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Phosuwan S, Nounjan N, Theerakulpisut P, Siangliw M, Charoensawan V. Comparative quantitative trait loci analysis framework reveals relationships between salt stress responsive phenotypes and pathways. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 15:1264909. [PMID: 38463565 PMCID: PMC10920293 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1264909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 03/12/2024]
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Soil salinity is a complex abiotic stress that involves several biological pathways. Hence, focusing on a specific or a few salt-tolerant phenotypes is unlikely to provide comprehensive insights into the intricate and interwinding mechanisms that regulate salt responsiveness. In this study, we develop a heuristic framework for systematically integrating and comprehensively evaluating quantitative trait loci (QTL) analyses from multiple stress-related traits obtained by different studies. Making use of a combined set of 46 salinity-related traits from three independent studies that were based on the same chromosome segment substitution line (CSSL) population of rice (Oryza sativa), we demonstrate how our approach can address technical biases and limitations from different QTL studies and calling methods. This allows us to compile a comprehensive list of trait-specific and multi-trait QTLs, as well as salinity-related candidate genes. In doing so, we discover several novel relationships between traits that demonstrate similar trends of phenotype scores across the CSSLs, as well as the similarities between genomic locations that the traits were mapped to. Finally, we experimentally validate our findings by expression analyses and functional validations of several selected candidate genes from multiple pathways in rice and Arabidopsis orthologous genes, including OsKS7 (ENT-KAURENE SYNTHASE 7), OsNUC1 (NUCLEOLIN 1) and OsFRO1 (FERRIC REDUCTASE OXIDASE 1) to name a few. This work not only introduces a novel approach for conducting comparative analyses of multiple QTLs, but also provides a list of candidate genes and testable hypotheses for salinity-related mechanisms across several biological pathways.
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- Sunadda Phosuwan
- Doctor of Philosophy Program in Biochemistry (International Program), Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Biodiversity and Environmental Management Division, International College, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
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- Salt-tolerant Rice Research Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
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- National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Khlong Luang, Thailand
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Integrative Computational BioScience (ICBS) Center, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
- Division of Medical Bioinformatics, Research Department, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Siriraj Genomics, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- School of Chemistry, Institute of Science, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
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Gong H, Zhou Z, Bu C, Zhang D, Fang Q, Zhang XY, Song Y. Computational dissection of genetic variation modulating the response of multiple photosynthetic phenotypes to the light environment. BMC Genomics 2024; 25:81. [PMID: 38243219 PMCID: PMC10799405 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-024-09968-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 01/21/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND The expression of biological traits is modulated by genetics as well as the environment, and the level of influence exerted by the latter may vary across characteristics. Photosynthetic traits in plants are complex quantitative traits that are regulated by both endogenous genetic factors and external environmental factors such as light intensity and CO2 concentration. The specific processes impacted occur dynamically and continuously as the growth of plants changes. Although studies have been conducted to explore the genetic regulatory mechanisms of individual photosynthetic traits or to evaluate the effects of certain environmental variables on photosynthetic traits, the systematic impact of environmental variables on the dynamic process of integrated plant growth and development has not been fully elucidated. RESULTS In this paper, we proposed a research framework to investigate the genetic mechanism of high-dimensional complex photosynthetic traits in response to the light environment at the genome level. We established a set of high-dimensional equations incorporating environmental regulators to integrate functional mapping and dynamic screening of gene‒environment complex systems to elucidate the process and pattern of intrinsic genetic regulatory mechanisms of three types of photosynthetic phenotypes of Populus simonii that varied with light intensity. Furthermore, a network structure was established to elucidate the crosstalk among significant QTLs that regulate photosynthetic phenotypic systems. Additionally, the detection of key QTLs governing the response of multiple phenotypes to the light environment, coupled with the intrinsic differences in genotype expression, provides valuable insights into the regulatory mechanisms that drive the transition of photosynthetic activity and photoprotection in the face of varying light intensity gradients. CONCLUSIONS This paper offers a comprehensive approach to unraveling the genetic architecture of multidimensional variations in photosynthetic phenotypes, considering the combined impact of integrated environmental factors from multiple perspectives.
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- Huiying Gong
- College of Science, Beijing Forestry University, No. 35, Qinghua East Road, Beijing, 100083, P. R. China
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- College of Science, Beijing Forestry University, No. 35, Qinghua East Road, Beijing, 100083, P. R. China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, No. 35, Qinghua East Road, Beijing, 100083, P. R. China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, No. 35, Qinghua East Road, Beijing, 100083, P. R. China
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- Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, 990, Japan
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- College of Science, Beijing Forestry University, No. 35, Qinghua East Road, Beijing, 100083, P. R. China.
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, No. 35, Qinghua East Road, Beijing, 100083, P. R. China.
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Boussadia O, Zgallai H, Mzid N, Zaabar R, Braham M, Doupis G, Koubouris G. Physiological Responses of Two Olive Cultivars to Salt Stress. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:1926. [PMID: 37653843 PMCID: PMC10222188 DOI: 10.3390/plants12101926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Revised: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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The olive tree (Olea europaea L.) is the main fruit tree in most of the arid and semi-arid regions of Tunisia, which is where the problem of salinity is more pronounced. Salinity is one of the main factors that affects the productivity of olive trees, so the objective of this experiment was to study the effects of salinity on the photosynthesis, water relations, mineral status, and enzymatic activity of two cultivars of Olea europaea L., 'Chemlali' and 'Koroneiki'. The trial was conducted under controlled conditions in a greenhouse for a period of 49 days and included two treatments: T0 control and T100 (irrigation with 100 mM of NaCl solution). Under salinity stress, the photosynthesis, stomatal conductance, and leaves of both cultivars were negatively affected. 'Chemlali' showed greater tolerance to NaCl salinity, based on a progressive decrease in osmotic potential (Ψπ) followed by a progressive and synchronous decrease in gs, without a comparable decrease in photosynthesis. The water use efficiency (WUE) improved as a result. In addition, the K+/Na+ ratio in 'Chemlali' rose. This appears to be crucial for managing stress. Conversely, enzymatic activity showed an accumulation of glutathione peroxidase (GPX) in stressed plants. The catalase (CAT) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) content decreased in both stressed varieties. It can be concluded that the cultivar 'Koroneiki' is more susceptible to salt stress than the cultivar 'Chemlali', because the accumulation of GPX and the decreases in CAT and APX were more pronounced in this cultivar.
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- Olfa Boussadia
- Olive Institute, Ibn Khaldoun BP 14, Sousse 4061, Tunisia
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- National Institute of Agronomic Research of Tunisia, Rue Hedi Karray, Tunis 1004, Tunisia
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- Department of Agriculture Forestry and Nature (DAFNE), University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
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- Olive Institute, Ibn Khaldoun BP 14, Sousse 4061, Tunisia
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- Olive Institute, Ibn Khaldoun BP 14, Sousse 4061, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Olive Cultivation, Institute of Olive Tree, Subtropical Crops and Viticulture, Hellenic Agricultural Organization DIMITRA, Leoforos Karamanli 167, 73134 Chania, Crete, Greece
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- Laboratory of Olive Cultivation, Institute of Olive Tree, Subtropical Crops and Viticulture, Hellenic Agricultural Organization DIMITRA, Leoforos Karamanli 167, 73134 Chania, Crete, Greece
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Impact of Salinity on the Energy Transfer between Pigment-Protein Complexes in Photosynthetic Apparatus, Functions of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex and Photochemical Activities of Photosystem II and Photosystem I in Two Paulownia Lines. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24043108. [PMID: 36834517 PMCID: PMC9967322 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24043108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2022] [Revised: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The present study shows the effect of salinity on the functions of thylakoid membranes from two hybrid lines of Paulownia: Paulownia tomentosa x fortunei and Paulownia elongate x elongata, grown in a Hoagland solution with two NaCl concentrations (100 and 150 mM) and different exposure times (10 and 25 days). We observed inhibition of the photochemical activities of photosystem I (DCPIH2 → MV) and photosystem II (H2O → BQ) only after the short treatment (10 days) with the higher NaCl concentration. Data also revealed alterations in the energy transfer between pigment-protein complexes (fluorescence emission ratios F735/F685 and F695/F685), the kinetic parameters of the oxygen-evolving reactions (initial S0-S1 state distribution, misses (α), double hits (β) and blocked centers (SB)). Moreover, the experimental results showed that after prolonged treatment with NaCl Paulownia tomentosa x fortunei adapted to the higher concentration of NaCl (150 mM), while this concentration is lethal for Paulownia elongata x elongata. This study demonstrated the relationship between the salt-induced inhibition of the photochemistry of both photosystems and the salt-induced changes in the energy transfer between the pigment-protein complexes and the alterations in the Mn cluster of the oxygen-evolving complex under salt stress.
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Hasanuzzaman M, Zhou M, Shabala S. How Does Stomatal Density and Residual Transpiration Contribute to Osmotic Stress Tolerance? PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:494. [PMID: 36771579 PMCID: PMC9919688 DOI: 10.3390/plants12030494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2022] [Revised: 01/12/2023] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Osmotic stress that is induced by salinity and drought affects plant growth and development, resulting in significant losses to global crop production. Consequently, there is a strong need to develop stress-tolerant crops with a higher water use efficiency through breeding programs. Water use efficiency could be improved by decreasing stomatal transpiration without causing a reduction in CO2 uptake under osmotic stress conditions. The genetic manipulation of stomatal density could be one of the most promising strategies for breeders to achieve this goal. On the other hand, a substantial amount of water loss occurs across the cuticle without any contribution to carbon gain when the stomata are closed and under osmotic stress. The minimization of cuticular (otherwise known as residual) transpiration also determines the fitness and survival capacity of the plant under the conditions of a water deficit. The deposition of cuticular wax on the leaf epidermis acts as a limiting barrier for residual transpiration. However, the causal relationship between the frequency of stomatal density and plant osmotic stress tolerance and the link between residual transpiration and cuticular wax is not always straightforward, with controversial reports available in the literature. In this review, we focus on these controversies and explore the potential physiological and molecular aspects of controlling stomatal and residual transpiration water loss for improving water use efficiency under osmotic stress conditions via a comparative analysis of the performance of domesticated crops and their wild relatives.
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- Md. Hasanuzzaman
- Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
- International Research Centre for Environmental Membrane Biology, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
- School of Biological Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
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Xu T, Meng S, Zhu X, Di J, Zhu Y, Yang X, Yan W. Integrated GWAS and transcriptomic analysis reveal the candidate salt-responding genes regulating Na +/K + balance in barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 13:1004477. [PMID: 36777542 PMCID: PMC9910287 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1004477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2022] [Accepted: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Salt stress is one of the main abiotic stresses affecting crop yield and quality. Barley has strong salt tolerance, however, the underlying genetic basis is not fully clear, especially in the seedling stage. This study examined the ionic changes in barley core germplasms under the control and salt conditions. Genome-wide association study (GWAS) analysis revealed 54 significant SNPs from a pool of 25,342 SNPs distributed in 7 chromosomes (Chr) of the Illumina Barley 50K SNP array. These SNPs are associated with ion homeostasis traits, sodium (Na+) and potassium (K+) content, and Na+/K+ ratio representing five genomic regions on Chr 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in the leaves of worldwide barley accessions. And there are 3 SNP peaks located on the Chr 4, 6, and 7, which could be the "hot spots" regions for mining and identifying candidate genes for salt tolerance. Furthermore, 616 unique candidate genes were screened surrounding the significant SNPs, which are associated with transport proteins, protein kinases, binding proteins, and other proteins of unknown function. Meanwhile, transcriptomic analysis (RNA-Seq) was carried out to compare the salt-tolerant (CM72) and salt-sensitive (Gairdner) genotypes subjected to salt stress. And there was a greater accumulation of differentially expressed genes(DEGs) in Gairdner compared to CM72, mainly enriched in metabolic pathway, biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, photosynthesis, signal transduction,emphasizing the different transcriptional response in both genotypes following salt exposure. Combined GWAS and RNA-Seq analysis revealed 5 promising salt-responding genes (PGK2, BASS3, SINAT2, AQP, and SYT3) from the hot spot regions, which were verified between the salt-tolerant and salt-sensitive varieties by qRT-PCR. In all, these results provide candidate SNPs and genes responsible for salinity responding in barley, and a new idea for studying such genetic basis in similar crops.
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Wang Y, Chen G, Zeng F, Han Z, Qiu CW, Zeng M, Yang Z, Xu F, Wu D, Deng F, Xu S, Chater C, Korol A, Shabala S, Wu F, Franks P, Nevo E, Chen ZH. Molecular evidence for adaptive evolution of drought tolerance in wild cereals. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023; 237:497-514. [PMID: 36266957 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 10/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The considerable drought tolerance of wild cereal crop progenitors has diminished during domestication in the pursuit of higher productivity. Regaining this trait in cereal crops is essential for global food security but requires novel genetic insight. Here, we assessed the molecular evidence for natural variation of drought tolerance in wild barley (Hordeum spontaneum), wild emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccoides), and Brachypodium species collected from dry and moist habitats at Evolution Canyon, Israel (ECI). We report that prevailing moist vs dry conditions have differentially shaped the stomatal and photosynthetic traits of these wild cereals in their respective habitats. We present the genomic and transcriptomic evidence accounting for differences, including co-expression gene modules, correlated with physiological traits, and selective sweeps, driven by the xeric site conditions on the African Slope (AS) at ECI. Co-expression gene module 'circadian rhythm' was linked to significant drought-induced delay in flowering time in Brachypodium stacei genotypes. African Slope-specific differentially expressed genes are important in barley drought tolerance, verified by silencing Disease-Related Nonspecific Lipid Transfer 1 (DRN1), Nonphotochemical Quenching 4 (NPQ4), and Brassinosteroid-Responsive Ring-H1 (BRH1). Our results provide new genetic information for the breeding of resilient wheat and barley in a changing global climate with increasingly frequent drought events.
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- Yuanyuan Wang
- College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
- Hubei Insect Resources Utilization and Sustainable Pest Management Key Laboratory, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Central Laboratory, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Centre for Grain Industry, College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, 434025, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin'an, Hangzhou, 311300, China
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- College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611731, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Centre for Grain Industry, College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, 434025, China
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- College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Central Laboratory, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Centre for Grain Industry, College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, 434025, China
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AE, UK
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- Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, 34988384, Haifa, Israel
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, 7004, Australia
- School of Biological Science, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
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- College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, 34988384, Haifa, Israel
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- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
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Zahra S, Shaheen T, Qasim M, Mahmood-Ur-Rahman, Hussain M, Zulfiqar S, Shaukat K, Mehboob-Ur-Rahman. Genome-wide survey of HMA gene family and its characterization in wheat ( Triticum aestivum). PeerJ 2023; 11:e14920. [PMID: 36890869 PMCID: PMC9987320 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 01/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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Background Abiotic stresses, particularly drought and heavy metal toxicity, have presented a significant risk to long-term agricultural output around the world. Although the heavy-metal-associated domain (HMA) gene family has been widely explored in Arabidopsis and other plants, it has not been thoroughly studied in wheat (Triticum aestivum). This study was proposed to investigate the HMA gene family in wheat. Methods To analyze the phylogenetic relationships, gene structure, gene ontology, and conserved motifs, a comparative study of wheat HMA genes with the Arabidopsis genome was performed. Results A total of 27 T. aestivum proteins belonging to the HMA gene family were identified in this study, with amino acid counts ranging from 262 to 1,071. HMA proteins were found to be grouped into three subgroups in a phylogenetic tree, and closely related proteins in the tree showed the same expression patterns as motifs found in distinct subgroups. Gene structural study elucidated that intron and exon arrangement differed by family. Conclusion As a result, the current work offered important information regarding HMA family genes in the T. aestivum genome, which will be valuable in understanding their putative functions in other wheat species.
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- Sadaf Zahra
- Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Okara, Okara, Pakistan
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- Plant Genomics and Molecular Breeding Laboratory, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering College, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (NIBGE-C, PIEAS), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
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- Department of Botany, University of Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan
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- Plant Genomics and Molecular Breeding Laboratory, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering College, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (NIBGE-C, PIEAS), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
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Akbari M, Sabouri H, Sajadi SJ, Yarahmadi S, Ahangar L, Abedi A, Katouzi M. Mega Meta-QTLs: A Strategy for the Production of Golden Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Tolerant to Abiotic Stresses. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:genes13112087. [PMID: 36360327 PMCID: PMC9690463 DOI: 10.3390/genes13112087] [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: 10/15/2022] [Revised: 11/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Abiotic stresses cause a significant decrease in productivity and growth in agricultural products, especially barley. Breeding has been considered to create resistance against abiotic stresses. Pyramiding genes for tolerance to abiotic stresses through selection based on molecular markers connected to Mega MQTLs of abiotic tolerance can be one of the ways to reach Golden Barley. In this study, 1162 original QTLs controlling 116 traits tolerant to abiotic stresses were gathered from previous research and mapped from various populations. A consensus genetic map was made, including AFLP, SSR, RFLP, RAPD, SAP, DArT, EST, CAPS, STS, RGA, IFLP, and SNP markers based on two genetic linkage maps and 26 individual linkage maps. Individual genetic maps were created by integrating individual QTL studies into the pre-consensus map. The consensus map covered a total length of 2124.43 cM with an average distance of 0.25 cM between markers. In this study, 585 QTLs and 191 effective genes related to tolerance to abiotic stresses were identified in MQTLs. The most overlapping QTLs related to tolerance to abiotic stresses were observed in MQTL6.3. Furthermore, three MegaMQTL were identified, which explained more than 30% of the phenotypic variation. MQTLs, candidate genes, and linked molecular markers identified are essential in barley breeding and breeding programs to develop produce cultivars resistant to abiotic stresses.
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- Mahjoubeh Akbari
- Department of Plant Production, Collage of Agriculture Science and Natural Resource, Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad-e Kavus 4971799151, Iran
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- Department of Plant Production, Collage of Agriculture Science and Natural Resource, Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad-e Kavus 4971799151, Iran
- Correspondence: (H.S.); (M.K.); Tel.: +98-9111438917 (H.S.); +41-779660486 (M.K.)
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- Department of Plant Production, Collage of Agriculture Science and Natural Resource, Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad-e Kavus 4971799151, Iran
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- Horticulture-Crops Reseaech Department, Golestan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Gorgan 4969186951, Iran
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- Department of Plant Production, Collage of Agriculture Science and Natural Resource, Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad-e Kavus 4971799151, Iran
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht 4199613776, Iran
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- Crop Génome Dynamics Group, Agroscope Changins, 1260 Nyon, Switzerland
- Correspondence: (H.S.); (M.K.); Tel.: +98-9111438917 (H.S.); +41-779660486 (M.K.)
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Makhtoum S, Sabouri H, Gholizadeh A, Ahangar L, Katouzi M. QTLs Controlling Physiological and Morphological Traits of Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Seedlings under Salinity, Drought, and Normal Conditions. BIOTECH 2022; 11:biotech11030026. [PMID: 35892931 PMCID: PMC9326576 DOI: 10.3390/biotech11030026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2022] [Revised: 07/09/2022] [Accepted: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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To identify the genomic regions for the physiological and morphological traits of barley genotypes under normal salinity and drought, a set of 103 recombinant inbred line (RIL) populations, developed between Badia and Kavir crosses, was evaluated under phytotron conditions in a completely randomized design in 2019. Linkage maps were prepared using 152 SSR markers, 72 ISSR, 7 IRAP, 29 CAAT, 27 SCoT, and 15 iPBS alleles. The markers were assigned to seven barley chromosomes and covered 999.29 centimorgans (cM) of the barley genome. In addition, composite interval mapping showed 8, 9, and 26 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) under normal, drought, and salinity stress conditions, respectively. Our results indicate the importance of chromosomes 1, 4, 5, and 7 in salinity stress. These regions were involved in genes controlling stomata length (LR), leaf number (LN), leaf weight (LW), and genetic score (SCR). Three major stable pleiotropic QTLs (i.e., qSCS-1, qRLS-1, and qLNN-1) were associated with SCR, root length (RL), and root number (RN) in both treatments (i.e., normal and salinity), and two major stable pleiotropic QTLs (i.e., qSNN-3 and qLWS-3) associated with the stomata number (SN) and LW appeared to be promising for marker-assisted selection (MAS). Two major-effect QTLs (i.e., SCot8-B-CAAT5-D and HVM54-Bmag0571) on chromosomes 1 and 2 were characterized for their positive allele effect, which can be used to develop barley varieties concerning drought conditions. The new alleles (i.e., qLWS-4a, qSLS-4, qLNS-7b, qSCS-7, and qLNS-7a) identified in this study are useful in pyramiding elite alleles for molecular breeding and marker assisted selection for improving salinity tolerance in barley.
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- Somayyeh Makhtoum
- Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture Science and Natural Resources, Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad 4971799151, Iran; (S.M.); (A.G.); (L.A.)
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- Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture Science and Natural Resources, Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad 4971799151, Iran; (S.M.); (A.G.); (L.A.)
- Correspondence: or (H.S.); (M.K.); Tel.: +98-91-1143-8917 (H.S.); +41-77-9660486 (M.K.)
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- Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture Science and Natural Resources, Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad 4971799151, Iran; (S.M.); (A.G.); (L.A.)
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- Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture Science and Natural Resources, Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad 4971799151, Iran; (S.M.); (A.G.); (L.A.)
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- Crop Génome Dynamics Group, Agroscope Changins, 1260 Nyon, Switzerland
- Correspondence: or (H.S.); (M.K.); Tel.: +98-91-1143-8917 (H.S.); +41-77-9660486 (M.K.)
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scCAN: single-cell clustering using autoencoder and network fusion. Sci Rep 2022; 12:10267. [PMID: 35715568 PMCID: PMC9206025 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-14218-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 06/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Unsupervised clustering of single-cell RNA sequencing data (scRNA-seq) is important because it allows us to identify putative cell types. However, the large number of cells (up to millions), the high-dimensionality of the data (tens of thousands of genes), and the high dropout rates all present substantial challenges in single-cell analysis. Here we introduce a new method, named single-cell Clustering using Autoencoder and Network fusion (scCAN), that can overcome these challenges to accurately segregate different cell types in large and sparse scRNA-seq data. In an extensive analysis using 28 real scRNA-seq datasets (more than three million cells) and 243 simulated datasets, we validate that scCAN: (1) correctly estimates the number of true cell types, (2) accurately segregates cells of different types, (3) is robust against dropouts, and (4) is fast and memory efficient. We also compare scCAN with CIDR, SEURAT3, Monocle3, SHARP, and SCANPY. scCAN outperforms these state-of-the-art methods in terms of both accuracy and scalability. The scCAN package is available at https://cran.r-project.org/package=scCAN. Data and R scripts are available at http://sccan.tinnguyen-lab.com/
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Overview of Identified Genomic Regions Associated with Various Agronomic and Physiological Traits in Barley under Abiotic Stresses. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/app12105189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Climate change has caused breeders to focus on varieties that are able to grow under unfavorable conditions, such as drought, high and low temperatures, salinity, and other stressors. In recent decades, progress in biotechnology and its related tools has provided opportunities to dissect and decipher the genetic basis of tolerance to various stress conditions. One such approach is the identification of genomic regions that are linked with specific or multiple characteristics. Cereal crops have a key role in supplying the energy required for human and animal populations. However, crop products are dramatically affected by various environmental stresses. Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is one of the oldest domesticated crops that is cultivated globally. Research has shown that, compared with other cereals, barley is well adapted to various harsh environmental conditions. There is ample literature regarding these responses to abiotic stressors, as well as the genomic regions associated with the various morpho-physiological and biochemical traits of stress tolerance. This review focuses on (i) identifying the tolerance mechanisms that are important for stable growth and development, and (ii) the applicability of QTL mapping and association analysis in identifying genomic regions linked with stress-tolerance traits, in order to help breeders in marker-assisted selection (MAS) to quickly screen tolerant germplasms in their breeding cycles. Overall, the information presented here will inform and assist future barley breeding programs.
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Wang J, Fu X, Zhang S, Chen G, Li S, Shangguan T, Zheng Y, Xu F, Chen ZH, Xu S. Evolutionary and Regulatory Pattern Analysis of Soybean Ca 2+ ATPases for Abiotic Stress Tolerance. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:898256. [PMID: 35665149 PMCID: PMC9161174 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.898256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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P2-type Ca2+ ATPases are responsible for cellular Ca2+ transport, which plays an important role in plant development and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses. However, the role of P2-type Ca2+ ATPases in stress response and stomatal regulation is still elusive in soybean. In this study, a total of 12 P2-type Ca2+ ATPases genes (GmACAs and GmECAs) were identified from the genome of Glycine max. We analyzed the evolutionary relationship, conserved motif, functional domain, gene structure and location, and promoter elements of the family. Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging analysis showed that vegetable soybean leaves are damaged to different extents under salt, drought, cold, and shade stresses. Real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) analysis demonstrated that most of the GmACAs and GmECAs are up-regulated after drought, cold, and NaCl treatment, but are down-regulated after shading stress. Microscopic observation showed that different stresses caused significant stomatal closure. Spatial location and temporal expression analysis suggested that GmACA8, GmACA9, GmACA10, GmACA12, GmACA13, and GmACA11 might promote stomatal closure under drought, cold, and salt stress. GmECA1 might regulate stomatal closure in shading stress. GmACA1 and GmECA3 might have a negative function on cold stress. The results laid an important foundation for further study on the function of P2-type Ca2+ ATPase genes GmACAs and GmECAs for breeding abiotic stress-tolerant vegetable soybean.
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- Jian Wang
- Central Laboratory, State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- Central Laboratory, State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- Taizhou Seed Administration Station, Taizhou, China
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- Central Laboratory, State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- Central Laboratory, State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Agriculture and Food Science, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, China
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- Central Laboratory, State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- Central Laboratory, State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- Central Laboratory, State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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Patial M, Chauhan R, Chaudhary HK, Pramanick KK, Shukla AK, Kumar V, Verma RPS. Au-courant and novel technologies for efficient doubled haploid development in barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.). Crit Rev Biotechnol 2022; 43:575-593. [PMID: 35435095 DOI: 10.1080/07388551.2022.2050181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Bounteous modern and innovative biotechnological tools have resulted in progressive development in the barley breeding program. Doubled haploids developed (homozygous lines) in a single generation is significant. Since the first discovery of haploid plants in 1920 and, in particular, after discovering in vitro androgenesis in 1964 by Guha and Maheshwari, the doubled haploidy techniques have been progressively developed and constantly improved. It has shortened the cultivar development time and has been extensively used in: genetic studies, gene mapping, marker/trait association, and QTL studies. In barley, the haploid occurrence developed gradually from being a sporadic and random process (spontaneous) to haploid development by in vivo method of modified pollination or by in vitro culture of immature male or female gametophytes. Although significant improvement in DH induction protocols has been made, challenges still exist for improvement in areas such as: low efficiency, albinism, genotypic specificity etc. Here, the paper focuses on: haploidization via different in vitro, in vivo techniques, the recent advances technologies like centromere-mediated haploidization, hap induction gene, and Doubled haploid CRISPR. The au-courant work of different researchers in barley using these technologies is reviewed. Studies on different factors affecting haploid induction and work on genome doubling of barley haploids to produce DH lines via spontaneous and induced technologies has also been highlighted.
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- Madhu Patial
- ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Station, Shimla, Himachal, India
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- ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Station, Shimla, Himachal, India
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- ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Station, Shimla, Himachal, India
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- ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Station, Shimla, Himachal, India
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Lentini A, Cheng H, Noble JC, Papanicolaou N, Coucoravas C, Andrews N, Deng Q, Enge M, Reinius B. Elastic dosage compensation by X-chromosome upregulation. Nat Commun 2022; 13:1854. [PMID: 35388014 PMCID: PMC8987076 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29414-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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X-chromosome inactivation and X-upregulation are the fundamental modes of chromosome-wide gene regulation that collectively achieve dosage compensation in mammals, but the regulatory link between the two remains elusive and the X-upregulation dynamics are unknown. Here, we use allele-resolved single-cell RNA-seq combined with chromatin accessibility profiling and finely dissect their separate effects on RNA levels during mouse development. Surprisingly, we uncover that X-upregulation elastically tunes expression dosage in a sex- and lineage-specific manner, and moreover along varying degrees of X-inactivation progression. Male blastomeres achieve X-upregulation upon zygotic genome activation while females experience two distinct waves of upregulation, upon imprinted and random X-inactivation; and ablation of Xist impedes female X-upregulation. Female cells carrying two active X chromosomes lack upregulation, yet their collective RNA output exceeds that of a single hyperactive allele. Importantly, this conflicts the conventional dosage compensation model in which naïve female cells are initially subject to biallelic X-upregulation followed by X-inactivation of one allele to correct the X dosage. Together, our study provides key insights to the chain of events of dosage compensation, explaining how transcript copy numbers can remain remarkably stable across developmental windows wherein severe dose imbalance would otherwise be experienced by the cell.
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- Antonio Lentini
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Shahzad B, Yun P, Shabala L, Zhou M, Sellamuthu G, Venkataraman G, Chen ZH, Shabala S. Unravelling the physiological basis of salinity stress tolerance in cultivated and wild rice species. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY : FPB 2022; 49:351-364. [PMID: 35189073 DOI: 10.1071/fp21336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2021] [Accepted: 01/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Wild rice species provide a rich source of genetic diversity for possible introgression of salinity stress tolerance in cultivated rice. We investigated the physiological basis of salinity stress tolerance in Oryza species by using six rice genotypes (Oryza sativa L.) and four wild rice species. Three weeks of salinity treatment significantly (P <0.05) reduced physiological and growth indices of all cultivated and wild rice lines. However, the impact of salinity-induced growth reduction differed substantially among accessions. Salt tolerant accessions showed better control over gas exchange properties, exhibited higher tissue tolerance, and retained higher potassium ion content despite higher sodium ion accumulation in leaves. Wild rice species showed relatively lower and steadier xylem sap sodium ion content over the period of 3weeks analysed, suggesting better control over ionic sodium xylem loading and its delivery to shoots with efficient vacuolar sodium ion sequestration. Contrary to this, saline sensitive genotypes managed to avoid initial Na+ loading but failed to accomplish this in the long term and showed higher sap sodium ion content. Conclusively, our results suggest that wild rice genotypes have more efficient control over xylem sodium ion loading, rely on tissue tolerance mechanisms and allow for a rapid osmotic adjustment by using sodium ions as cheap osmoticum for osmoregulation.
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- Babar Shahzad
- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas. 7001, Australia
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas. 7001, Australia
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas. 7001, Australia
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas. 7001, Australia
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- Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600113, India; and Forest Molecular Entomology Laboratory, Excellent Team for Mitigation (ETM), Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague 16500, Czech Republic
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- Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600113, India
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- School of Science, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas. 7001, Australia; and International Research Centre for Environmental Membrane Biology, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
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Yong MT, Solis CA, Amatoury S, Sellamuthu G, Rajakani R, Mak M, Venkataraman G, Shabala L, Zhou M, Ghannoum O, Holford P, Huda S, Shabala S, Chen ZH. Proto Kranz-like leaf traits and cellular ionic regulation are associated with salinity tolerance in a halophytic wild rice. STRESS BIOLOGY 2022; 2:8. [PMID: 37676369 PMCID: PMC10441962 DOI: 10.1007/s44154-021-00016-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 09/08/2023]
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Species of wild rice (Oryza spp.) possess a wide range of stress tolerance traits that can be potentially utilized in breeding climate-resilient cultivated rice cultivars (Oryza sativa) thereby aiding global food security. In this study, we conducted a greenhouse trial to evaluate the salinity tolerance of six wild rice species, one cultivated rice cultivar (IR64) and one landrace (Pokkali) using a range of electrophysiological, imaging, and whole-plant physiological techniques. Three wild species (O. latifolia, O. officinalis and O. coarctata) were found to possess superior salinity stress tolerance. The underlying mechanisms, however, were strikingly different. Na+ accumulation in leaves of O. latifolia, O. officinalis and O. coarctata were significantly higher than the tolerant landrace, Pokkali. Na+ accumulation in mesophyll cells was only observed in O. coarctata, suggesting that O. officinalis and O. latifolia avoid Na+ accumulation in mesophyll by allocating Na+ to other parts of the leaf. The finding also suggests that O. coarctata might be able to employ Na+ as osmolyte without affecting its growth. Further study of Na+ allocation in leaves will be helpful to understand the mechanisms of Na+ accumulation in these species. In addition, O. coarctata showed Proto Kranz-like leaf anatomy (enlarged bundle sheath cells and lower numbers of mesophyll cells), and higher expression of C4-related genes (e.g., NADPME, PPDK) and was a clear outlier with respect to salinity tolerance among the studied wild and cultivated Oryza species. The unique phylogenetic relationship of O. coarctata with C4 grasses suggests the potential of this species for breeding rice with high photosynthetic rate under salinity stress in the future.
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- Miing-Tiem Yong
- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
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- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, College of Science and Engineering, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia
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- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
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- Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, -600113, Chennai, India
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- Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, -600113, Chennai, India
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- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
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- Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, -600113, Chennai, India
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, College of Science and Engineering, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, College of Science and Engineering, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
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- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
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- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, College of Science and Engineering, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia.
- International Research Centre for Environmental Membrane Biology, Foshan University, Foshan, 528000, China.
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- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia.
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia.
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Xie J, Fernandes SB, Mayfield-Jones D, Erice G, Choi M, E Lipka A, Leakey ADB. Optical topometry and machine learning to rapidly phenotype stomatal patterning traits for maize QTL mapping. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2021; 187:1462-1480. [PMID: 34618057 PMCID: PMC8566313 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2021] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Stomata are adjustable pores on leaf surfaces that regulate the tradeoff of CO2 uptake with water vapor loss, thus having critical roles in controlling photosynthetic carbon gain and plant water use. The lack of easy, rapid methods for phenotyping epidermal cell traits have limited discoveries about the genetic basis of stomatal patterning. A high-throughput epidermal cell phenotyping pipeline is presented here and used for quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping in field-grown maize (Zea mays). The locations and sizes of stomatal complexes and pavement cells on images acquired by an optical topometer from mature leaves were automatically determined. Computer estimated stomatal complex density (SCD; R2 = 0.97) and stomatal complex area (SCA; R2 = 0.71) were strongly correlated with human measurements. Leaf gas exchange traits were genetically correlated with the dimensions and proportions of stomatal complexes (rg = 0.39-0.71) but did not correlate with SCD. Heritability of epidermal traits was moderate to high (h2 = 0.42-0.82) across two field seasons. Thirty-six QTL were consistently identified for a given trait in both years. Twenty-four clusters of overlapping QTL for multiple traits were identified, with univariate versus multivariate single marker analysis providing evidence consistent with pleiotropy in multiple cases. Putative orthologs of genes known to regulate stomatal patterning in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) were located within some, but not all, of these regions. This study demonstrates how discovery of the genetic basis for stomatal patterning can be accelerated in maize, a C4 model species where these processes are poorly understood.
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- Jiayang Xie
- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
- Center for Digital Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
- Center for Digital Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
- Center for Digital Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
- Center for Digital Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
- Author for communication: , cor2">Present address: Agrotecnologías Naturales S.L., 43762 Tarragona, Spain
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Progressive Genomic Approaches to Explore Drought- and Salt-Induced Oxidative Stress Responses in Plants under Changing Climate. PLANTS 2021; 10:plants10091910. [PMID: 34579441 PMCID: PMC8471759 DOI: 10.3390/plants10091910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2021] [Revised: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Drought and salinity are the major environmental abiotic stresses that negatively impact crop development and yield. To improve yields under abiotic stress conditions, drought- and salinity-tolerant crops are key to support world crop production and mitigate the demand of the growing world population. Nevertheless, plant responses to abiotic stresses are highly complex and controlled by networks of genetic and ecological factors that are the main targets of crop breeding programs. Several genomics strategies are employed to improve crop productivity under abiotic stress conditions, but traditional techniques are not sufficient to prevent stress-related losses in productivity. Within the last decade, modern genomics studies have advanced our capabilities of improving crop genetics, especially those traits relevant to abiotic stress management. This review provided updated and comprehensive knowledge concerning all possible combinations of advanced genomics tools and the gene regulatory network of reactive oxygen species homeostasis for the appropriate planning of future breeding programs, which will assist sustainable crop production under salinity and drought conditions.
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Solis CA, Yong MT, Venkataraman G, Milham P, Zhou M, Shabala L, Holford P, Shabala S, Chen ZH. Sodium sequestration confers salinity tolerance in an ancestral wild rice. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2021; 172:1594-1608. [PMID: 33619741 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2020] [Revised: 01/07/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Wild rice Oryza rufipogon, a progenitor of cultivated rice Oryza sativa L., possesses superior salinity tolerance and is a potential donor for breeding salinity tolerance traits in rice. However, a mechanistic basis of salinity tolerance in this donor species has not been established. Here, we examined salinity tolerance from the early vegetative stage to maturity in O. rufipogon in comparison with a salt-susceptible (Koshihikari) and a salt-tolerant (Reiziq) variety of O. sativa. We assessed their phylogeny and agronomical traits, photosynthetic performance, ion contents, as well as gene expression in response to salinity stress. Salt-tolerant O. rufipogon exhibited efficient leaf photosynthesis and less damage to leaf tissues during the course of salinity treatment. In addition, O. rufipogon showed a significantly higher tissue Na+ accumulation that is achieved by vacuolar sequestration compared to the salt tolerant O. sativa indica subspecies. These findings are further supported by the upregulation of genes involved with ion transport and sequestration (e.g. high affinity K+ transporter 1;4 [HKT1;4], Na+ /H+ exchanger 1 [NHX1] and vacuolar H+ -ATPase c [VHA-c]) in salt-tolerant O. rufipogon as well as by the close phylogenetic relationship of key salt-responsive genes in O. rufipogon to these in salt-tolerant wild rice species such as O. coarctata. Thus, the high accumulation of Na+ in the leaves of O. rufipogon acts as a cheap osmoticum to minimize the high energy cost of osmolyte biosynthesis and excessive reactive oxygen species production. These mechanisms demonstrated that O. rufipogon has important traits that can be used for improving salinity tolerance in cultivated rice.
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- Celymar Angela Solis
- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai, India
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- International Research Centre for Environmental Membrane Biology, Foshan University, Foshan, China
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- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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Prakash PT, Banan D, Paul RE, Feldman MJ, Xie D, Freyfogle L, Baxter I, Leakey ADB. Correlation and co-localization of QTL for stomatal density, canopy temperature, and productivity with and without drought stress in Setaria. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2021; 72:5024-5037. [PMID: 33893796 PMCID: PMC8219040 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erab166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Mechanistic modeling indicates that stomatal conductance could be reduced to improve water use efficiency (WUE) in C4 crops. Genetic variation in stomatal density and canopy temperature was evaluated in the model C4 genus, Setaria. Recombinant inbred lines (RILs) derived from a Setaria italica×Setaria viridis cross were grown with ample or limiting water supply under field conditions in Illinois. An optical profilometer was used to rapidly assess stomatal patterning, and canopy temperature was measured using infrared imaging. Stomatal density and canopy temperature were positively correlated but both were negatively correlated with total above-ground biomass. These trait relationships suggest a likely interaction between stomatal density and the other drivers of water use such as stomatal size and aperture. Multiple quantitative trait loci (QTL) were identified for stomatal density and canopy temperature, including co-located QTL on chromosomes 5 and 9. The direction of the additive effect of these QTL on chromosome 5 and 9 was in accordance with the positive phenotypic relationship between these two traits. This, along with prior experiments, suggests a common genetic architecture between stomatal patterning and WUE in controlled environments with canopy transpiration and productivity in the field, while highlighting the potential of Setaria as a model to understand the physiology and genetics of WUE in C4 species.
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- Parthiban Thathapalli Prakash
- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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Barros NLF, Marques DN, Tadaiesky LBA, de Souza CRB. Halophytes and other molecular strategies for the generation of salt-tolerant crops. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2021; 162:581-591. [PMID: 33773233 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2021.03.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Accepted: 03/13/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The current increase in salinity can intensify the disparity between potential and actual crop yields, thus affecting economies and food security. One of the mitigating alternatives is plant breeding via biotechnology, where advances achieved so far are significant. Considering certain aspects when developing studies related to plant breeding can determine the success and accuracy of experimental design. Besides this strategy, halophytes with intrinsic and efficient abilities against salinity can be used as models for improving the response of crops to salinity stress. As crops are mostly glycophytes, it is crucial to point out the molecular differences between these two groups of plants, which may be the key to guiding and optimizing the transformation of glycophytes with halophytic tolerance genes. Therefore, this can broaden perspectives in the trajectory of research towards the cultivation, commercialization, and consumption of salt-tolerant crops on a large scale.
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- Departamento de Genética, Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz", Piracicaba, SP, CEP 13418-900, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, CEP 66075-110, Brazil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Agronomia, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Belém, PA, CEP 66077-530, Brazil
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Niron H, Barlas N, Salih B, Türet M. Comparative Transcriptome, Metabolome, and Ionome Analysis of Two Contrasting Common Bean Genotypes in Saline Conditions. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:599501. [PMID: 33362832 PMCID: PMC7758407 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.599501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Soil salinity is a major abiotic stress factor that limits agricultural productivity worldwide, and this problem is expected to grow in the future. Common bean is an important protein source in developing countries however highly susceptible to salt stress. To understand the underlying mechanism of salt stress responses, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and ion content analysis were performed on both salt-tolerant and susceptible common bean genotypes in saline conditions. Transcriptomics has demonstrated increased photosynthesis in saline conditions for tolerant genotype while the susceptible genotype acted in contrast. Transcriptome also displayed active carbon and amino-acid metabolism for the tolerant genotype. Analysis of metabolites with GC-MS demonstrated the boosted carbohydrate metabolism in the tolerant genotype with increased sugar content as well as better amino-acid metabolism. Accumulation of lysine, valine, and isoleucine in the roots of the susceptible genotype suggested a halted stress response. According to ion content comparison, the tolerant genotype managed to block accumulation of Na+ in the leaves while accumulating significantly less Na+ in the roots compared to susceptible genotype. K+ levels increased in the leaves of both genotype and the roots of the susceptible one but dropped in the roots of the tolerant genotype. Additionally, Zn+2 and Mn+2 levels were dropped in the tolerant roots, while Mo+2 levels were significantly higher in all tissues in both control and saline conditions for tolerant genotype. The results of the presented study have demonstrated the differences in contrasting genotypes and thus provide valuable information on the pivotal molecular mechanisms underlying salt tolerance.
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- Harun Niron
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Yadav RK, Chatrath A, Tripathi K, Gerard M, Ahmad A, Mishra V, Abraham G. Salinity tolerance mechanism in the aquatic nitrogen fixing pteridophyte Azolla: a review. Symbiosis 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s13199-020-00736-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Baslam M, Mitsui T, Hodges M, Priesack E, Herritt MT, Aranjuelo I, Sanz-Sáez Á. Photosynthesis in a Changing Global Climate: Scaling Up and Scaling Down in Crops. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:882. [PMID: 32733499 PMCID: PMC7357547 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2019] [Accepted: 05/29/2020] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Photosynthesis is the major process leading to primary production in the Biosphere. There is a total of 7000bn tons of CO2 in the atmosphere and photosynthesis fixes more than 100bn tons annually. The CO2 assimilated by the photosynthetic apparatus is the basis of crop production and, therefore, of animal and human food. This has led to a renewed interest in photosynthesis as a target to increase plant production and there is now increasing evidence showing that the strategy of improving photosynthetic traits can increase plant yield. However, photosynthesis and the photosynthetic apparatus are both conditioned by environmental variables such as water availability, temperature, [CO2], salinity, and ozone. The "omics" revolution has allowed a better understanding of the genetic mechanisms regulating stress responses including the identification of genes and proteins involved in the regulation, acclimation, and adaptation of processes that impact photosynthesis. The development of novel non-destructive high-throughput phenotyping techniques has been important to monitor crop photosynthetic responses to changing environmental conditions. This wealth of data is being incorporated into new modeling algorithms to predict plant growth and development under specific environmental constraints. This review gives a multi-perspective description of the impact of changing environmental conditions on photosynthetic performance and consequently plant growth by briefly highlighting how major technological advances including omics, high-throughput photosynthetic measurements, metabolic engineering, and whole plant photosynthetic modeling have helped to improve our understanding of how the photosynthetic machinery can be modified by different abiotic stresses and thus impact crop production.
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- Marouane Baslam
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), CNRS, INRAE, Université Paris-Saclay, Université Evry, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- USDA-ARS Plant Physiology and Genetics Research, US Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center, Maricopa, AZ, United States
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- Agrobiotechnology Institute (IdAB-CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Gobierno de Navarra, Mutilva, Spain
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- Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States
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Huang Y, Hussain MA, Luo D, Xu H, Zeng C, Havlickova L, Bancroft I, Tian Z, Zhang X, Cheng Y, Zou X, Lu G, Lv Y. A Brassica napus Reductase Gene Dissected by Associative Transcriptomics Enhances Plant Adaption to Freezing Stress. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:971. [PMID: 32676095 PMCID: PMC7333310 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Cold treatment (vernalization) is required for winter crops such as rapeseed (Brassica napus L.). However, excessive exposure to low temperature (LT) in winter is also a stress for the semi-winter, early-flowering rapeseed varieties widely cultivated in China. Photosynthetic efficiency is one of the key determinants, and thus a good indicator for LT tolerance in plants. So far, the genetic basis underlying photosynthetic efficiency is poorly understood in rapeseed. Here the current study used Associative Transcriptomics to identify genetic loci controlling photosynthetic gas exchange parameters in a diversity panel comprising 123 accessions. A total of 201 significant Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) and 147 Gene Expression Markers (GEMs) were detected, leading to the identification of 22 candidate genes. Of these, Cab026133.1, an ortholog of the Arabidopsis gene AT2G29300.2 encoding a tropinone reductase (BnTR1), was further confirmed to be closely linked to transpiration rate. Ectopic expressing BnTR1 in Arabidopsis plants significantly increased the transpiration rate and enhanced LT tolerance under freezing conditions. Also, a much higher level of alkaloids content was observed in the transgenic Arabidopsis plants, which could help protect against LT stress. Together, the current study showed that AT is an effective approach for dissecting LT tolerance trait in rapeseed and that BnTR1 is a good target gene for the genetic improvement of LT tolerance in plant.
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- Yong Huang
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Laboratory of Rapeseed, The Chongqing Three Gorges Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Laboratory of Rapeseed, The Chongqing Three Gorges Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing, China
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- Laboratory of Rapeseed, The Chongqing Three Gorges Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing, China
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- Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) M119, Department of Biology, University of York, York, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) M119, Department of Biology, University of York, York, United Kingdom
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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Kohli A, Miro B, Balié J, d’A Hughes J. Photosynthesis research: a model to bridge fundamental science, translational products, and socio-economic considerations in agriculture. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2020; 71:2281-2298. [PMID: 32076700 PMCID: PMC7135011 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Despite impressive success in molecular physiological understanding of photosynthesis, and preliminary evidence on its potential for quantum shifts in agricultural productivity, the question remains of whether increased photosynthesis, without parallel fine-tuning of the associated processes, is enough. There is a distinct lack of formal socio-economic impact studies that address the critical questions of product profiling, cost-benefit analysis, environmental trade-offs, and technological and market forces in product acceptability. When a relatively well understood process gains enough traction for translational value, its broader scientific and technical gap assessment, in conjunction with its socio-economic impact assessment for success, should be a prerequisite. The successes in the upstream basic understanding of photosynthesis should be integrated with a gap analysis for downstream translational applications to impact the farmers' and customers' lifestyles and livelihoods. The purpose of this review is to assess how the laboratory, the field, and the societal demands from photosynthesis could generate a transformative product. Two crucial recommendations from the analysis of the state of knowledge and potential ways forward are (i) the formulation of integrative mega-projects, which span the multistakeholder spectrum, to ensure rapid success in harnessing the transformative power of photosynthesis; and (ii) stipulating spatiotemporal, labour, and economic criteria to stage-gate deliverables.
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- Ajay Kohli
- International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines
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- International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines
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- International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines
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Kiani-Pouya A, Rasouli F, Rabbi B, Falakboland Z, Yong M, Chen ZH, Zhou M, Shabala S. Stomatal traits as a determinant of superior salinity tolerance in wild barley. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2020; 245:153108. [PMID: 31927218 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2019.153108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2019] [Revised: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 12/16/2019] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Wild barley Hordeum spontaneum (WB) is the progenitor of a cultivated barley Hordeum vulgare (CB). Understanding efficient mechanisms evolved by WB to cope with abiotic stresses may open prospects of transferring these promising traits to the high yielding CB genotypes. This study aimed to investigate the strategies that WB plants utilise in regard to the control of stomatal operation and ionic homeostasis to deal with salinity stress, one of the major threats to the global food security. Twenty-six genotypes of WB and CB were grown under glasshouse conditions and exposed to 300 mM NaCl salinity treatment for 5 weeks followed by their comprehensive physiological assessment. WB had higher relative biomass than CB when exposed to salinity stress. Under saline conditions, WB plants were able to keep constant stomatal density (SD) while SD significantly decreased in CB. The higher SD in WB also resulted in a higher stomatal conductance (gs) under saline conditions, with gs reduction being 51% and 72% in WB and CB, respectively. Furthermore, WB showed faster stomatal response to light, indicating their better ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Experiments with isolated epidermal strips indicated that CB genotypes have the higher stomatal aperture when incubated in 80 mM KCl solution, and its aperture declined when KCl was substituted by NaCl. On the contrary, WB genotype had the highest stomatal aperture being exposed to 80 mM NaCl suggesting that WB plants may use Na+ instead of K+ for stomata movements. Overall, our data suggest that CB employ a stress-escaping strategy by reducing stomata density, to conserve water, when grown under salinity conditions. WB, on a contrary, is capable of maintaining relatively constant stomata density, faster stomatal movement and higher gs under saline conditions.
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- Ali Kiani-Pouya
- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, College of Science and Engineering, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, College of Science and Engineering, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- School of Science and Health, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, College of Science and Engineering, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- School of Science and Health, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia
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- School of Science and Health, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, College of Science and Engineering, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, College of Science and Engineering, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia; International Research Centre for Environmental Membrane Biology, Foshan University, Foshan, China.
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Morales F, Ancín M, Fakhet D, González-Torralba J, Gámez AL, Seminario A, Soba D, Ben Mariem S, Garriga M, Aranjuelo I. Photosynthetic Metabolism under Stressful Growth Conditions as a Bases for Crop Breeding and Yield Improvement. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 9:E88. [PMID: 31936732 PMCID: PMC7020424 DOI: 10.3390/plants9010088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2019] [Revised: 12/23/2019] [Accepted: 01/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Increased periods of water shortage and higher temperatures, together with a reduction in nutrient availability, have been proposed as major factors that negatively impact plant development. Photosynthetic CO2 assimilation is the basis of crop production for animal and human food, and for this reason, it has been selected as a primary target for crop phenotyping/breeding studies. Within this context, knowledge of the mechanisms involved in the response and acclimation of photosynthetic CO2 assimilation to multiple changing environmental conditions (including nutrients, water availability, and rising temperature) is a matter of great concern for the understanding of plant behavior under stress conditions, and for the development of new strategies and tools for enhancing plant growth in the future. The current review aims to analyze, from a multi-perspective approach (ranging across breeding, gas exchange, genomics, etc.) the impact of changing environmental conditions on the performance of the photosynthetic apparatus and, consequently, plant growth.
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- Fermín Morales
- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología (IdAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Gobierno de Navarra, Av. Pamplona 123, 31192 Mutilva, Spain; (F.M.); (M.A.); (D.F.); (A.L.G.); (A.S.); (D.S.); (S.B.M.)
- Dpto. Nutrición Vegetal, Estación Experimental de Aula Dei (EEAD), CSIC, Apdo. 13034, 50080 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología (IdAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Gobierno de Navarra, Av. Pamplona 123, 31192 Mutilva, Spain; (F.M.); (M.A.); (D.F.); (A.L.G.); (A.S.); (D.S.); (S.B.M.)
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología (IdAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Gobierno de Navarra, Av. Pamplona 123, 31192 Mutilva, Spain; (F.M.); (M.A.); (D.F.); (A.L.G.); (A.S.); (D.S.); (S.B.M.)
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- Institute for Multidisciplinary Applied Biology, Dpto. Agronomía, Biotecnología y Alimentación, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Campus Arrosadia, 31006 Pamplona, Spain;
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología (IdAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Gobierno de Navarra, Av. Pamplona 123, 31192 Mutilva, Spain; (F.M.); (M.A.); (D.F.); (A.L.G.); (A.S.); (D.S.); (S.B.M.)
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología (IdAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Gobierno de Navarra, Av. Pamplona 123, 31192 Mutilva, Spain; (F.M.); (M.A.); (D.F.); (A.L.G.); (A.S.); (D.S.); (S.B.M.)
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología (IdAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Gobierno de Navarra, Av. Pamplona 123, 31192 Mutilva, Spain; (F.M.); (M.A.); (D.F.); (A.L.G.); (A.S.); (D.S.); (S.B.M.)
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología (IdAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Gobierno de Navarra, Av. Pamplona 123, 31192 Mutilva, Spain; (F.M.); (M.A.); (D.F.); (A.L.G.); (A.S.); (D.S.); (S.B.M.)
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- Centro de Mejoramiento Genético y Fenómica Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad de Talca, Talca 3460000, Chile;
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología (IdAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Gobierno de Navarra, Av. Pamplona 123, 31192 Mutilva, Spain; (F.M.); (M.A.); (D.F.); (A.L.G.); (A.S.); (D.S.); (S.B.M.)
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Hu B, Deng F, Chen G, Chen X, Gao W, Long L, Xia J, Chen ZH. Evolution of Abscisic Acid Signaling for Stress Responses to Toxic Metals and Metalloids. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:909. [PMID: 32765540 PMCID: PMC7379394 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Toxic heavy metals and metalloids in agricultural ecosystems are crucial factors that limit global crop productivity and food safety. Industrial toxic heavy metals and metalloids such as cadmium, lead, and arsenic have contaminated large areas of arable land in the world and their accumulation in the edible parts of crops is causing serious health risks to humans and animals. Plants have co-evolved with various concentrations of these toxic metals and metalloids in soil and water. Some green plant species have significant innovations in key genes for the adaptation of abiotic stress tolerance pathways that are able to tolerate heavy metals and metalloids. Increasing evidence has demonstrated that phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) plays a vital role in the alleviation of heavy metal and metalloid stresses in plants. Here, we trace the evolutionary origins of the key gene families connecting ABA signaling with tolerance to heavy metals and metalloids in green plants. We also summarize the molecular and physiological aspects of ABA in the uptake, root-to-shoot translocation, chelation, sequestration, reutilization, and accumulation of key heavy metals and metalloids in plants. The molecular evolution and interaction between the ABA signaling pathway and mechanisms for heavy metal and metalloid tolerance are highlighted in this review. Therefore, we propose that it is promising to manipulate ABA signaling in plant tissues to reduce the uptake and accumulation of toxic heavy metals and metalloids in crops through the application of ABA-producing bacteria or ABA analogues. This may lead to improvements in tolerance of major crops to heavy metals and metalloids.
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- Beibei Hu
- Engineering Research Center of Ecology and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Ministry of Education/Hubei Key Laboratory of Waterlogging Disaster and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Ecology and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Ministry of Education/Hubei Key Laboratory of Waterlogging Disaster and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Fenglin Deng, ; Zhong-Hua Chen,
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- Engineering Research Center of Ecology and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Ministry of Education/Hubei Key Laboratory of Waterlogging Disaster and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Ecology and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Ministry of Education/Hubei Key Laboratory of Waterlogging Disaster and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
- *Correspondence: Fenglin Deng, ; Zhong-Hua Chen,
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Wang J, Yang J, Hua W, Wu X, Zhu J, Shang Y, Zhou M. QTL Mapping Reveals the Relationship between Pasting Properties and Malt Extract in Barley. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:ijms19113559. [PMID: 30424480 PMCID: PMC6275068 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19113559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2018] [Revised: 10/27/2018] [Accepted: 10/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Pasting properties are important characteristics of barley starch from a processing standpoint. Many studies reported the close relationship between pasting properties and malting quality, especially malt extract. However, most conclusions were derived from the correlation between pasting properties and malting quality using a set of cultivars or breeding lines. In this study, a doubled haploid population of 150 lines from a cross between a Japanese malting barley and a Chinese feed barley was grown in four different environments (two sites × two years). Based on average values from all different environments, 17 significant quantitative trait loci (QTL) were identified for pasting properties. The genetic variance explained by these QTL varied from 7.0 to 23.2%. Most QTL controlling pasting properties were located on 1H, 2H, 5H, and 7H. Results confirmed the linkage between pasting properties and malt extract, with most of the QTL for pasting properties becoming nonsignificant when using malt extract as a covariate. Breakdown showed the closest correlation with malt extract. Molecular markers closely linked to the QTL can be used to select desired pasting properties to improve malting quality.
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- Junmei Wang
- Institute of Crop and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Jinghuan, Hangzhou 310021, China.
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- Institute of Crop and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Jinghuan, Hangzhou 310021, China.
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- Institute of Crop and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Jinghuan, Hangzhou 310021, China.
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- Institute of Crop and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Jinghuan, Hangzhou 310021, China.
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- Institute of Crop and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Jinghuan, Hangzhou 310021, China.
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- Institute of Crop and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Jinghuan, Hangzhou 310021, China.
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- Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania 6250, Australia.
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Gudys K, Guzy-Wrobelska J, Janiak A, Dziurka MA, Ostrowska A, Hura K, Jurczyk B, Żmuda K, Grzybkowska D, Śróbka J, Urban W, Biesaga-Koscielniak J, Filek M, Koscielniak J, Mikołajczak K, Ogrodowicz P, Krystkowiak K, Kuczyńska A, Krajewski P, Szarejko I. Prioritization of Candidate Genes in QTL Regions for Physiological and Biochemical Traits Underlying Drought Response in Barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:769. [PMID: 29946328 PMCID: PMC6005862 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2017] [Accepted: 05/18/2018] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Drought is one of the most adverse abiotic factors limiting growth and productivity of crops. Among them is barley, ranked fourth cereal worldwide in terms of harvested acreage and production. Plants have evolved various mechanisms to cope with water deficit at different biological levels, but there is an enormous challenge to decipher genes responsible for particular complex phenotypic traits, in order to develop drought tolerant crops. This work presents a comprehensive approach for elucidation of molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance in barley at the seedling stage of development. The study includes mapping of QTLs for physiological and biochemical traits associated with drought tolerance on a high-density function map, projection of QTL confidence intervals on barley physical map, and the retrievement of positional candidate genes (CGs), followed by their prioritization based on Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment analysis. A total of 64 QTLs for 25 physiological and biochemical traits that describe plant water status, photosynthetic efficiency, osmoprotectant and hormone content, as well as antioxidant activity, were positioned on a consensus map, constructed using RIL populations developed from the crosses between European and Syrian genotypes. The map contained a total of 875 SNP, SSR and CGs, spanning 941.86 cM with resolution of 1.1 cM. For the first time, QTLs for ethylene, glucose, sucrose, maltose, raffinose, α-tocopherol, γ-tocotrienol content, and catalase activity, have been mapped in barley. Based on overlapping confidence intervals of QTLs, 11 hotspots were identified that enclosed more than 60% of mapped QTLs. Genetic and physical map integration allowed the identification of 1,101 positional CGs within the confidence intervals of drought response-specific QTLs. Prioritization resulted in the designation of 143 CGs, among them were genes encoding antioxidants, carboxylic acid biosynthesis enzymes, heat shock proteins, small auxin up-regulated RNAs, nitric oxide synthase, ATP sulfurylases, and proteins involved in regulation of flowering time. This global approach may be proposed for identification of new CGs that underlies QTLs responsible for complex traits.
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- Kornelia Gudys
- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
- Department of Botany and Nature Protection, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agriculture and Economics, University of Agriculture, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agriculture and Economics, University of Agriculture, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agriculture and Economics, University of Agriculture, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agriculture and Economics, University of Agriculture, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
- Department of Plant Functional Metabolomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Biometry and Bioinformatics, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
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Variable Levels of Tolerance to Water Stress (Drought) and Associated Biochemical Markers in Tunisian Barley Landraces. Molecules 2018. [PMID: 29518035 PMCID: PMC6017546 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23030613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Due to its high tolerance to abiotic stress, barley (Hordeum vulgare) is cultivated in many arid areas of the world. In the present study, we evaluate the tolerance to water stress (drought) in nine accessions of “Ardhaoui” barley landraces from different regions of Tunisia. The genetic diversity of the accessions is evaluated with six SSR markers. Seedlings from the nine accessions are subjected to water stress by completely stopping irrigation for three weeks. A high genetic diversity is detected among the nine accessions, with no relationships between genetic distance and geographical or ecogeographical zone. The analysis of growth parameters and biochemical markers in the water stress-treated plants in comparison to their respective controls indicated great variability among the studied accessions. Accession 2, from El May Island, displayed high tolerance to drought. Increased amounts of proline in water-stressed plants could not be correlated with a better response to drought, as the most tolerant accessions contained lower levels of this osmolyte. A good correlation was established between the reduction of growth and degradation of chlorophylls and increased levels of malondialdehyde and total phenolics. These biochemical markers may be useful for identifying drought tolerant materials in barley.
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Sumathi M, Bachpai VKW, Deeparaj B, Mayavel A, Dasgupta MG, Nagarajan B, Rajasugunasekar D, Sivakumar V, Yasodha R. Quantitative trait loci mapping for stomatal traits in interspecific hybrids of Eucalyptus. J Genet 2018; 97:323-329. [PMID: 29666352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Eucalyptus is an important industrial species with tolerance to drought and salt stress. Genetic improvement activities including quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping for pulping and adventitious rooting traits are in progress, but no information is available on the genomic regions on adaptive traits such as stomatal characteristics. In this study, an interspecific cross between Eucalyptus tereticornis and E. grandis was generated for the development of genetic map and QTL identification for stomatal traits. Simple sequence repeats (SSRs), inter-simple sequence repeats (ISSRs) and sequence related amplified polymorphism (SRAP)markers were used for genotyping the F1 individuals. Parent-specific geneticmaps (female, 1023.56 cM;male, 1049.64cM) and consensus map (1049.4 cM) were developed. QTL analysis was carried out to identify the chromosomal regions affecting stomatal density, area and pore length in adaxial and abaxial leaf surface. Seven QTLs were identified with phenotypic variation of 11.36 to 27.30% for stomatal density, area and pore length. Correlation of stomatal traits when combined with growth and wood properties would have greater implications for generation of stress tolerant eucalypt hybrids with higher productivity and adaptability.
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- M Sumathi
- Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore 641 002, India.
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Schönbach C, Li J, Ma L, Horton P, Sjaugi MF, Ranganathan S. A bioinformatics potpourri. BMC Genomics 2018; 19:920. [PMID: 29363432 PMCID: PMC5780851 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-017-4326-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) was held at Tsinghua University, Shenzhen from September 20 to 22, 2017. The annual conference of the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network featured six keynotes, two invited talks, a panel discussion on big data driven bioinformatics and precision medicine, and 66 oral presentations of accepted research articles or posters. Fifty-seven articles comprising a topic assortment of algorithms, biomolecular networks, cancer and disease informatics, drug-target interactions and drug efficacy, gene regulation and expression, imaging, immunoinformatics, metagenomics, next generation sequencing for genomics and transcriptomics, ontologies, post-translational modification, and structural bioinformatics are the subject of this editorial for the InCoB2017 supplement issues in BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Systems Biology and BMC Medical Genomics. New Delhi will be the location of InCoB2018, scheduled for September 26-28, 2018.
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- Christian Schönbach
- International Research Center for Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, 860-0811 Japan
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- The Advanced Analytics Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007 Australia
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- Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, 518055 People’s Republic of China
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- Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, 135-0064 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109 Australia
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Hazzouri KM, Khraiwesh B, Amiri KMA, Pauli D, Blake T, Shahid M, Mullath SK, Nelson D, Mansour AL, Salehi-Ashtiani K, Purugganan M, Masmoudi K. Mapping of HKT1;5 Gene in Barley Using GWAS Approach and Its Implication in Salt Tolerance Mechanism. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:156. [PMID: 29515598 PMCID: PMC5826053 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2017] [Accepted: 01/29/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Sodium (Na+) accumulation in the cytosol will result in ion homeostasis imbalance and toxicity of transpiring leaves. Studies of salinity tolerance in the diploid wheat ancestor Triticum monococcum showed that HKT1;5-like gene was a major gene in the QTL for salt tolerance, named Nax2. In the present study, we were interested in investigating the molecular mechanisms underpinning the role of the HKT1;5 gene in salt tolerance in barley (Hordeum vulgare). A USDA mini-core collection of 2,671 barley lines, part of a field trial was screened for salinity tolerance, and a Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) was performed. Our results showed important SNPs that are correlated with salt tolerance that mapped to a region where HKT1;5 ion transporter located on chromosome four. Furthermore, sodium (Na+) and potassium (K+) content analysis revealed that tolerant lines accumulate more sodium in roots and leaf sheaths, than in the sensitive ones. In contrast, sodium concentration was reduced in leaf blades of the tolerant lines under salt stress. In the absence of NaCl, the concentration of Na+ and K+ were the same in the roots, leaf sheaths and leaf blades between the tolerant and the sensitive lines. In order to study the molecular mechanism behind that, alleles of the HKT1;5 gene from five tolerant and five sensitive barley lines were cloned and sequenced. Sequence analysis did not show the presence of any polymorphism that distinguishes between the tolerant and sensitive alleles. Our real-time RT-PCR experiments, showed that the expression of HKT1;5 gene in roots of the tolerant line was significantly induced after challenging the plants with salt stress. In contrast, in leaf sheaths the expression was decreased after salt treatment. In sensitive lines, there was no difference in the expression of HKT1;5 gene in leaf sheath under control and saline conditions, while a slight increase in the expression was observed in roots after salt treatment. These results provide stronger evidence that HKT1;5 gene in barley play a key role in withdrawing Na+ from the xylem and therefore reducing its transport to leaves. Given all that, these data support the hypothesis that HKT1;5 gene is responsible for Na+ unloading to the xylem and controlling its distribution in the shoots, which provide new insight into the understanding of this QTL for salinity tolerance in barley.
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- Khaled M. Hazzouri
- Khalifa Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
- Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University of Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Khaled M. Hazzouri ;
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- Laboratory of Algal and Systems Biology, New York University of Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Khalifa Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
- Department of Biology, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
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- International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Arid Land Agriculture, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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- Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University of Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Date Palm Tissue Culture, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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- Laboratory of Algal and Systems Biology, New York University of Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University of Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Arid Land Agriculture, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
- *Correspondence: Khaled Masmoudi
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Gill MB, Zeng F, Shabala L, Zhang G, Fan Y, Shabala S, Zhou M. Cell-Based Phenotyping Reveals QTL for Membrane Potential Maintenance Associated with Hypoxia and Salinity Stress Tolerance in Barley. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:1941. [PMID: 29201033 PMCID: PMC5696338 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2017] [Accepted: 10/27/2017] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Waterlogging and salinity are two major abiotic stresses that hamper crop production world-wide resulting in multibillion losses. Plant abiotic stress tolerance is conferred by many interrelated mechanisms. Amongst these, the cell's ability to maintain membrane potential (MP) is considered to be amongst the most crucial traits, a positive relationship between the ability of plants to maintain highly negative MP and its tolerance to both salinity and waterlogging stress. However, no attempts have been made to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) conferring this trait. In this study, the microelectrode MIFE technique was used to measure the plasma membrane potential of epidermal root cells of 150 double haploid (DH) lines of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) from a cross between a Chinese landrace TX9425 and Japanese malting cultivar Naso Nijo under hypoxic conditions. A major QTL for the MP in the epidermal root cells in hypoxia-exposed plants was identified. This QTL was located on 2H, at a similar position to the QTL for waterlogging and salinity tolerance reported in previous studies. Further analysis confirmed that MP showed a significant contribution to both waterlogging and salinity tolerance. The fact that the QTL for MP was controlled by a single major QTL illustrates the power of the single-cell phenotyping approach and opens prospects for fine mapping this QTL and thus being more effective in marker assisted selection.
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- Muhammad B. Gill
- Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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Angessa TT, Zhang XQ, Zhou G, Broughton S, Zhang W, Li C. Early growth stages salinity stress tolerance in CM72 x Gairdner doubled haploid barley population. PLoS One 2017. [PMID: 28640858 PMCID: PMC5480976 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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A doubled haploid (DH) population of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) generated from salinity tolerant genotype CM72 and salinity sensitive variety Gairdner was studied for salinity stress tolerance at germination, seedling emergence and first leaf full expansion growth stages. Germination study was conducted with deionized water, 150 mM and 300 mM NaCl treatments. Seedling stage salinity tolerance was conducted with three treatments: control, 150 mM NaCl added at seedling emergence and first leaf full expansion growth stages. Results from this study revealed transgressive phenotypic segregations for germination percentage and biomass at seedling stage. Twelve QTL were identified on chromosomes 2H-6H each explaining 10-25% of the phenotypic variations. A QTL located at 176.5 cM on chromosome 3H was linked with fresh weight per plant and dry weight per plant in salinity stress induced at first leaf full expansion growth stage, and dry weight per plant in salinity stress induced at seedling emergence. A stable QTL for germination at both 150 and 300 mM salinity stress was mapped on chromosome 2H but distantly located from a QTL linked with seedling stage salinity stress tolerance. QTL, associated markers and genotypes identified in this study play important roles in developing salinity stress tolerant barley varieties.
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- Tefera Tolera Angessa
- Western Barley Genetics Alliance, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences (VLS), Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia
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- Western Barley Genetics Alliance, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences (VLS), Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia
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- Western Barley Genetics Alliance, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences (VLS), Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia
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- Grains Industry, Department of Agriculture and Food WA, South Perth, WA, Australia
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Centre for Grain Industry/College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, China
- * E-mail: (CL); (WZ)
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- Western Barley Genetics Alliance, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences (VLS), Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia
- Grains Industry, Department of Agriculture and Food WA, South Perth, WA, Australia
- * E-mail: (CL); (WZ)
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