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Jiang Y, Li J, Liu B, Cao D, Zong Y, Chang Y, Li Y. Novel Hina alleles created by genome editing increase grain hardness and reduce grain width in barley. Transgenic Res 2022; 31:637-645. [PMID: 35982368 DOI: 10.1007/s11248-022-00324-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The hordoindolina genes (Hina and Hinb) are believed to play critical roles in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) grain texture. In this study, we created novel alleles of the Hina gene using CRISPR/Cas9 (Clustered regularly inter spaced short palindromic repeat-associated protein, CRISPR-Cas) genome editing. Mutagenesis of single bases in these novel alleles led to loss of Hina protein function in edited lines. The grain hardness index of hina mutants was 95.5 on average, while that of the wild type was only 53.7, indicating successful conversion of soft barley into hard barley. Observation of cross-sectional grain structure using scanning electron microscopy revealed different adhesion levels between starch granules and protein matrix. Starch granules were loose and separated from the protein matrix in the wild type, but deeply trapped and tightly integrated with the protein matrix in hina02 mutants. In addition, the grain width and thousand-grain weight of the hina02 mutant were significantly lower than those of the wild type.
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- Yanyan Jiang
- Qinghai Normal University, Xining, 810008, China
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- Qinghai Normal University, Xining, 810008, China
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- Qinghai Province Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, 810008, China.,Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, 810008, China
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- Qinghai Province Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, 810008, China.,Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, 810008, China
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- Qinghai Province Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, 810008, China.,Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, 810008, China
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- Qinghai Province Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, 810008, China.,Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, 810008, China
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- Qinghai Province Key Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, 810008, China. .,Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, 810008, China.
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Sharma S, Katyal M, Singh N, Singh AM, Ahlawat AK. Comparison of effect of using hard and soft wheat on the high molecular weight-glutenin subunits profile and the quality of produced cookie. J Food Sci Technol 2022; 59:2545-2561. [PMID: 35734116 PMCID: PMC9206996 DOI: 10.1007/s13197-021-05272-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 09/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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UNLABELLED Twelve wheat genotypes with variable grain hardness were evaluated for grain, flour, pasting, dough rheological properties, high molecular weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GS) and their relationship with cookie quality characteristics. The degree of hardness played an important role in the expression of characters under study. Genotypes with higher grain hardness index (GHI) showed higher dough development time and dough stability. GHI and solvent retention capacity were positively related to each other and negatively to spread factor. GluD1 locus of majority of hard wheat genotypes showed 5 + 10 subunit while soft wheat (SW) genotypes with 2 + 12 subunit related to gluten quality and dough properties. Overall, variation in subunits at GluD1 locus led to greater variation amongst studied genotypes followed by GluB1 and GluA1. Subunits Null at GluA1, 20, 7 + 8 and 7 + 9 at GluB1, and 2 + 12 and 5 + 10 at GluD1 showed a profound effect on flour, dough and cookie quality. Distribution of different HMW-GS, gluten characteristics and GHI, thus emerged as major parameters for selection of wheat genotypes for development of cookies. SW (QBP 13-11) with the lowest GHI and HMW-GS profile (2*, 7 and 2 + 12 subunit) showed the highest cookie SF and the lowest BS, thereby, turning out to be the best suitable genotype for producing cookies. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13197-021-05272-5.
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- Sakshi Sharma
- Department of Food Science and Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, 143005 India
- Present Address: Grain Science and Technology Division, Defence Food Research Laboratory- DRDO, Mysuru, Karnataka 570011 India
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, 143005 India
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, 143005 India
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- Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012 India
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- Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012 India
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Wang J, Yang C, Zhao W, Wang Y, Qiao L, Wu B, Zhao J, Zheng X, Wang J, Zheng J. Genome-wide association study of grain hardness and novel Puroindoline alleles in common wheat. Mol Breed 2022; 42:40. [PMID: 37313507 PMCID: PMC10248618 DOI: 10.1007/s11032-022-01303-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2022] [Accepted: 06/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Grain hardness (HI) is a key trait for wheat milling and end-use quality. Puroindoline genes (PINs) are the major genes responsible for grain hardness, but other QTLs also contribute to the trait. Therefore, it is essential to identify loci associated with the HI and allelic variations of PINs in wheat. In the present study, 287 accessions from Shanxi province representing 70 years of wheat breeding were grown in one rainfed and two irrigated conditions to study grain hardness. Genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) was performed using the 15 K array, and the variability of PIN alleles was investigated. Among the accessions, hard wheat was most common. The broad-sense heritability (H2) among the three environments was 99.5%, suggesting HI was mainly affected by heredity. GWAS identified nine significant marker-trait associations (MTAs), including that PINs, which explained 7.03% to 17.70% of phenotypic variation. Four MTAs on chromosome 2A, 2B, 5A, and 7A were novel loci. As for diversity of PINs, a total of 11 PINs haplotypes were detected, composed of 12 allelic variations of the PIN gene. The most frequent haplotypes were Pina-D1a/Pinb-D1b (43.9%) and Pina-Dla/Pinb-D1p (18.8%), and both the frequency of Pina-D1a/Pinb-D1b and the HI value increased with breeding years were related to local dietary habits probably. A novel double deletion allele of the PINs haplotype was found in Donghei1206. These results will be useful not only in understanding of the genetics of the HI but also in breeding for improved grain texture. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11032-022-01303-x.
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- Junyou Wang
- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Molecular Improvement, College of Agronomy, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong, 030801 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Sustainable Dryland Agriculture, Institute of Wheat Research, Shanxi Agricultural University, Linfen, 041000 China
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- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Molecular Improvement, College of Agronomy, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong, 030801 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Sustainable Dryland Agriculture, Institute of Wheat Research, Shanxi Agricultural University, Linfen, 041000 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Sustainable Dryland Agriculture, Institute of Wheat Research, Shanxi Agricultural University, Linfen, 041000 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Sustainable Dryland Agriculture, Institute of Wheat Research, Shanxi Agricultural University, Linfen, 041000 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Sustainable Dryland Agriculture, Institute of Wheat Research, Shanxi Agricultural University, Linfen, 041000 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Sustainable Dryland Agriculture, Institute of Wheat Research, Shanxi Agricultural University, Linfen, 041000 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Sustainable Dryland Agriculture, Institute of Wheat Research, Shanxi Agricultural University, Linfen, 041000 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Sustainable Dryland Agriculture, Institute of Wheat Research, Shanxi Agricultural University, Linfen, 041000 China
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Komura S, Jinno H, Sonoda T, Oono Y, Handa H, Takumi S, Yoshida K, Kobayashi F. Genome sequencing-based coverage analyses facilitate high-resolution detection of deletions linked to phenotypes of gamma-irradiated wheat mutants. BMC Genomics 2022; 23:111. [PMID: 35139819 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-022-08344-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Gamma-irradiated mutants of Triticum aestivum L., hexaploid wheat, provide novel and agriculturally important traits and are used as breeding materials. However, the identification of causative genomic regions of mutant phenotypes is challenging because of the large and complicated genome of hexaploid wheat. Recently, the combined use of high-quality reference genome sequences of common wheat and cost-effective resequencing technologies has made it possible to evaluate genome-wide polymorphisms, even in complex genomes. RESULTS To investigate whether the genome sequencing approach can effectively detect structural variations, such as deletions, frequently caused by gamma irradiation, we selected a grain-hardness mutant from the gamma-irradiated population of Japanese elite wheat cultivar "Kitahonami." The Hardness (Ha) locus, including the puroindoline protein-encoding genes Pina-D1 and Pinb-D1 on the short arm of chromosome 5D, primarily regulates the grain hardness variation in common wheat. We performed short-read genome sequencing of wild-type and grain-hardness mutant plants, and subsequently aligned their short reads to the reference genome of the wheat cultivar "Chinese Spring." Genome-wide comparisons of depth-of-coverage between wild-type and mutant strains detected ~ 130 Mbp deletion on the short arm of chromosome 5D in the mutant genome. Molecular markers for this deletion were applied to the progeny populations generated by a cross between the wild-type and the mutant. A large deletion in the region including the Ha locus was associated with the mutant phenotype, indicating that the genome sequencing is a powerful and efficient approach for detecting a deletion marker of a gamma-irradiated mutant phenotype. In addition, we investigated a pre-harvest sprouting tolerance mutant and identified a 67.8 Mbp deletion on chromosome 3B where Viviparous-B1 and GRAS family transcription factors are located. Co-dominant markers designed to detect the deletion-polymorphism confirmed the association with low germination rate, leading to pre-harvest sprouting tolerance. CONCLUSIONS Short read-based genome sequencing of gamma-irradiated mutants facilitates the identification of large deletions linked to mutant phenotypes when combined with segregation analyses in progeny populations. This method allows effective application of mutants with agriculturally important traits in breeding using marker-assisted selection.
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Singh N, Virdi AS, Katyal M, Kaur A, Kaur D, Ahlawat AK, Singh AM, Kumar Sharma R. Evaluation of heat stress through delayed sowing on physicochemical and functional characteristics of grains, whole meals and flours of India wheat. Food Chem 2020; 344:128725. [PMID: 33279352 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2020.128725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2020] [Revised: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 11/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The physicochemical and functional characteristics of grain, meal and flour of timely sown wheat (TSW) and delayed sown wheat (DSW) were compared to see the effects of heat stress (HS). TSW and DSW of different lines were sown as per the approved timings. DSW experienced higher temperature during flowering and had shorter vegetative and maturation period than TSW. Pasting and dough rheological properties were measured using Rapid Visco-Analyser and Farinograph, respectively, while gliadins and glutenins profiling was done by SDS-PAGE. Delayed sowing decreased grain yield and diameter while increased protein and all categories of gliadins and high molecular weight glutenins. DSW showed higher peak viscosity, breakdown-viscosity and dough stability and lower setback viscosity, damaged starch, arabinoxylans and water absorption than TSW. HS in DSW appeared to lower starch synthesis causing proportionate increase in grain hardness and proteins content leading to changes in milling and rheological characteristics.
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- Narpinder Singh
- Department of Food Science and Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, India.
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, India
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, India
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, India
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, India
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- Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
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- Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
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- Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
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Kiseleva AA, Leonova IN, Pshenichnikova TA, Salina EA. Dissection of novel candidate genes for grain texture in Russian wheat varieties. Plant Mol Biol 2020; 104:219-233. [PMID: 32617826 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-020-01025-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 06/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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- Antonina A Kiseleva
- The Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICG SB RAS), Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10, Novosibirsk, Russia, 630090.
- Kurchatov Genomics Center, Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10, Novosibirsk, Russia, 630090.
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- The Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICG SB RAS), Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10, Novosibirsk, Russia, 630090
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- The Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICG SB RAS), Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10, Novosibirsk, Russia, 630090
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- Kurchatov Genomics Center, Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10, Novosibirsk, Russia, 630090
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Eburuche OB, Attaugwu RN, Ufondu HE, Uvere PO. Composition and hardness of malting red and white kaffir sorghum [ Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] dried under the sun. J Food Sci Technol 2019; 56:3513-3523. [PMID: 31274919 DOI: 10.1007/s13197-019-03843-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 05/16/2019] [Accepted: 05/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This investigation determined how changes in chemical composition of malting red and white kaffir sorghum grains dried under the sun affected the resistance of the malts to fracture as determined by the Monsanto Hardness Tester. The sorghum grains were malted by a modification of the 2-step wet steep method and dried under the sun. The results showed that malting increased diastatic activity to peak values of 78.40°L and 56°L in the red and white malts; moisture content from 115 to 165 g/kg and 125 to 170 g/kg, crude protein from 104.20 to 183 g/kg and 92.8 to 153.20 g/kg respectively but decreased the fat content. Grain hardness decreased from 83.20 to 42.50 N in the red malts and from 72.70 to 39.30 N in the white. The increases in diastatic activity, moisture, crude protein and reduced fat contents appear to have contributed most to the reduction in grain hardness.
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- Obinna Banito Eburuche
- 1Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State Nigeria
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- 1Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State Nigeria
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- 1Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State Nigeria
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Wang Q, Li Y, Sun F, Li X, Wang P, Chang J, Wang Y, Yang G, He G. Co-expression of high-molecular-weight glutenin subunit 1Ax1 and Puroindoline a (Pina) genes in transgenic durum wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. durum) improves milling and pasting quality. BMC Plant Biol 2019; 19:126. [PMID: 30947699 PMCID: PMC6449967 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-019-1734-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2018] [Accepted: 03/20/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Durum wheat is considered not suitable for making many food products that bread wheat can. This limitation is largely due to: (i) lack of grain-hardness controlling genes (Puroindoline a and b) and consequently extremely-hard kernel; (ii) lack of high- and low-molecular-weight glutenin subunit loci (Glu-D1 and Glu-D3) that contribute to gluten strength. To improve food processing quality of durum wheat, we stacked transgenic Pina and HMW-glutenin subunit 1Ax1 in durum wheat and developed lines with medium-hard kernel texture. RESULTS Here, we demonstrated that co-expression of Pina + 1Ax1 in durum wheat did not affect the milling performance that was enhanced by Pina expression. While stacking of Pina + 1Ax1 led to increased flour yield, finer flour particles and decreased starch damage compared to the control lines. Interestingly, Pina and 1Ax1 co-expression showed synergistic effects on the pasting attribute peak viscosity. Moreover, Pina and 1Ax1 co-expression suggests that PINA impacts gluten aggregation via interaction with gluten protein matrix. CONCLUSIONS The results herein may fill the gap of grain hardness between extremely-hard durum wheat and the soft kernel durum wheat, the latter of which has been developed recently. Our results may also serve as a proof of concept that stacking Puroindolines and other genes contributing to wheat end-use quality from the A and/or D genomes could improve the above-mentioned bottleneck traits of durum wheat and help to expand its culinary uses.
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- Qiong Wang
- The Genetic Engineering International Cooperation Base of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Chinese Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, 430074 China
- College of Life Science and Health, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430065 China
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- The Genetic Engineering International Cooperation Base of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Chinese Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, 430074 China
- Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 190 Frelinghuysen Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA
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- The Genetic Engineering International Cooperation Base of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Chinese Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, 430074 China
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- The Genetic Engineering International Cooperation Base of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Chinese Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, 430074 China
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- The Genetic Engineering International Cooperation Base of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Chinese Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, 430074 China
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- The Genetic Engineering International Cooperation Base of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Chinese Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, 430074 China
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- The Genetic Engineering International Cooperation Base of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Chinese Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, 430074 China
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- The Genetic Engineering International Cooperation Base of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Chinese Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, 430074 China
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- The Genetic Engineering International Cooperation Base of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Chinese Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, 430074 China
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Ali I, Sardar Z, Rasheed A, Mahmood T. Molecular characterization of the puroindoline-a and b alleles in synthetic hexaploid wheats and in silico functional and structural insights into Pina-D1. J Theor Biol 2015; 376:1-7. [PMID: 25865523 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2014] [Revised: 03/22/2015] [Accepted: 04/01/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Kernel hardness determined by two tightly linked Puroindoline genes, Pina-D1 and Pinb-D1, located on chromosome 5DS define commercially important characteristics, uses, major grades and export markets of wheat. This study was conducted to characterize Pina-D1 and Pinb-D1 alleles, in fifteen synthetic hexaploid wheats (SHWs) and its relation with grain hardness. Additionally, in silico functional analyses of puroindoline-a protein was conducted for better understanding of their putative importance in grain quality. Six different Pina-D1 alleles were identified in the SHWs, of which three i.e. Pina-D1a, Pina-D1c and Pina-D1d were already known whereas the other three had new sequence polymorphisms and were designated as Pina-D1w, Pina-D1x and Pina-D1y. Three different Pinb-D1 alleles were identified which have been reported earlier and no novel sequence polymorphism was detected. It was concluded that despite some primary, secondary and 3D structure variations, ligand binding sites and disulfide bonds discrepancies, the main features of PINA, i.e. the tryptophan-rich domain, the cysteine backbone, the signal peptide and basic identity of the proteins were all conserved. In silico analysis showed that puroindolines having binding capacity with small parts of prolamins causing celiac disease of human, however their potential role is not obvious. Conclusively, the new Pina-D1 alleles with modest effect on grain hardness, and insight into their functional and structural characteristics are important findings and their putative role in celiac disease require further studies to validate.
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- Iftikhar Ali
- Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
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- Department of Botany, Government Jahanzeb Postgraduate College Saidu Sharif, Swat, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan.
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Morris CF, Fuerst EP, Beecher BS, McLean DJ, James CP, Geng HW. Did the house mouse (Mus musculus L.) shape the evolutionary trajectory of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)? Ecol Evol 2013; 3:3447-54. [PMID: 24223281 PMCID: PMC3797490 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2013] [Revised: 07/09/2013] [Accepted: 07/10/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the most successful domesticated plant species in the world. The majority of wheat carries mutations in the Puroindoline genes that result in a hard kernel phenotype. An evolutionary explanation, or selective advantage, for the spread and persistence of these hard kernel mutations has yet to be established. Here, we demonstrate that the house mouse (Mus musculus L.) exerts a pronounced feeding preference for soft over hard kernels. When allele frequencies ranged from 0.5 to 0.009, mouse predation increased the hard allele frequency as much as 10-fold. Studies involving a single hard kernel mixed with ∼1000 soft kernels failed to recover the mutant kernel. Nevertheless, the study clearly demonstrates that the house mouse could have played a role in the evolution of wheat, and therefore the cultural trajectory of humankind.
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- C F Morris
- USDA-ARS Western Wheat Quality Laboratory Pullman, Washington
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