolerant (DR) plants were investigated by de novo assembly using the Illumina platform. One-week-old WT and DR plants were treated with -1.8 Mpa polyethylene glycol-8000, and total RNA was prepared from plants harvested at 0, 6, 12, 24, and 48 h for subsequent RNA sequencing. In total, 61,100 transcripts and 5,118 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) displaying up- or down-regulation were identified in pairwise comparisons of WT and DR plants following drought conditions. Transcriptome profiling showed the number of DEGs with up-regulation and down-regulation at 909, 977, 1181, 1225 and 826 between WT and DR plants at 0, 6, 12, 24, and 48 h, respectively. Results of KEGG enrichment showed that the drought tolerance mechanism of the DR plant can mainly be explained by two aspects, the 'photosynthetic-antenna protein' and 'protein processing of the endoplasmic reticulum'. We also divided eight expression patterns in four pairwise comparisons of DR plants (DR0 vs DR6, DR12, DR24, DR48) under PEG treatment. Our comprehensive transcriptome data will further enhance our understanding of the mechanisms regulating drought tolerance in tetraploid potato cultivars.
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- Ki-Beom Moon
- Plant Systems Engineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon,
Korea
- Department of Biological Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon,
Korea
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- Plant Systems Engineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon,
Korea
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- Plant Systems Engineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon,
Korea
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- Plant Systems Engineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon,
Korea
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- Plant Systems Engineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon,
Korea
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- Plant Systems Engineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon,
Korea
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- Plant Systems Engineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon,
Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon,
Korea
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- Plant Systems Engineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon,
Korea
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Prinzenberg AE, Víquez-Zamora M, Harbinson J, Lindhout P, van Heusden S. Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging reveals genetic variation and loci for a photosynthetic trait in diploid potato. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2018; 164:163-175. [PMID: 29314007 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Accepted: 01/02/2018] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Physiology and genetics are tightly interrelated. Understanding the genetic basis of a physiological trait such as the quantum yield of the photosystem II, or photosynthetic responses to environmental changes will benefit the understanding of these processes. By means of chlorophyll fluorescence (CF) imaging, the quantum yield of photosystem II can be determined rapidly, precisely and non-invasively. In this article, the genetic control and variation in the steady-state quantum yield of PSII (ΦPSII ) is analyzed for diploid potato plants. Current progress in potato research and breeding is slow due to high levels of heterozygosity and complexity of tetraploid genetics. Diploid potatoes offer the possibility of overcoming this problem and advance research for one of the globally most important staple foods. With the help of a diploid genetic mapping population two genetic loci that were strongly associated with differences in ΦPSII were identified. This is a proof of principle that genetic analysis for ΦPSII can be done on potato. The effects of three different stress conditions that are important in potato cultivation were also tested: salt stress, low temperature and deficiency in the macronutrient phosphate. For the last two stresses, significant decreases in photosynthetic activity could be shown, revealing potential for stress detection with CF based tools. In general, our findings show the potential of high-throughput phenotyping for physiological research and breeding in potato.
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- Aina E Prinzenberg
- Solynta, Dreijenlaan 2, Wageningen 6703HA, The Netherlands
- Horticulture and Product Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, P.O. Box 16, Wageningen 6700AA, The Netherlands
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- Horticulture and Product Physiology, Wageningen University and Research, P.O. Box 16, Wageningen 6700AA, The Netherlands
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- Solynta, Dreijenlaan 2, Wageningen 6703HA, The Netherlands
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- Solynta, Dreijenlaan 2, Wageningen 6703HA, The Netherlands
- Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research, P.O. Box 386, Wageningen 6700 AJ, The Netherlands
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Draft Genome Sequence of Trebouxiophyceae sp. Strain KSI-1, Isolated from an Island Hot Spring. Microbiol Resour Announc 2018; 7:MRA01185-18. [PMID: 30533743 PMCID: PMC6256579 DOI: 10.1128/mra.01185-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2018] [Accepted: 09/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Trebouxiophyceae sp. KSI-1 is a green alga isolated from a seashore hot spring on Satsuma Iōjima in Kagoshima, Japan, and is highly tolerant to oxidative stress. Trebouxiophyceae sp. KSI-1 is a green alga isolated from a seashore hot spring on Satsuma Iōjima in Kagoshima, Japan, and is highly tolerant to oxidative stress. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of this strain, thereby providing an insight into the genetic basis for its oxidative stress tolerance.
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Liu Q. Improvement for agronomically important traits by gene engineering in sweetpotato. BREEDING SCIENCE 2017; 67:15-26. [PMID: 28465664 PMCID: PMC5407918 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.16126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2016] [Accepted: 12/24/2016] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Sweetpotato is the seventh most important food crop in the world. It is mainly used for human food, animal feed, and for manufacturing starch and alcohol. This crop, a highly heterozygous, generally self-incompatible, outcrossing polyploidy, poses numerous challenges for the conventional breeding. Its productivity and quality are often limited by abiotic and biotic stresses. Gene engineering has been shown to have the great potential for improving the resistance to these stresses as well as the nutritional quality of sweetpotato. To date, an Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation system has been developed for a wide range of sweetpotato genotypes. Several genes associated with salinity and drought tolerance, diseases and pests resistance, and starch, carotenoids and anthocyanins biosynthesis have been isolated and characterized from sweetpotato. Gene engineering has been used to improve abiotic and biotic stresses resistance and quality of this crop. This review summarizes major research advances made so far in improving agronomically important traits by gene engineering in sweetpotato and suggests future prospects for research in this field.
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- Qingchang Liu
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University,
Beijing 100193,
China
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Shimazaki T, Endo T, Kasuga M, Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K, Watanabe KN, Kikuchi A. Evaluation of the yield of abiotic-stress-tolerant AtDREB1A transgenic potato under saline conditions in advance of field trials. BREEDING SCIENCE 2016; 66:703-710. [PMID: 28163586 PMCID: PMC5282753 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.16054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Accepted: 08/10/2016] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Cultivated potato is a drought-, salinity-, and frost-sensitive species. The transgenic approach is one of the methods used to mitigate abiotic stress. The utility of transgenic potatoes that have abiotic stress tolerance should be judged from their yield under stress conditions. In order to establish transgenic potato lines with the AtDREB1A gene that could be used in practical applications, we screened candidate lines in a growth room with growth profiles under non-stress conditions rather than the expression level of transgene. After identifying better transgenic lines (D163 and D164), yield of those lines under stress conditions was evaluated in the special netted-house. Although the yield was lower than the yield under non-stress conditions, two selected transgenic lines were able to maintain their yield under high saline conditions (EC > 10 mS/cm). In this study, fertilizer was not added beyond what was already contained in the soil mix in order to evaluate the yield of the transgenic lines under saline conditions in as simple a manner as possible. In future studies, it will be necessary to evaluate their yield in a farming context in an isolated field after assessing the environmental biosafety of these transgenic potato lines.
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- Takayoshi Shimazaki
- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Gene Research Center, University of Tsukuba,
1-1-1 Ten-noudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8752,
Japan
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- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Gene Research Center, University of Tsukuba,
1-1-1 Ten-noudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8752,
Japan
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- Biological Resources Division, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS),
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8686,
Japan
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo,
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657,
Japan
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- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Gene Research Center, University of Tsukuba,
1-1-1 Ten-noudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8752,
Japan
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- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Gene Research Center, University of Tsukuba,
1-1-1 Ten-noudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8752,
Japan
- Corresponding author (e-mail: )
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Dessaux Y, Grandclément C, Faure D. Engineering the Rhizosphere. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 21:266-278. [PMID: 26818718 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2016.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2015] [Revised: 12/14/2015] [Accepted: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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All components of the rhizosphere can be engineered to promote plant health and growth, two features that strongly depend upon the interactions of living organisms with their environment. This review describes the progress in plant and microbial molecular genetics and ecology that has led to a wealth of potential applications. Recent efforts especially deal with the plant defense machinery that is instrumental in engineering plant resistance to biotic stresses. Another approach involves microbial population engineering rather than single strain engineering. More generally, the plants (and the associated microbes) are no longer seen as 'individual' but rather as a holobiont, in other words a unit of selection in evolution, a concept that holds great promise for future plant breeding programs.
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- Yves Dessaux
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France.
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
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Katoh A, Ashida H, Kasajima I, Shigeoka S, Yokota A. Potato yield enhancement through intensification of sink and source performances. BREEDING SCIENCE 2015; 65:77-84. [PMID: 25931982 PMCID: PMC4374566 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.65.77] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2014] [Accepted: 02/27/2015] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The combined total annual yield of six major crops (maize, rice, wheat, cassava, soybean, and potato; Solanum tuberosum L.) amounts to 3.1 billion tons. In recent years, staple crops have begun to be used as substitutes for fossil fuel and feedstocks. The diversion of crop products to fuels and industrial feedstocks has become a concern in many countries because of competition for arable lands and increased food prices. These concerns are definitely justified; however, if plant biotechnology succeeds in increasing crop yields to double the current yields, it will be possible to divert the surplus to purposes other than food without detrimental effects. Maize, rice, wheat, and soybean bear their sink organs in the aerial parts of the plant, and potato in the underground parts. Plants with aerial storage organs cannot accumulate products beyond their capacity to support the weight of these organs. In contrast, potato has heavy storage organs that are supported by the soil. In this mini-review, we introduce strategies of intensifying potato productivity and discuss recent advances in this research area.
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- Akira Katoh
- Center for Frontier Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology,
Takayama 8916-5, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192,
Japan
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency,
Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012,
Japan
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- Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University,
3-11 Tsurukabuto, Nada, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501,
Japan
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- Center for Frontier Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology,
Takayama 8916-5, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192,
Japan
- Institute of Floricultural Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization,
2-1, Fujimoto, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8519,
Japan
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- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency,
Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012,
Japan
- Department of Advanced Bioscience, Faculty of Agriculture, Kinki University,
3327-204 Nakamachi, Nara 631-8505,
Japan
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- Center for Frontier Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology,
Takayama 8916-5, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192,
Japan
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency,
Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012,
Japan
- Corresponding author (e-mail: )
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