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Danakumara T, Kumar N, Patil BS, Kumar T, Bharadwaj C, Jain PK, Nimmy MS, Joshi N, Parida SK, Bindra S, Kole C, Varshney RK. Unraveling the genetics of heat tolerance in chickpea landraces ( Cicer arietinum L.) using genome-wide association studies. Front Plant Sci 2024; 15:1376381. [PMID: 38590753 PMCID: PMC10999645 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1376381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2024] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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Chickpea, being an important grain legume crop, is often confronted with the adverse effects of high temperatures at the reproductive stage of crop growth, drastically affecting yield and overall productivity. The current study deals with an extensive evaluation of chickpea genotypes, focusing on the traits associated with yield and their response to heat stress. Notably, we observed significant variations for these traits under both normal and high-temperature conditions, forming a robust basis for genetic research and breeding initiatives. Furthermore, the study revealed that yield-related traits exhibited high heritability, suggesting their potential suitability for marker-assisted selection. We carried out single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping using the genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) method for a genome-wide association study (GWAS). Overall, 27 marker-trait associations (MTAs) linked to yield-related traits, among which we identified five common MTAs displaying pleiotropic effects after applying a stringent Bonferroni-corrected p-value threshold of <0.05 [-log10(p) > 4.95] using the BLINK (Bayesian-information and linkage-disequilibrium iteratively nested keyway) model. Through an in-depth in silico analysis of these markers against the CDC Frontier v1 reference genome, we discovered that the majority of the SNPs were located at or in proximity to gene-coding regions. We further explored candidate genes situated near these MTAs, shedding light on the molecular mechanisms governing heat stress tolerance and yield enhancement in chickpeas such as indole-3-acetic acid-amido synthetase GH3.1 with GH3 auxin-responsive promoter and pentatricopeptide repeat-containing protein, etc. The harvest index (HI) trait was associated with marker Ca3:37444451 encoding aspartic proteinase ortholog sequence of Oryza sativa subsp. japonica and Medicago truncatula, which is known for contributing to heat stress tolerance. These identified MTAs and associated candidate genes may serve as valuable assets for breeding programs dedicated to tailoring chickpea varieties resilient to heat stress and climate change.
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- ICAR- Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Amlaha, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- ICAR- Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Prof. Chittaranjan Kole Foundation for Science & Society, Kolkatta, India
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Hacham Y, Shitrit O, Nisimi O, Friebach M, Amir R. Elucidating the importance of the catabolic enzyme, methionine-gamma-lyase, in stresses during Arabidopsis seed development and germination. Front Plant Sci 2023; 14:1143021. [PMID: 37346132 PMCID: PMC10280021 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1143021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023]
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The sulfur-containing essential amino acid, methionine, is a key metabolite in plant cells since it is used as a precursor for the synthesis of vital metabolites. The transcript level of methionine's catabolic enzyme, methionine γ-lyase (MGL), accumulates in the seeds to a high level compared to other organs. The aim of this study was to reveal the role of MGL during seed development and germination. Using [13C]S-methylmethionine (SMM), the mobile form of methionine that is used to feed flower stalks of wild-type (WT) plants, revealed that the contents of [13C]methionine in seeds were significantly reduced when the plants underwent heat and osmotic stresses. Moreover, the levels of [13C]isoleucine, a product of MGL, significantly increased. Also, using the MGL promoter and gene fused to the GUS reporter gene, it was demonstrated that the heat stress significantly increased the protein level in the seeds. Therefore, we can conclude that MGL became active under stresses apparently to produce isoleucine, which is used as an osmoprotectant and an energy source. Transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana RNAi seeds with targeted repression of AtMGL during the late developmental stages of seeds show that the seeds did not accumulate methionine when they were grown under standard growth conditions, unlike the mgl-2, a knockout mutant, which showed a three-fold higher level of methionine. Also, when the RNAi plants developed under mid-heat stress, the level of methionine significantly increased while the content of isoleucine decreased compared to the control seeds, which strengthened the assumption that MGL is active under stress. The germination efficiency of the RNAi lines and mgl seeds were similar to their controls. However, the seeds that developed during heat or salt stress showed significantly lower germination efficiency compared to the control seeds. This implies that MGL is important to maintain the ability of the seeds to germinate. The RNAi lines and mgl seeds that developed under regular conditions, but germinated during salt or osmotic stress, exhibited a lower germination rate, suggesting an essential role of MGL also during this process. The results of this study show the important role of AtMGL in seeds under stresses.
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- Yael Hacham
- Laboratory of Plant Science, MIGAL – Galilee Research Institute, Kiryat Shmona, Israel
- Tel-Hai College, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Upper Galilee, Israel
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- Laboratory of Plant Science, MIGAL – Galilee Research Institute, Kiryat Shmona, Israel
- Tel-Hai College, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Upper Galilee, Israel
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- Laboratory of Plant Science, MIGAL – Galilee Research Institute, Kiryat Shmona, Israel
- Tel-Hai College, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Upper Galilee, Israel
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- Laboratory of Plant Science, MIGAL – Galilee Research Institute, Kiryat Shmona, Israel
- Tel-Hai College, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Upper Galilee, Israel
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- Laboratory of Plant Science, MIGAL – Galilee Research Institute, Kiryat Shmona, Israel
- Tel-Hai College, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Upper Galilee, Israel
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Wang Y, Jiang Z, Qin A, Wang F, Chang E, Liu Y, Nie W, Tan C, Yuan Y, Dong Y, Huang R, Jia Z, Wang J. Population Structure, Genetic Diversity and Candidate Genes for the Adaptation to Environmental Stress in Picea koraiensis. Plants (Basel) 2023; 12:1266. [PMID: 36986954 PMCID: PMC10055018 DOI: 10.3390/plants12061266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Revised: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Picea koraiensis is major silvicultural and timber species in northeast China, and its distribution area is an important transition zone for genus spruce migration. The degree of intraspecific differentiation of P. koraiensis is high, but population structure and differentiation mechanisms are not clear. In this study, 523,761 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified in 113 individuals from 9 populations of P. koraiensis by genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS). Population genomic analysis showed that P. koraiensis was divided into three geoclimatic regions: Great Khingan Mountains climatic region, Lesser Khingan Mountains climatic region, and Changbai Mountain climatic region. Mengkeshan (MKS) population on the northern edge of the distribution area and Wuyiling (WYL) population located in the mining area are two highly differentiated groups. Selective sweep analysis showed that MKS and WYL populations had 645 and 1126 selected genes, respectively. Genes selected in the MKS population were associated with flowering and photomorphogenesis, cellular response to water deficit, and glycerophospholipid metabolism; genes selected in the WYL population were associated with metal ion transport, biosynthesis of macromolecules, and DNA repair. Climatic factors and heavy metal stress drives divergence in MKS and WYL populations, respectively. Our findings provide insights into adaptive divergence mechanisms in Picea and will contribute to molecular breeding studies.
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- Ya Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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- Forestry Research Institute in Heilongjiang Province, Harbin 150081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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Xu N, Wu Z, Li X, Yang M, Han J, Lu B, Lu B, Wang J. Effects of nicosulfuron on plant growth and sugar metabolism in sweet maize (Zea mays L.). PLoS One 2022; 17:e0276606. [PMID: 36269745 PMCID: PMC9586374 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0276606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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The sulfonylurea herbicide nicosulfuron is efficient, harmless and selective at low doses and has been widely used in maize cultivation. In this study, a pair of corn sister lines, HK301 (nicosulfuron-tolerence, NT) and HK320 (nicosulfuron-sensitive, NS), was chosen to study the effect of nicosulfuron on plant growth and sugar metabolism in sweet maize (Zea mays L.) seedlings. All the experimental samples were subjected to treatment with water or 80 mg kg–1 of nicosulfuron when the sweet maize seedlings grew to the four-leaf stage. Nicosulfuron significantly inhibited the growth of NS line. The content of sucrose and the activities of sucrose phosphate synthase and sucrose synthase in the two inbred lines increased differentially under nicosulfuron stress compared with the respective control treatment. After nicosulfuron treatment, the activities of hexokinase and 6-phosphofructokinase and the contents of pyruvic acid and citric acid in NS line decreased significantly compared with those of NT line, while the content of sucrose and activities of sucrose phosphate synthase and sucrose synthase increased significantly. The disruption of sugar metabolism in NS line led to a lower supply of energy for growth. This study showed that the glycolysis pathway and the tricarboxylic acid cycle were enhanced in nicosulfuron-tolerant line under nicosulfuron stress in enhancing the adaptability of sweet maize.
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- Ningwei Xu
- College of Landscape and Tourism, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology, Hebei Normal University of Science &Technology, Qinhuangdao, China
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- Institute of Maize and Featured Upland Crops, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Dongyang, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology, Hebei Normal University of Science &Technology, Qinhuangdao, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology, Hebei Normal University of Science &Technology, Qinhuangdao, China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology, Hebei Normal University of Science &Technology, Qinhuangdao, China
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- College of Landscape and Tourism, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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- College of Landscape and Tourism, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
- * E-mail: (BL); (JW)
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology, Hebei Normal University of Science &Technology, Qinhuangdao, China
- * E-mail: (BL); (JW)
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Zarinkamar F, Moradi A, MohamadBagheri N, Rezayian M. Isoleucine treatment of seeds increased the content of 4-hydroxyisoleucine and affected the anatomy properties of Trigonella persica Boiss. At different developmental stages. Biologia (Bratisl) 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s11756-022-01156-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Ren W, Zeng Z, Wang S, Zhang J, Fang J, Wan L. Global Survey, Expressions and Association Analysis of CBLL Genes in Peanut. Front Genet 2022; 13:821163. [PMID: 35356435 PMCID: PMC8959419 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.821163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2021] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Cystathionine γ-synthase (CGS), methionine γ-lyase (MGL), cystathionine β-lyase (CBL) and cystathionine γ-lyase (CGL) share the Cys_Met_Meta_PP domain and play important roles in plant stress response and development. In this study, we defined the genes containing the Cys_Met_Meta_PP domain (PF01053.20) as CBL-like genes (CBLL). Twenty-nine CBLL genes were identified in the peanut genome, including 12 from cultivated peanut and 17 from wild species. These genes were distributed unevenly at the ends of different chromosomes. Evolution, gene structure, and motif analysis revealed that CBLL proteins were composed of five different evolutionary branches. Chromosome distribution pattern and synteny analysis strongly indicated that whole-genome duplication (allopolyploidization) contributed to the expansion of CBLL genes. Comparative genomics analysis showed that there were three common collinear CBLL gene pairs among peanut, Arabidopsis, grape, and soybean, but no collinear CBLL gene pairs between peanut and rice. The prediction results of cis-acting elements showed that AhCBLLs, AdCBLLs, and AiCBLLs contained different proportions of plant growth, abiotic stress, plant hormones, and light response elements. Spatial expression profiles revealed that almost all AhCBLLs had significantly higher expression in pods and seeds. All AhCBLLs could respond to heat stress, and some of them could be rapidly induced by cold, salt, submergence, heat and drought stress. Furthermore, one polymorphic site in AiCBLL7 was identified by association analysis which was closely associated with pod length (PL), pod width (PW), hundred pod weight (HPW) and hundred seed weight (HSW). The results of this study provide a foundation for further research on the function of the CBLL gene family in peanut.
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- Weifang Ren
- Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Ecology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China.,Southern Regional Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain and Oil Crops in China, Nanchang, China.,College of Agronomy, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Ecology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China.,Southern Regional Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain and Oil Crops in China, Nanchang, China.,College of Agronomy, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Ecology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China.,Southern Regional Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain and Oil Crops in China, Nanchang, China.,College of Agronomy, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Ecology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China.,Southern Regional Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain and Oil Crops in China, Nanchang, China.,College of Agronomy, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Ecology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China.,Southern Regional Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain and Oil Crops in China, Nanchang, China.,College of Agronomy, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
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Mishra M, Rathore RS, Singla‐Pareek SL, Pareek A. High lysine and high protein‐containing salinity‐tolerant rice grains (
Oryza sativa cv
IR64). Food Energy Secur 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/fes3.343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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- Manjari Mishra
- Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory School of Life Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India
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- Plant Stress Biology Laboratory International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology New Delhi India
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- Plant Stress Biology Laboratory International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology New Delhi India
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- Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory School of Life Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India
- National Agri‐Food Biotechnology Institute Punjab India
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Nantongo JS, Potts BM, Frickey T, Telfer E, Dungey H, Fitzgerald H, O'Reilly-Wapstra JM. Analysis of the transcriptome of the needles and bark of Pinus radiata induced by bark stripping and methyl jasmonate. BMC Genomics 2022; 23:52. [PMID: 35026979 PMCID: PMC8759178 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-021-08231-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Plants are attacked by diverse insect and mammalian herbivores and respond with different physical and chemical defences. Transcriptional changes underlie these phenotypic changes. Simulated herbivory has been used to study the transcriptional and other early regulation events of these plant responses. In this study, constitutive and induced transcriptional responses to artificial bark stripping are compared in the needles and the bark of Pinus radiata to the responses from application of the plant stressor, methyl jasmonate. The time progression of the responses was assessed over a 4-week period. RESULTS Of the 6312 unique transcripts studied, 86.6% were differentially expressed between the needles and the bark prior to treatment. The most abundant constitutive transcripts were related to defence and photosynthesis and their expression did not differ between the needles and the bark. While no differential expression of transcripts were detected in the needles following bark stripping, in the bark this treatment caused an up-regulation and down-regulation of genes associated with primary and secondary metabolism. Methyl jasmonate treatment caused differential expression of transcripts in both the bark and the needles, with individual genes related to primary metabolism more responsive than those associated with secondary metabolism. The up-regulation of genes related to sugar break-down and the repression of genes related with photosynthesis, following both treatments was consistent with the strong down-regulation of sugars that has been observed in the same population. Relative to the control, the treatments caused a differential expression of genes involved in signalling, photosynthesis, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism as well as defence and water stress. However, non-overlapping transcripts were detected between the needles and the bark, between treatments and at different times of assessment. Methyl jasmonate induced more transcriptional responses in the bark than bark stripping, although the peak of expression following both treatments was detected 7 days post treatment application. The effects of bark stripping were localised, and no systemic changes were detected in the needles. CONCLUSION There are constitutive and induced differences in the needle and bark transcriptome of Pinus radiata. Some expression responses to bark stripping may differ from other biotic and abiotic stresses, which contributes to the understanding of plant molecular responses to diverse stresses. Whether the gene expression changes are heritable and how they differ between resistant and susceptible families identified in earlier studies needs further investigation.
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- J S Nantongo
- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 5, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia.
- National Forestry Resources Research Institute, Mukono, Uganda.
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- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 5, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia
- ARC Training Centre for Forest Value, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 5, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 5, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia
- ARC Training Centre for Forest Value, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Dong T, Sha Y, Liu H, Sun L. Altitudinal Variation of Metabolites, Mineral Elements and Antioxidant Activities of Rhodiola crenulata (Hook.f. & Thomson) H.Ohba. Molecules 2021; 26:7383. [PMID: 34885966 PMCID: PMC8658832 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26237383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Revised: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Rhodiolacrenulata (Hook.f. & Thomson) H.Ohba is an alpine medicinal plant that can survive in extreme high altitude environments. However, its changes to extreme high altitude are not yet clear. In this study, the response of Rhodiola crenulata to differences in altitude gradients was investigated through chemical, ICP-MS and metabolomic methods. A targeted study of Rhodiola crenulata growing at three vertical altitudes revealed that the contents of seven elements Ca, Sr, B, Mn, Ni, Cu, and Cd, the phenolic components, the ascorbic acid, the ascorbic acid/dehydroascorbate ratio, and the antioxidant capacity were positively correlated with altitude, while the opposite was true for total ascorbic acid content. Furthermore, 1165 metabolites were identified: flavonoids (200), gallic acids (30), phenylpropanoids (237), amino acids (100), free fatty acids and glycerides (56), nucleotides (60), as well as other metabolites (482). The differential metabolite and biomarker analyses suggested that, with an increasing altitude: (1) the shikimic acid-phenylalanine-phenylpropanoids-flavonoids pathway was enhanced, with phenylpropanoids upregulating biomarkers much more than flavonoids; phenylpropanes and phenylmethanes upregulated, and phenylethanes downregulated; the upregulation of quercetin was especially significant in flavonoids; upregulation of condensed tannins and downregulation of hydrolyzed tannins; upregulation of shikimic acids and amino acids including phenylalanine. (2) significant upregulation of free fatty acids and downregulation of glycerides; and (3) upregulation of adenosine phosphates. Our findings provide new insights on the responses of Rhodiola crenulata to extreme high altitude adversity.
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Tree Breeding, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; (T.D.); (Y.S.); (H.L.)
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Purohit A, Ghosh S, Ganguly S, Negi MS, Tripathi SB, Chaudhuri RK, Chakraborti D. Comparative transcriptomic profiling of susceptible and resistant cultivars of pigeonpea demonstrates early molecular responses during Fusarium udum infection. Sci Rep 2021; 11:22319. [PMID: 34785701 PMCID: PMC8595609 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-01587-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 10/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Vascular wilt caused by Fusarium udum Butler is the most important disease of pigeonpea throughout the world. F. udum isolate MTCC 2204 (M1) inoculated pigeonpea plants of susceptible (ICP 2376) and resistant (ICP 8863) cultivars were taken at invasion stage of pathogenesis process for transcriptomic profiling to understand defense signaling reactions that interplay at early stage of this plant-pathogen encounter. Differential transcriptomic profiles were generated through cDNA-AFLP from M1 inoculated resistant and susceptible pigeonpea root tissues. Twenty five percent of transcript derived fragments (TDFs) were found to be pathogen induced. Among them 73 TDFs were re-amplified and sequenced. Homology search of the TDFs in available databases and thorough study of scientific literature identified several pathways, which could play crucial role in defense responses of the F. udum inoculated resistant plants. Some of the defense responsive pathways identified to be active during this interaction are, jasmonic acid and salicylic acid mediated defense responses, cell wall remodeling, vascular development and pattering, abscisic acid mediated responses, effector triggered immunity, and reactive oxygen species mediated signaling. This study identified important wilt responsive regulatory pathways in pigeonpea which will be helpful for further exploration of these resistant components for pigeonpea improvement.
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- Arnab Purohit
- Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), 30, Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700016, India
- Department of Genetics, University of Calcutta, 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, 700019, India
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- Department of Genetics, University of Calcutta, 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, 700019, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), 30, Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700016, India
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- Sustainable Agriculture Division, TERI, India Habitat Center Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, 110003, India
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- TERI-School of Advanced Studies, 10, Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, 110070, India
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- Department of Genetics, University of Calcutta, 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, 700019, India.
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Haas JC, Vergara A, Serrano AR, Mishra S, Hurry V, Street NR. Candidate regulators and target genes of drought stress in needles and roots of Norway spruce. Tree Physiol 2021; 41:1230-1246. [PMID: 33416078 PMCID: PMC8271197 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpaa178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/27/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Drought stress impacts seedling establishment, survival and whole-plant productivity. Molecular responses to drought stress have been most extensively studied in herbaceous species, mostly considering only aboveground tissues. Coniferous tree species dominate boreal forests, which are predicted to be exposed to more frequent and acute drought as a result of ongoing climate change. The associated impact at all stages of the forest tree life cycle is expected to have large-scale ecological and economic impacts. However, the molecular response to drought has not been comprehensively profiled for coniferous species. We assayed the physiological and transcriptional response of Picea abies (L.) H. Karst seedling needles and roots after exposure to mild and severe drought. Shoots and needles showed an extensive reversible plasticity for physiological measures indicative of drought-response mechanisms, including changes in stomatal conductance (gs), shoot water potential and abscisic acid (ABA). In both tissues, the most commonly observed expression profiles in response to drought were highly correlated with the ABA levels. Still, root and needle transcriptional responses contrasted, with extensive root-specific down-regulation of growth. Comparison between previously characterized Arabidopsis thaliana L. drought-response genes and P. abies revealed both conservation and divergence of transcriptional response to drought. In P. abies, transcription factors belonging to the ABA responsive element(ABRE) binding/ABRE binding factors ABA-dependent pathway had a more limited role. These results highlight the importance of profiling both above- and belowground tissues, and provide a comprehensive framework to advance the understanding of the drought response of P. abies. The results demonstrate that a short-term, severe drought induces severe physiological responses coupled to extensive transcriptome modulation and highlight the susceptibility of Norway spruce seedlings to such drought events.
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- Julia C Haas
- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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Cotton CAR, Bernhardsgrütter I, He H, Burgener S, Schulz L, Paczia N, Dronsella B, Erban A, Toman S, Dempfle M, De Maria A, Kopka J, Lindner SN, Erb TJ, Bar-Even A. Underground isoleucine biosynthesis pathways in E. coli. eLife 2020; 9:e54207. [PMID: 32831171 PMCID: PMC7476758 DOI: 10.7554/elife.54207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 08/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The promiscuous activities of enzymes provide fertile ground for the evolution of new metabolic pathways. Here, we systematically explore the ability of E. coli to harness underground metabolism to compensate for the deletion of an essential biosynthetic pathway. By deleting all threonine deaminases, we generated a strain in which isoleucine biosynthesis was interrupted at the level of 2-ketobutyrate. Incubation of this strain under aerobic conditions resulted in the emergence of a novel 2-ketobutyrate biosynthesis pathway based upon the promiscuous cleavage of O-succinyl-L-homoserine by cystathionine γ-synthase (MetB). Under anaerobic conditions, pyruvate formate-lyase enabled 2-ketobutyrate biosynthesis from propionyl-CoA and formate. Surprisingly, we found this anaerobic route to provide a substantial fraction of isoleucine in a wild-type strain when propionate is available in the medium. This study demonstrates the selective advantage underground metabolism offers, providing metabolic redundancy and flexibility which allow for the best use of environmental carbon sources.
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant PhysiologyPotsdamGermany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial MicrobiologyMarburgGermany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial MicrobiologyMarburgGermany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial MicrobiologyMarburgGermany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant PhysiologyPotsdamGermany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant PhysiologyPotsdamGermany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant PhysiologyPotsdamGermany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant PhysiologyPotsdamGermany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant PhysiologyPotsdamGermany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant PhysiologyPotsdamGermany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial MicrobiologyMarburgGermany
- LOEWE Research Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO)MarburgGermany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant PhysiologyPotsdamGermany
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Teshima T, Yamada N, Yokota Y, Sayama T, Inagaki K, Koeduka T, Uefune M, Ishimoto M, Matsui K. Suppressed Methionine γ-Lyase Expression Causes Hyperaccumulation of S-Methylmethionine in Soybean Seeds. Plant Physiol 2020; 183:943-956. [PMID: 32345769 PMCID: PMC7333717 DOI: 10.1104/pp.20.00254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/16/2020] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Several soybean (Glycine max) germplasms, such as Nishiyamahitashi 98-5 (NH), have an intense seaweed-like flavor after cooking because of their high seed S-methylmethionine (SMM) content. In this study, we compared the amounts of amino acids in the phloem sap, leaves, pods, and seeds between NH and the common soybean cultivar Fukuyutaka. This revealed a comparably higher SMM content alongside a higher free Met content in NH seeds, suggesting that the SMM-hyperaccumulation phenotype of NH soybean was related to Met metabolism in seeds. To investigate the molecular mechanism behind SMM hyperaccumulation, we examined the phenotype-associated gene locus in NH plants. Analyses of the quantitative trait loci in segregated offspring of the cross between NH and the common soybean cultivar Williams 82 indicated that one locus on chromosome 10 explains 71.4% of SMM hyperaccumulation. Subsequent fine-mapping revealed that a transposon insertion into the intron of a gene, Glyma.10g172700, is associated with the SMM-hyperaccumulation phenotype. The Glyma.10g172700-encoded recombinant protein showed Met-γ-lyase (MGL) activity in vitro, and the transposon-insertion mutation in NH efficiently suppressed Glyma.10g172700 expression in developing seeds. Exogenous administration of Met to sections of developing soybean seeds resulted in transient increases in Met levels, followed by continuous increases in SMM concentrations, which was likely caused by Met methyltransferase activity in the seeds. Accordingly, we propose that the SMM-hyperaccumulation phenotype is caused by suppressed MGL expression in developing soybean seeds, resulting in transient accumulation of Met, which is converted into SMM to avoid the harmful effects caused by excess free Met.
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- Takuya Teshima
- Division of Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan
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- Nagano Vegetable and Ornamental Crops Experiment Station, Shiojiri, Nagano 399-6461, Japan
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- Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518, Japan
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- Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518, Japan
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- Department of Biofunctional Chemistry, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama700-8530, Japan
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- Division of Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan
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- Department of Agrobiological Resources, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University, Nagoya, Aichi 468-8502, Japan
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- Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8518, Japan
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- Division of Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan
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Maleckova E, Brilhaus D, Wrobel TJ, Weber APM. Transcript and metabolite changes during the early phase of abscisic acid-mediated induction of crassulacean acid metabolism in Talinum triangulare. J Exp Bot 2019; 70:6581-6596. [PMID: 31111894 PMCID: PMC6883267 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erz189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2019] [Accepted: 04/04/2019] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) has evolved as a water-saving strategy, and its engineering into crops offers an opportunity to improve their water use efficiency. This requires a comprehensive understanding of the regulation of the CAM pathway. Here, we use the facultative CAM species Talinum triangulare as a model in which CAM can be induced rapidly by exogenous abscisic acid. RNA sequencing and metabolite measurements were employed to analyse the changes underlying CAM induction and identify potential CAM regulators. Non-negative matrix factorization followed by k-means clustering identified an early CAM-specific cluster and a late one, which was specific for the early light phase. Enrichment analysis revealed abscisic acid metabolism, WRKY-regulated transcription, sugar and nutrient transport, and protein degradation in these clusters. Activation of the CAM pathway was supported by up-regulation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, cytosolic and chloroplastic malic enzymes, and several transport proteins, as well as by increased end-of-night titratable acidity and malate accumulation. The transcription factors HSFA2, NF-YA9, and JMJ27 were identified as candidate regulators of CAM induction. With this study we promote the model species T. triangulare, in which CAM can be induced in a controlled way, enabling further deciphering of CAM regulation.
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- Eva Maleckova
- Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Joshi J, Renaud JB, Sumarah MW, Marsolais F. Deciphering S-methylcysteine biosynthesis in common bean by isotopic tracking with mass spectrometry. Plant J 2019; 100:176-186. [PMID: 31215701 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Revised: 05/22/2019] [Accepted: 06/10/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The suboptimal content of sulfur-containing amino acids methionine and cysteine prevents common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) from being an excellent source of protein. Nutritional improvements to this significant crop require a better understanding of the biosynthesis of sulfur-containing compounds including the nonproteogenic amino acid S-methylcysteine and the dipeptide γ-glutamyl-S-methylcysteine, which accumulate in seed. In this study, seeds were incubated with isotopically labelled serine, cysteine or methionine and analyzed by reverse phase chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry to track stable isotopes as they progressed through the sulfur metabolome. We determined that serine and methionine are the sole precursors of free S-methylcysteine in developing seeds, indicating that this compound is likely to be synthesized through the condensation of O-acetylserine and methanethiol. BSAS4;1, a cytosolic β-substituted alanine synthase preferentially expressed in developing seeds, catalyzed the formation of S-methylcysteine in vitro. A higher flux of labelled serine or cysteine was observed in a sequential pathway involving γ-glutamyl-cysteine, homoglutathione and S-methylhomoglutathione, a likely precursor to γ-glutamyl-S-methylcysteine. Preferential incorporation of serine over cysteine supports a subcellular compartmentation of this pathway, likely to be in the chloroplast. The origin of the methyl group in S-methylhomoglutathione was traced to methionine. There was substantial incorporation of carbons from methionine into the β-alanine portion of homoglutathione and S-methylhomoglutathione, suggesting the breakdown of methionine by methionine γ-lyase and conversion of α-ketobutyrate to β-alanine via propanoate metabolism. These findings delineate the biosynthetic pathways of the sulfur metabolome of common bean and provide an insight that will aid future efforts to improve nutritional quality.
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- Jaya Joshi
- Genomics and Biotechnology, London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, N5V 4T3, Canada
- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada
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- Genomics and Biotechnology, London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, N5V 4T3, Canada
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- Genomics and Biotechnology, London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, N5V 4T3, Canada
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- Genomics and Biotechnology, London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, N5V 4T3, Canada
- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada
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Rathinam M, Mishra P, Mahato AK, Singh NK, Rao U, Sreevathsa R. Comparative transcriptome analyses provide novel insights into the differential response of Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.) and its wild relative (Cajanus platycarpus (Benth.) Maesen) to herbivory by Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner). Plant Mol Biol 2019; 101:163-182. [PMID: 31273589 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-019-00899-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2019] [Accepted: 06/26/2019] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Deeper insights into the resistance response of Cajanus platycarpus were obtained based on comparative transcriptomics under Helicoverpa armigera infestation. Devastation by pod borer, Helicoverpa armigera is one of the major factors for stagnated productivity in Pigeonpea. Despite possessing a multitude of desirable traits including pod borer resistance, wild relatives of Cajanus spp. have remained under-utilized due to linkage drag and cross-incompatibility. Discovery and deployment of genes from them can provide means to tackle key pests like H. armigera. Transcriptomic differences between Cajanus platycarpus and Cajanus cajan during different time points (0, 18, 38, 96 h) of pod borer infestation were elucidated in this study. For the first ever time, we demonstrated captivating variations in their response; C. platycarpus apparently being reasonably agile with effectual transcriptomic reprogramming to deter the insect. Deeper insights into the differential response were obtained by identification of significant GO-terms related to herbivory followed by combined KEGG and ontology analyses. C. platycarpus portrayed a multilevel response with cardinal involvement of SAR, redox homeostasis and reconfiguration of primary metabolites leading to a comprehensive defense response. The credibility of RNA-seq analyses was ascertained by transient expression of selected putative insect resistance genes from C. platycarpus viz., chitinase (CHI4), Alpha-amylase/subtilisin inhibitor (IAAS) and Flavonoid 3_5 hydroxylase (C75A1) in Nicotiana benthamiana followed by efficacy analysis against H. armigera. qPCR validated results of the study provided innovative insights and useful leads for development of durable pod borer resistance.
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- Maniraj Rathinam
- ICAR-National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India
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- ICAR-National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India
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- ICAR-National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Nematology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi, India.
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- ICAR-National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India.
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Matityahu I, Godo I, Hacham Y, Amir R. The level of threonine in tobacco seeds is limited by substrate availability, while the level of methionine is limited also by the activity of cystathionine γ-synthase. Plant Sci 2019; 283:195-201. [PMID: 31128689 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Revised: 01/25/2019] [Accepted: 02/28/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Methionine and threonine are two essential amino acids whose low levels limit the nutritional quality of seeds. The current objective was to define factors that regulate and might increase their levels in seeds. Feeding experiments carried out on receptacles of developing tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) capsules showed that 1 mM of S-methylmethionine increased the level of methionine to contents similar to 2.5 mM of homoserine, an intermediate metabolite of the aspartate family of amino acids. The latter also increased the level of threonine. Based on these findings, we generated tobacco seeds that expressed a combination of bacterial feedback-insensitive aspartate kinase (bAK), which was previously reported to have a high level of threonine/methionine, and feedback-insensitive cystathionine γ-synthase (CGS), the regulatory enzyme of the methionine biosynthesis pathway. Plants expressing this latter gene previously showed having higher levels of methionine. The results of total amino acids analysis showed that the level of threonine was highest in the bAK line, which has moderate levels of methionine and lysine, while the highest level of methionine was found in seeds expressing both heterologous genes. The results suggest that the level of threonine in tobacco seeds is limited by the substrate, while that of methionine is limited also by the activity of CGS.
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- I Matityahu
- Laboratory of Plant Science, Migal - Galilee Technology Center, P.O. Box 831, Kiryat Shmona 12100, Israel
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- Laboratory of Plant Science, Migal - Galilee Technology Center, P.O. Box 831, Kiryat Shmona 12100, Israel
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- Laboratory of Plant Science, Migal - Galilee Technology Center, P.O. Box 831, Kiryat Shmona 12100, Israel; Tel-Hai College, Upper Galilee 11016, Israel
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- Laboratory of Plant Science, Migal - Galilee Technology Center, P.O. Box 831, Kiryat Shmona 12100, Israel; Tel-Hai College, Upper Galilee 11016, Israel.
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Yu Z, Yang Z. Understanding different regulatory mechanisms of proteinaceous and non-proteinaceous amino acid formation in tea (Camellia sinensis) provides new insights into the safe and effective alteration of tea flavor and function. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 2019; 60:844-858. [DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2018.1552245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Zhenming Yu
- Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- College of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Khan N, Bano A, Rahman MA, Rathinasabapathi B, Babar MA. UPLC-HRMS-based untargeted metabolic profiling reveals changes in chickpea (Cicer arietinum) metabolome following long-term drought stress. Plant Cell Environ 2019; 42:115-132. [PMID: 29532945 PMCID: PMC7379973 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2017] [Revised: 03/08/2018] [Accepted: 03/09/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Genetic improvement for drought tolerance in chickpea requires a solid understanding of biochemical processes involved with different physiological mechanisms. The objective of this study is to demonstrate genetic variations in altered metabolic levels in chickpea varieties (tolerant and sensitive) grown under contrasting water regimes through ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography/high-resolution mass spectrometry-based untargeted metabolomic profiling. Chickpea plants were exposed to drought stress at the 3-leaf stage for 25 days, and the leaves were harvested at 14 and 25 days after the imposition of drought stress. Stress produced significant reduction in chlorophyll content, Fv /Fm , relative water content, and shoot and root dry weight. Twenty known metabolites were identified as most important by 2 different methods including significant analysis of metabolites and partial least squares discriminant analysis. The most pronounced increase in accumulation due to drought stress was demonstrated for allantoin, l-proline, l-arginine, l-histidine, l-isoleucine, and tryptophan. Metabolites that showed a decreased level of accumulation under drought conditions were choline, phenylalanine, gamma-aminobutyric acid, alanine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, glucosamine, guanine, and aspartic acid. Aminoacyl-tRNA and plant secondary metabolite biosynthesis and amino acid metabolism or synthesis pathways were involved in producing genetic variation under drought conditions. Metabolic changes in light of drought conditions highlighted pools of metabolites that affect the metabolic and physiological adjustment in chickpea that reduced drought impacts.
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- Naeem Khan
- Department of Plant SciencesQuaid‐I‐Azam UniversityIslamabadPakistan
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- Department of Plant SciencesQuaid‐I‐Azam UniversityIslamabadPakistan
- Department of BiosciencesUniversity of WahWah CantonmentPakistan
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- Department of Agronomy, IFASUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFLUSA
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Hildebrandt TM. Synthesis versus degradation: directions of amino acid metabolism during Arabidopsis abiotic stress response. Plant Mol Biol 2018; 98:121-135. [PMID: 30143990 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-018-0767-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2018] [Accepted: 08/15/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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During abiotic stress low abundant amino acids are not synthesized but they accumulate due to increased protein turnover under conditions inducing carbohydrate starvation (dehydration, salt stress, darkness) and are degraded. Metabolic adaptation is crucial for abiotic stress resistance in plants, and accumulation of specific amino acids as well as secondary metabolites derived from amino acid metabolism has been implicated in increased tolerance to adverse environmental conditions. The role of proline, which is synthesized during Arabidopsis stress response to act as a compatible osmolyte, has been well established. However, conclusions drawn about potential functions of other amino acids such as leucine, valine, and isoleucine are not entirely consistent. This study reevaluates published datasets with a special emphasis on changes in the free amino acid pool and transcriptional regulation of the associated anabolic and catabolic pathways. In order to gain a comprehensive overview about the general direction of amino acid metabolism under abiotic stress conditions a complete map of all currently known enzymatic steps involved in amino acid synthesis and degradation was assembled including also the initial steps leading to the synthesis of secondary metabolites. Microarray datasets and amino acid profiles of Arabidopsis plants exposed to dehydration, high salinity, extended darkness, cold, and heat were systematically analyzed to identify trends in fluxes of amino acid metabolism. Some high abundant amino acids such as proline, arginine, asparagine, glutamine, and GABA are synthesized during abiotic stress to act as compatible osmolytes, precursors for secondary metabolites, or storage forms of organic nitrogen. In contrast, most of the low abundant amino acids are not synthesized but they accumulate due to increased protein turnover under conditions inducing carbohydrate starvation (dehydration, salt stress, extended darkness) and are degraded.
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- Tatjana M Hildebrandt
- Institut für Pflanzengenetik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Straße 2, 30419, Hannover, Germany.
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Wang W, Xu M, Wang G, Galili G. New insights into the metabolism of aspartate-family amino acids in plant seeds. Plant Reprod 2018; 31:203-211. [PMID: 29399717 DOI: 10.1007/s00497-018-0322-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2017] [Accepted: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Aspartate-family amino acids. Aspartate (Asp)-family pathway, via several metabolic branches, leads to four key essential amino acids: Lys, Met, Thr, and Ile. Among these, Lys and Met have received the most attention, as they are the most limiting amino acid in cereals and legumes crops, respectively. The metabolic pathways of these four essential amino acids and their interactions with regulatory networks have been well characterized. Using this knowledge, extensive efforts have been devoted to augmenting the levels of these amino acids in various plant organs, especially seeds, which serve as the main source of human food and livestock feed. Seeds store a number of storage proteins, which are utilized as nutrient and energy resources. Storage proteins are composed of amino acids, to guarantee the continuation of plant progeny. Thus, understanding the seed metabolism, especially with respect to the accumulation of aspartate-derived amino acids Lys and Met, is a crucial factor for sustainable agriculture. In this review, we summarized the Asp-family pathway, with some new examples of accumulated Asp-family amino acids, particularly Lys and Met, in plant seeds. We also discuss the recent advances in understanding the roles of Asp-family amino acids during seed development.
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- Wenyi Wang
- College of Horticulture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
- Department of Plant Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel
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- College of Horticulture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- College of Horticulture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China.
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- Department of Plant Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel.
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Vílchez JI, Niehaus K, Dowling DN, González-López J, Manzanera M. Protection of Pepper Plants from Drought by Microbacterium sp. 3J1 by Modulation of the Plant's Glutamine and α-ketoglutarate Content: A Comparative Metabolomics Approach. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:284. [PMID: 29520258 PMCID: PMC5826947 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2017] [Accepted: 02/07/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Drought tolerance of plants such as tomato or pepper can be improved by their inoculation with rhizobacteria such as Microbacterium sp. 3J1. This interaction depends on the production of trehalose by the microorganisms that in turn modulate the phyto-hormone profile of the plant. In this work we describe the characterization of metabolic changes during the interaction of pepper plants with Microbacterium sp. 3J1 and of the microorganism alone over a period of drought. Our main findings include the observation that the plant responds to the presence of the microorganism by changing the C and N metabolism based on its glutamine and α-ketoglutarate content, these changes contribute to major changes in the concentration of molecules involved in the balance of the osmotic pressure. These include sugars and amino-acids; the concentration of antioxidant molecules, of metabolites involved in the production of phytohormones like ethylene, and of substrates used for lignin production such as ferulic and sinapic acids. Most of the altered metabolites of the plant when inoculated with Microbacterium sp. 3J1 in response to drought coincided with the profile of altered metabolites in the microorganism alone when subjected to drought, pointing to a response by which the plant relies on the microbe for the production of such metabolites. To our knowledge this is the first comparative study of the microbe colonized-plant and microbe alone metabolomes under drought stress.
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- Juan I. Vílchez
- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water Research, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Proteom- und Metabolomforschung, Fakultät für Biologie, Centrum für Biotechnologie, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Department Science & Health, Institute of Technology Carlow, Carlow, Ireland
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water Research, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water Research, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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Amino acid (AA) applications have been reported to affect plant-parasitic nematodes. Here, we analysed the effects of methionine (Met), lysine (Lys), threonine (Thr), isoleucine (Ile), homoserine (Hom) and tryptophan (Trp) on the sedentary plant-parasitic nematode, Heterodera schachtii, under in vitro conditions. No AA showed direct effects on the activity of infective second-stage juveniles (J2) of H. schachtii. Soaking J2 in Lys for 24 h increased the number of developing females and reduced the number of males. Thr treatments reduced the total number of nematodes developing in the host plant. The strongest effects were observed when AA were added to the nutrient medium in a monoxenic Arabidopsis thaliana culture. Ile, Met or Thr clearly reduced the number of female nematodes developing in the host plant. These AA are direct metabolic derivatives of Hom. Direct effects on pre-infective J2 can be differentiated from effects that may involve the host plant.
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- Roman Christopher Blümel
- 1Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), Molecular Phytomedicine, Karlrobert-Kreiten-Straße 13, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
- 2Current address: Bayer Crop Science, Alfred-Nobel-Str. 50, 40789 Monheim, Germany
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- 3Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH, Rodenbacher Chaussee 4, 63457 Hanau-Wolfgang, Germany
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- 1Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), Molecular Phytomedicine, Karlrobert-Kreiten-Straße 13, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
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Teh BT, Lim K, Yong CH, Ng CCY, Rao SR, Rajasegaran V, Lim WK, Ong CK, Chan K, Cheng VKY, Soh PS, Swarup S, Rozen SG, Nagarajan N, Tan P. The draft genome of tropical fruit durian (Durio zibethinus). Nat Genet 2017; 49:1633-41. [DOI: 10.1038/ng.3972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2017] [Accepted: 09/18/2017] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Georgii E, Jin M, Zhao J, Kanawati B, Schmitt-Kopplin P, Albert A, Winkler JB, Schäffner AR. Relationships between drought, heat and air humidity responses revealed by transcriptome-metabolome co-analysis. BMC Plant Biol 2017; 17:120. [PMID: 28693422 PMCID: PMC5504741 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-017-1062-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2016] [Accepted: 06/25/2017] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Elevated temperature and reduced water availability are frequently linked abiotic stresses that may provoke distinct as well as interacting molecular responses. Based on non-targeted metabolomic and transcriptomic measurements from Arabidopsis rosettes, this study aims at a systematic elucidation of relevant components in different drought and heat scenarios as well as relationships between molecular players of stress response. RESULTS In combined drought-heat stress, the majority of single stress responses are maintained. However, interaction effects between drought and heat can be discovered as well; these relate to protein folding, flavonoid biosynthesis and growth inhibition, which are enhanced, reduced or specifically induced in combined stress, respectively. Heat stress experiments with and without supplementation of air humidity for maintenance of vapor pressure deficit suggest that decreased relative air humidity due to elevated temperature is an important component of heat stress, specifically being responsible for hormone-related responses to water deprivation. Remarkably, this "dry air effect" is the primary trigger of the metabolomic response to heat. In contrast, the transcriptomic response has a substantial temperature component exceeding the dry air component and including up-regulation of many transcription factors and protein folding-related genes. Data level integration independent of prior knowledge on pathways and condition labels reveals shared drought and heat responses between transcriptome and metabolome, biomarker candidates and co-regulation between genes and metabolic compounds, suggesting novel players in abiotic stress response pathways. CONCLUSIONS Drought and heat stress interact both at transcript and at metabolite response level. A comprehensive, non-targeted view of this interaction as well as non-interacting processes is important to be taken into account when improving tolerance to abiotic stresses in breeding programs. Transcriptome and metabolome may respond with different extent to individual stress components. Their contrasting behavior in response to temperature stress highlights that the protein folding machinery effectively shields the metabolism from stress. Disentangling the complex relationships between transcriptome and metabolome in response to stress is an enormous challenge. As demonstrated by case studies with supporting evidence from additional data, the large dataset provided in this study may assist in determining linked genetic and metabolic features as candidates for future mechanistic analyses.
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- Elisabeth Georgii
- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Department of Environmental Sciences, Research Unit Analytical Biogeochemistry, Ingolstädter Landstr, 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Department of Environmental Sciences, Research Unit Analytical Biogeochemistry, Ingolstädter Landstr, 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Department of Environmental Sciences, Research Unit Environmental Simulation, Ingolstädter Landstr, 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Department of Environmental Sciences, Research Unit Environmental Simulation, Ingolstädter Landstr, 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany.
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Hacham Y, Matityahu I, Amir R. Transgenic tobacco plants having a higher level of methionine are more sensitive to oxidative stress. Physiol Plant 2017; 160:242-252. [PMID: 28233326 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2016] [Revised: 01/26/2017] [Accepted: 02/06/2017] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Methionine is an essential amino acid the low level of which limits the nutritional quality of plants. We formerly produced transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants overexpressing CYSTATHIONE γ-SYNTHASE (CGS) (FA plants), methionine's main regulatory enzyme. These plants accumulate significantly higher levels of methionine compared with wild-type (WT) plants. The aim of this study was to gain more knowledge about the effect of higher methionine content on the metabolic profile of vegetative tissue and on the morphological and physiological phenotypes. FA plants exhibit slightly reduced growth, and metabolic profiling analysis shows that they have higher contents of stress-related metabolites. Despite this, FA plants were more sensitive to short- and long-term oxidative stresses. In addition, compared with WT plants and transgenic plants expressing an empty vector, the primary metabolic profile of FA was altered less during oxidative stress. Based on morphological and metabolic phenotypes, we strongly proposed that FA plants having higher levels of methionine suffer from stress under non-stress conditions. This might be one of the reasons for their lesser ability to cope with oxidative stress when it appeared. The observation that their metabolic profiling is much less responsive to stress compared with control plants indicates that the delta changes in metabolite contents between non-stress and stress conditions is important for enabling the plants to cope with stress conditions.
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- Yael Hacham
- Department of Plant Science, Migal Kiryat Shmona, 11016, Israel
- Tel-Hai College, Upper Galilee, 11016, Israel
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- Department of Plant Science, Migal Kiryat Shmona, 11016, Israel
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- Department of Plant Science, Migal Kiryat Shmona, 11016, Israel
- Tel-Hai College, Upper Galilee, 11016, Israel
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Kumar P, Jander G. Concurrent Overexpression of Arabidopsis thaliana Cystathionine γ-Synthase and Silencing of Endogenous Methionine γ-Lyase Enhance Tuber Methionine Content in Solanum tuberosum. J Agric Food Chem 2017; 65:2737-2742. [PMID: 28294619 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b00272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) are deficient in methionine, an essential amino acid in human and animal diets. Higher methionine levels increase the nutritional quality and promote the typically pleasant aroma associated with baked and fried potatoes. Several attempts have been made to elevate tuber methionine levels by genetic engineering of methionine biosynthesis and catabolism. Overexpressing Arabidopsis thaliana cystathionine γ-synthase (AtCGS) in S. tuberosum up-regulates a rate-limiting step of methionine biosynthesis and increases tuber methionine levels. Alternatively, silencing S. tuberosum methionine γ-lyase (StMGL), which causes decreased degradation of methionine into 2-ketobutyrate, also increases methionine levels. Concurrently enhancing biosynthesis and reducing degradation were predicted to provide further increases in tuber methionine content. Here we report that S. tuberosum cv. Désirée plants with AtCGS overexpression and StMGL silenced by RNA interference are morphologically normal and accumulate higher free methionine levels than either single-transgenic line.
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- Pavan Kumar
- Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research , 533 Tower Road, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research , 533 Tower Road, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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Sheshadri SA, Nishanth MJ, Simon B. Stress-Mediated cis-Element Transcription Factor Interactions Interconnecting Primary and Specialized Metabolism in planta. Front Plant Sci 2016; 7:1725. [PMID: 27933071 PMCID: PMC5122738 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2016] [Accepted: 11/02/2016] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Plant specialized metabolites are being used worldwide as therapeutic agents against several diseases. Since the precursors for specialized metabolites come through primary metabolism, extensive investigations have been carried out to understand the detailed connection between primary and specialized metabolism at various levels. Stress regulates the expression of primary and specialized metabolism genes at the transcriptional level via transcription factors binding to specific cis-elements. The presence of varied cis-element signatures upstream to different stress-responsive genes and their transcription factor binding patterns provide a prospective molecular link among diverse metabolic pathways. The pattern of occurrence of these cis-elements (overrepresentation/common) decipher the mechanism of stress-responsive upregulation of downstream genes, simultaneously forming a molecular bridge between primary and specialized metabolisms. Though many studies have been conducted on the transcriptional regulation of stress-mediated primary or specialized metabolism genes, but not much data is available with regard to cis-element signatures and transcription factors that simultaneously modulate both pathway genes. Hence, our major focus would be to present a comprehensive analysis of the stress-mediated interconnection between primary and specialized metabolism genes via the interaction between different transcription factors and their corresponding cis-elements. In future, this study could be further utilized for the overexpression of the specific transcription factors that upregulate both primary and specialized metabolism, thereby simultaneously improving the yield and therapeutic content of plants.
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- School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA UniversityThanjavur, India
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Asai T, Matsukawa T, Kajiyama S. Metabolomic analysis of primary metabolites in citrus leaf during defense responses. J Biosci Bioeng 2016; 123:376-381. [PMID: 27789172 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2016.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2016] [Revised: 09/22/2016] [Accepted: 09/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Mechanical damage is one of the unavoidable environmental stresses to plant growth and development. Plants induce a variety of reactions which defend against natural enemies and/or heal the wounded sites. Jasmonic acid (JA) and salicylic acid (SA), defense-related plant hormones, are well known to be involved in induction of defense reactions and play important roles as signal molecules. However, defense related metabolites are so numerous and diverse that roles of individual compounds are still to be elucidated. In this report, we carried out a comprehensive analysis of metabolic changes during wound response in citrus plants which are one of the most commercially important fruit tree families. Changes in amino acid, sugar, and organic acid profiles in leaves were surveyed after wounding, JA and SA treatments using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) in seven citrus species, Citrus sinensis, Citrus limon, Citrus paradisi, Citrus unshiu, Citrus kinokuni, Citrus grandis, and Citrus hassaku. GC/MS data were applied to multivariate analyses including hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), primary component analysis (PCA), and orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) to extract stress-related compounds. HCA showed the amino acid cluster including phenylalanine and tryptophan, suggesting that amino acids in this cluster are concertedly regulated during responses against treatments. OPLS-DA exhibited that tryptophan was accumulated after wounding and JA treatments in all species tested, while serine was down regulated. Our results suggest that tryptophan and serine are common biomarker candidates in citrus plants for wound stress.
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- Tomonori Asai
- Graduated School of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kinki University, 930 Nishimitani, Kinokawa, Wakayama, 649-6493, Japan
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- Graduated School of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kinki University, 930 Nishimitani, Kinokawa, Wakayama, 649-6493, Japan; Experimental Farm, Kinki University, Yuasa-cho, Arida-gun, Wakayama, 643-0004, Japan
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- Graduated School of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kinki University, 930 Nishimitani, Kinokawa, Wakayama, 649-6493, Japan.
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Ye Z, Sangireddy S, Okekeogbu I, Zhou S, Yu CL, Hui D, Howe KJ, Fish T, Thannhauser TW. Drought-Induced Leaf Proteome Changes in Switchgrass Seedlings. Int J Mol Sci 2016; 17:ijms17081251. [PMID: 27490537 PMCID: PMC5000649 DOI: 10.3390/ijms17081251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2016] [Revised: 07/24/2016] [Accepted: 07/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) is a perennial crop producing deep roots and thus highly tolerant to soil water deficit conditions. However, seedling establishment in the field is very susceptible to prolonged and periodic drought stress. In this study, a “sandwich” system simulating a gradual water deletion process was developed. Switchgrass seedlings were subjected to a 20-day gradual drought treatment process when soil water tension was increased to 0.05 MPa (moderate drought stress) and leaf physiological properties had expressed significant alteration. Drought-induced changes in leaf proteomes were identified using the isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) labeling method followed by nano-scale liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (nano-LC-MS/MS) analysis. Additionally, total leaf proteins were processed using a combinatorial library of peptide ligands to enrich for lower abundance proteins. Both total proteins and those enriched samples were analyzed to increase the coverage of the quantitative proteomics analysis. A total of 7006 leaf proteins were identified, and 257 (4% of the leaf proteome) expressed a significant difference (p < 0.05, fold change <0.6 or >1.7) from the non-treated control to drought-treated conditions. These proteins are involved in the regulation of transcription and translation, cell division, cell wall modification, phyto-hormone metabolism and signaling transduction pathways, and metabolic pathways of carbohydrates, amino acids, and fatty acids. A scheme of abscisic acid (ABA)-biosynthesis and ABA responsive signal transduction pathway was reconstructed using these drought-induced significant proteins, showing systemic regulation at protein level to deploy the respective mechanism. Results from this study, in addition to revealing molecular responses to drought stress, provide a large number of proteins (candidate genes) that can be employed to improve switchgrass seedling growth and establishment under soil drought conditions (Data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD004675).
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- Zhujia Ye
- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Tennessee State University, 3500 John Merritt Blvd, Nashville, TN 37209, USA.
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Tennessee State University, 3500 John Merritt Blvd, Nashville, TN 37209, USA.
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Tennessee State University, 3500 John Merritt Blvd, Nashville, TN 37209, USA.
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Tennessee State University, 3500 John Merritt Blvd, Nashville, TN 37209, USA.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, 3500 John Merritt Blvd, Nashville, TN 37209, USA.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, 3500 John Merritt Blvd, Nashville, TN 37209, USA.
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- Functional & Comparative Proteomics Center, USDA-ARS, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
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- Functional & Comparative Proteomics Center, USDA-ARS, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
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- Functional & Comparative Proteomics Center, USDA-ARS, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
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Gagné-Bourque F, Bertrand A, Claessens A, Aliferis KA, Jabaji S. Alleviation of Drought Stress and Metabolic Changes in Timothy (Phleum pratense L.) Colonized with Bacillus subtilis B26. Front Plant Sci 2016; 7:584. [PMID: 27200057 PMCID: PMC4854170 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2015] [Accepted: 04/15/2016] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Drought is a major limiting factor of crop productivity worldwide and its incidence is predicted to increase under climate change. Drought adaptation of cool-season grasses is thus a major challenge to secure the agricultural productivity under current and future climate conditions. Endophytes are non-pathogenic plant-associated bacteria that can play an important role in conferring resistance and improving plant tolerance to drought. In this study, the effect of inoculation of the bacterial endophyte Bacillus subtilis strain B26 on growth, water status, photosynthetic activity and metabolism of timothy (Phleum pratense L.) subjected to drought stress was investigated under controlled conditions. Under both drought-stress and non-stressed conditions, strain B26 successfully colonized the internal tissues of timothy and had a positive impact on plant growth. Exposure of inoculated plant to a 8-week drought-stress led to significant increase in shoot and root biomass by 26.6 and 63.8%, and in photosynthesis and stomatal conductance by 55.2 and 214.9% respectively, compared to non-inoculated plants grown under similar conditions. There was a significant effect of the endophyte on plant metabolism; higher levels of several sugars, notably sucrose and fructans and an increase of key amino acids such as, asparagine, glutamic acid and glutamine were recorded in shoots and roots of colonized plants compared to non-colonized ones. The accumulation of the non-protein amino acid GABA in shoots of stressed plants and in roots of stressed and unstressed plants was increased in the presence of the endophyte. Taken together, our results indicate that B. subtilis B26 improves timothy growth under drought stress through the modification of osmolyte accumulation in roots and shoots. These results will contribute to the development of a microbial agent to improve the yield of grass species including forage crops and cereals exposed to environmental stresses.
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- François Gagné-Bourque
- Department of Plant Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-BellevueQC, Canada
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- Quebec Research and Development Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Québec CityQC, Canada
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- Quebec Research and Development Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Québec CityQC, Canada
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- Department of Plant Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-BellevueQC, Canada
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- Department of Plant Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-BellevueQC, Canada
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Although amino acids are critical for all forms of life, only proteogenic amino acids that humans and animals cannot synthesize de novo and therefore must acquire in their diets are classified as essential. Nine amino acids-lysine, methionine, threonine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, valine, isoleucine, leucine, and histidine-fit this definition. Despite their nutritional importance, several of these amino acids are present in limiting quantities in many of the world's major crops. In recent years, a combination of reverse genetic and biochemical approaches has been used to define the genes encoding the enzymes responsible for synthesizing, degrading, and regulating these amino acids. In this review, we describe recent advances in our understanding of the metabolism of the essential amino acids, discuss approaches for enhancing their levels in plants, and appraise efforts toward their biofortification in crop plants.
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- Gad Galili
- Department of Plant Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel;
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- Laboratory of Plant Science, MIGAL-Galilee Research Institute, Kiryat Shmona 11016, Israel;
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- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany;
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Kamal AHM, Komatsu S. Jasmonic acid induced protein response to biophoton emissions and flooding stress in soybean. J Proteomics 2016; 133:33-47. [PMID: 26655678 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2015.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2015] [Revised: 11/21/2015] [Accepted: 12/03/2015] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Biophoton emissions were elevated by the exogenous plant hormone application such as jasmonic (JA) and salicylic acid (SA). To reveal the molecular mechanisms underlying flooding stress responses in soybean treated with JA and SA, biophoton emissions from plants were quantified in combination with proteomic analyses. Furthermore, treatment with exogenous JA inhibited lateral root growth and markedly reduced root weight. Out of 649 proteins identified in the JA- and JA/SA-treated plants, 44 were unique to JA-treated plants, 403 were unique to JA/SA-treated plants, and 202 were shared between the groups. These proteins were involved in stress, signaling, degradation, glycolysis, fermentation, and hormone metabolism. The abundances of glutathione-S-transferase, alanine aminotransferase, and malate dehydrogenase were decreased; however, the activities of these enzymes were increased. In contrast, the abundance and activity of monodehydroascorbate reductase increased in the roots of plants treated with JA and SA under flooding stress. This suggests that the quantity of lateral roots, total root mass, and free radicals generated during oxidation and reduction reactions and reactive oxygen species scavenging largely contribute to biophoton emission. Furthermore, monodehydroascorbate reductase, which is involved in detoxification and controlling hydrogen peroxide levels, may protect plant cells against oxidative damage during flooding. BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE To understand the source of biophoton emission and molecular mechanism by the application of jasmonic and salicylic acid under flooding conditions in soybean plants, the label-free quantitative techniques were performed in roots. Root lengths and weights were significantly reduced by the effect of jasmonic and salicylic acid while it inhibited growth of the lateral roots in normal conditions using the jasmonic acid. Finally, identified proteins were functionally annotated by MAPMAN software application; that were assigned to different functional categories, such as stress, signaling, protein, glycolysis, metabolism, cell wall, and cell organization. Consequently, this study offers to learn the photon emission in plants and to know the molecular mechanism under flooding stress in soybean.
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- Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal
- National Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba 305-8518, Japan
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- National Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba 305-8518, Japan.
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Díaz-Riquelme J, Zhurov V, Rioja C, Pérez-Moreno I, Torres-Pérez R, Grimplet J, Carbonell-Bejerano P, Bajda S, Van Leeuwen T, Martínez-Zapater JM, Grbic M, Grbic V. Comparative genome-wide transcriptome analysis of Vitis vinifera responses to adapted and non-adapted strains of two-spotted spider mite, Tetranyhus urticae. BMC Genomics 2016; 17:74. [PMID: 26801623 PMCID: PMC4724079 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2401-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2015] [Accepted: 01/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Background The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, is an extreme generalist plant pest. Even though mites can feed on many plant species, local mite populations form host races that do not perform equally well on all potential hosts. An acquisition of the ability to evade plant defenses is fundamental for mite’s ability to use a particular plant as a host. Thus, understanding the interactions between the plant and mites with different host adaptation status allows the identification of functional plant defenses and ways mites can evolve to avoid them. Results The grapevine genome-wide transcriptional responses to spider mite strains that are non-adapted and adapted to grapevine as a host were examined. Comparative transcriptome analysis of grapevine responses to these mite strains identified the existence of weak responses induced by the feeding of the non-adapted strain. In contrast, strong but ineffective induced defenses were triggered upon feeding of the adapted strain. A comparative meta-analysis of Arabidopsis, tomato and grapevine responses to mite feeding identified a core of 36 highly conserved genes involved in the perception, regulation and metabolism that were commonly induced in all three species by mite herbivory. Conclusions This study describes the genome-wide grapevine transcriptional responses to herbivory of mite strains that differ in their ability to use grapevine as a host. It raises hypotheses whose testing will lead to our understanding of grapevine defenses and mite adaptations to them. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-016-2401-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Jose Díaz-Riquelme
- Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A5B7, Canada. .,Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino, 26006, Logroño, Spain.
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- Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A5B7, Canada.
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- Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A5B7, Canada. .,Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino, 26006, Logroño, Spain.
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- Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino, 26006, Logroño, Spain.
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- Department of Crop Protection, Ghent University, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium. .,Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Crop Protection, Ghent University, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium. .,Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A5B7, Canada. .,Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino, 26006, Logroño, Spain.
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- Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A5B7, Canada. .,Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino, 26006, Logroño, Spain.
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Hildebrandt TM, Nunes Nesi A, Araújo WL, Braun HP. Amino Acid Catabolism in Plants. Mol Plant 2015; 8:1563-79. [PMID: 26384576 DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2015.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 521] [Impact Index Per Article: 57.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2015] [Revised: 09/07/2015] [Accepted: 09/08/2015] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Amino acids have various prominent functions in plants. Besides their usage during protein biosynthesis, they also represent building blocks for several other biosynthesis pathways and play pivotal roles during signaling processes as well as in plant stress response. In general, pool sizes of the 20 amino acids differ strongly and change dynamically depending on the developmental and physiological state of the plant cell. Besides amino acid biosynthesis, which has already been investigated in great detail, the catabolism of amino acids is of central importance for adjusting their pool sizes but so far has drawn much less attention. The degradation of amino acids can also contribute substantially to the energy state of plant cells under certain physiological conditions, e.g. carbon starvation. In this review, we discuss the biological role of amino acid catabolism and summarize current knowledge on amino acid degradation pathways and their regulation in the context of plant cell physiology.
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- Tatjana M Hildebrandt
- Institut für Pflanzengenetik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Straße 2, 30419 Hannover, Germany.
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- Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais 36570-900, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais 36570-900, Brazil.
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- Institut für Pflanzengenetik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Straße 2, 30419 Hannover, Germany
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Pushpavalli R, Krishnamurthy L, Thudi M, Gaur PM, Rao MV, Siddique KHM, Colmer TD, Turner NC, Varshney RK, Vadez V. Two key genomic regions harbour QTLs for salinity tolerance in ICCV 2 × JG 11 derived chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) recombinant inbred lines. BMC Plant Biol 2015; 15:124. [PMID: 25994494 PMCID: PMC4440540 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-015-0491-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Accepted: 04/09/2015] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND Although chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), an important food legume crop, is sensitive to salinity, considerable variation for salinity tolerance exists in the germplasm. To improve any existing cultivar, it is important to understand the genetic and physiological mechanisms underlying this tolerance. RESULTS In the present study, 188 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) derived from the cross ICCV 2 × JG 11 were used to assess yield and related traits in a soil with 0 mM NaCl (control) and 80 mM NaCl (salinity) over two consecutive years. Salinity significantly (P < 0.05) affected almost all traits across years and yield reduction was in large part related to a reduction in seed number but also a reduction in above ground biomass. A genetic map was constructed using 56 polymorphic markers (28 simple sequence repeats; SSRs and 28 single nucleotide polymorphisms; SNPs). The QTL analysis revealed two key genomic regions on CaLG05 (28.6 cM) and on CaLG07 (19.4 cM), that harboured QTLs for six and five different salinity tolerance associated traits, respectively, and imparting either higher plant vigour (on CaLG05) or higher reproductive success (on CaLG07). Two major QTLs for yield in the salinity treatment (explaining 12 and 17% of the phenotypic variation) were identified within the two key genomic regions. Comparison with already published chickpea genetic maps showed that these regions conferred salinity tolerance across two other populations and the markers can be deployed for enhancing salinity tolerance in chickpea. Based on the gene ontology annotation, forty eight putative candidate genes responsive to salinity stress were found on CaLG05 (31 genes) and CaLG07 (17 genes) in a distance of 11.1 Mb and 8.2 Mb on chickpea reference genome. Most of the genes were known to be involved in achieving osmoregulation under stress conditions. CONCLUSION Identification of putative candidate genes further strengthens the idea of using CaLG05 and CaLG07 genomic regions for marker assisted breeding (MAB). Further fine mapping of these key genomic regions may lead to novel gene identification for salinity stress tolerance in chickpea.
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- Raju Pushpavalli
- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru 502 234, Telangana State, India.
- Department of Plant Science, Bharathidasan University, 620024, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru 502 234, Telangana State, India.
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru 502 234, Telangana State, India.
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru 502 234, Telangana State, India.
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- Department of Plant Science, Bharathidasan University, 620024, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
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- The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia.
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- School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, , Crawley, WA, Australia.
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- The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia.
- Centre for Plant Genetics and Breeding, M080, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, Crawley, WA, Australia.
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru 502 234, Telangana State, India.
- School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009, , Crawley, WA, Australia.
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru 502 234, Telangana State, India.
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Hamanishi ET, Barchet GLH, Dauwe R, Mansfield SD, Campbell MM. Poplar trees reconfigure the transcriptome and metabolome in response to drought in a genotype- and time-of-day-dependent manner. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:329. [PMID: 25895923 PMCID: PMC4437445 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1535-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2015] [Accepted: 04/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Drought has a major impact on tree growth and survival. Understanding tree responses to this stress can have important application in both conservation of forest health, and in production forestry. Trees of the genus Populus provide an excellent opportunity to explore the mechanistic underpinnings of forest tree drought responses, given the growing molecular resources that are available for this taxon. Here, foliar tissue of six water-deficit stressed P. balsamifera genotypes was analysed for variation in the metabolome in response to drought and time of day by using an untargeted metabolite profiling technique, gas chromatography/mass-spectrometry (GC/MS). RESULTS Significant variation in the metabolome was observed in response the imposition of water-deficit stress. Notably, organic acid intermediates such as succinic and malic acid had lower concentrations in leaves exposed to drought, whereas galactinol and raffinose were found in increased concentrations. A number of metabolites with significant difference in accumulation under water-deficit conditions exhibited intraspecific variation in metabolite accumulation. Large magnitude fold-change accumulation was observed in three of the six genotypes. In order to understand the interaction between the transcriptome and metabolome, an integrated analysis of the drought-responsive transcriptome and the metabolome was performed. One P. balsamifera genotype, AP-1006, demonstrated a lack of congruence between the magnitude of the drought transcriptome response and the magnitude of the metabolome response. More specifically, metabolite profiles in AP-1006 demonstrated the smallest changes in response to water-deficit conditions. CONCLUSIONS Pathway analysis of the transcriptome and metabolome revealed specific genotypic responses with respect to primary sugar accumulation, citric acid metabolism, and raffinose family oligosaccharide biosynthesis. The intraspecific variation in the molecular strategies that underpin the responses to drought among genotypes may have an important role in the maintenance of forest health and productivity.
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- Erin T Hamanishi
- Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, 33 Willcocks St., Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada.
- Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks St., Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada.
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- Department of Wood Science, University of British Columbia, 4030-2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
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- Department of Wood Science, University of British Columbia, 4030-2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
- Current address: Département des sciences agronomiques et écologiques, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, 80039 cedex, France.
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- Department of Wood Science, University of British Columbia, 4030-2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
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- Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, 33 Willcocks St., Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada.
- Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks St., Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada.
- Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks St., Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada.
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4, Canada.
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Yan J, Aboshi T, Teraishi M, Strickler SR, Spindel JE, Tung CW, Takata R, Matsumoto F, Maesaka Y, McCouch SR, Okumoto Y, Mori N, Jander G. The Tyrosine Aminomutase TAM1 Is Required for β-Tyrosine Biosynthesis in Rice. Plant Cell 2015; 27:1265-78. [PMID: 25901084 PMCID: PMC4558700 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.15.00058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2015] [Revised: 03/19/2015] [Accepted: 04/03/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Non-protein amino acids, often isomers of the standard 20 protein amino acids, have defense-related functions in many plant species. A targeted search for jasmonate-induced metabolites in cultivated rice (Oryza sativa) identified (R)-β-tyrosine, an isomer of the common amino acid (S)-α-tyrosine in the seeds, leaves, roots, and root exudates of the Nipponbare cultivar. Assays with 119 diverse cultivars showed a distinct presence/absence polymorphism, with β-tyrosine being most prevalent in temperate japonica cultivars. Genetic mapping identified a candidate gene on chromosome 12, which was confirmed to encode a tyrosine aminomutase (TAM1) by transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana and in vitro enzyme assays. A point mutation in TAM1 eliminated β-tyrosine production in Nipponbare. Rice cultivars that do not produce β-tyrosine have a chromosome 12 deletion that encompasses TAM1. Although β-tyrosine accumulation was induced by the plant defense signaling molecule jasmonic acid, bioassays with hemipteran and lepidopteran herbivores showed no negative effects at physiologically relevant β-tyrosine concentrations. In contrast, root growth of Arabidopsis thaliana and other tested dicot plants was inhibited by concentrations as low as 1 μM. As β-tyrosine is exuded into hydroponic medium at higher concentrations, it may contribute to the allelopathic potential of rice.
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- Jian Yan
- Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 808-8502, Japan
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- Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, School of Integrated Plant Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, School of Integrated Plant Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 808-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 808-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 808-8502, Japan
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- Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, School of Integrated Plant Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 808-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 808-8502, Japan
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- Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York 14853
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Zhang C, Pang Q, Jiang L, Wang S, Yan X, Chen S, He Y. Dihydroxyacid dehydratase is important for gametophyte development and disruption causes increased susceptibility to salinity stress in Arabidopsis. J Exp Bot 2015; 66:879-88. [PMID: 25399005 PMCID: PMC4321549 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Dihydroxyacid dehydratase (DHAD) catalyses a key step in the branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) biosynthetic pathway that exists in numerous organisms, including bacteria, fungi, and plants, but not humans. In Arabidopsis thaliana, DHAD is encoded by a single gene (AT3G23940), but its biological function in controlling plant development remains uncharacterized. In this study, we showed that DHAD is highly expressed in most vegetative and reproductive tissues. It is an essential gene, and complete disruption caused partial sterility in both male and female gametophyte phases. In addition, reduced expression of DHAD in knockdown mutants resulted in a reduction in the accumulation of all three BCAAs in roots and, as a consequence, led to a shorter root phenotype, which could be restored by an exogenous supplement of free BCAAs. Interestingly, the knockdown mutants became hypersensitive to salt stress, not to heavy metal stress, implying that BCAAs may act as osmolytes in salt tolerance. This would be the second amino acid shown to confer such a function in addition to the well-documented proline. Our results provide evidence that BCAA biosynthesis plays important roles in gametophyte and root development, and BCAA homeostasis contributes to the adaptation of Arabidopsis to salinity stress.
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- Chun Zhang
- National Maize Improvement Centre of China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Alkali Soil Natural Environmental Science Centre, Key Laboratory of Saline-alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration in Oil Field, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- National Maize Improvement Centre of China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- National Maize Improvement Centre of China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Alkali Soil Natural Environmental Science Centre, Key Laboratory of Saline-alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration in Oil Field, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Biology, Genetics Institute, and Plant Molecular & Cellular Biology Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- National Maize Improvement Centre of China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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Yan J, Lipka AE, Schmelz EA, Buckler ES, Jander G. Accumulation of 5-hydroxynorvaline in maize (Zea mays) leaves is induced by insect feeding and abiotic stress. J Exp Bot 2015; 66:593-602. [PMID: 25271262 PMCID: PMC4286406 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Plants produce a wide variety of defensive metabolites to protect themselves against herbivores and pathogens. Non-protein amino acids, which are present in many plant species, can have a defensive function through their mis-incorporation during protein synthesis and/or inhibition of biosynthetic pathways in primary metabolism. 5-Hydroxynorvaline was identified in a targeted search for previously unknown non-protein amino acids in the leaves of maize (Zea mays) inbred line B73. Accumulation of this compound increases during herbivory by aphids (Rhopalosiphum maidis, corn leaf aphid) and caterpillars (Spodoptera exigua, beet armyworm), as well as in response to treatment with the plant signalling molecules methyl jasmonate, salicylic acid and abscisic acid. In contrast, ethylene signalling reduced 5-hydroxynorvaline abundance. Drought stress induced 5-hydroxynorvaline accumulation to a higher level than insect feeding or treatment with defence signalling molecules. In field-grown plants, the 5-hydroxynorvaline concentration was highest in above-ground vegetative tissue, but it was also detectable in roots and dry seeds. When 5-hydroxynorvaline was added to aphid artificial diet at concentrations similar to those found in maize leaves and stems, R. maidis reproduction was reduced, indicating that this maize metabolite may have a defensive function. Among 27 tested maize inbred lines there was a greater than 10-fold range in the accumulation of foliar 5-hydroxynorvaline. Genetic mapping populations derived from a subset of these inbred lines were used to map quantitative trait loci for 5-hydroxynorvaline accumulation to maize chromosomes 5 and 7.
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- Jian Yan
- Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Chemistry Research Unit, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, NY, USA Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Frank A, Cohen H, Hoffman D, Amir R. Methionine and S-methylmethionine exhibit temporal and spatial accumulation patterns during the Arabidopsis life cycle. Amino Acids 2014; 47:497-510. [PMID: 25488426 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-014-1881-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2014] [Accepted: 11/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Methionine is a nutritionally essential sulfur-containing amino acid found at low levels in plant tissues. Yet, the factors that regulate its synthesis and accumulation in seeds are not fully known. Recent genetic studies demonstrate that Arabidopsis seeds are able to synthesize methionine de novo through the aspartate family pathway similarly to vegetative tissues; however, additional biochemical studies suggest that the S-methylmethionine (SMM) cycle also plays a major role in methionine synthesis in seeds. To better understand the contribution of these two pathways to methionine synthesis, we have sampled various vegetative and reproductive tissues during the Arabidopsis life cycle and determined the contents of soluble and protein-incorporated methionine, SMM, as well as the expression levels of the key genes involved in these two pathways. Our results strengthen the hypothesis that SMM that is produced in the rosette leaves from methionine contributes to methionine accumulation in seeds. However, the SMM cycle may have additional functions in plant tissues since its key genes were expressed in all of the examined tissues, although at different rates. The accumulation patterns of soluble and protein-incorporated methionine during the Arabidopsis life cycle were found to be similar to most of the other amino acids, especially to those belonging to the branched-chain and aromatic amino acids that are produced in chloroplasts together with methionine. This indicates that similar factors regulate the levels of amino acids during development.
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- Alon Frank
- Laboratory of Plant Science, Migal, Galilee Research Institute Ltd., P.O.B. 831, 11016, Kiryat Shmona, Israel
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Amino acids play several critical roles in plants, from providing the building blocks of proteins to being essential metabolites interacting with many branches of metabolism. They are also important molecules that shuttle organic nitrogen through the plant. Because of this central role in nitrogen metabolism, amino acid biosynthesis, degradation, and transport are tightly regulated to meet demand in response to nitrogen and carbon availability. While much is known about the feedback regulation of the branched biosynthesis pathways by the amino acids themselves, the regulation mechanisms at the transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and protein levels remain to be identified. This review focuses mainly on the current state of our understanding of the regulation of the enzymes and transporters at the transcript level. Current results describing the effect of transcription factors and protein modifications lead to a fragmental picture that hints at multiple, complex levels of regulation that control and coordinate transport and enzyme activities. It also appears that amino acid metabolism, amino acid transport, and stress signal integration can influence each other in a so-far unpredictable fashion.
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- Réjane Pratelli
- Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA
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- Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA
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Huang T, Joshi V, Jander G. The catabolic enzyme methionine gamma-lyase limits methionine accumulation in potato tubers. Plant Biotechnol J 2014; 12:883-93. [PMID: 24738868 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2013] [Revised: 03/07/2014] [Accepted: 03/17/2014] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Increasing methionine in potato tubers is desirable, both to increase the availability of this limiting essential amino acid and to enhance the aroma of baked and fried potatoes. Previous attempts to elevate potato methionine content using transgenic approaches have focused on increasing methionine biosynthesis. Higher isoleucine accumulation in these transgenic tubers suggested that the potatoes compensate for increased methionine biosynthesis with enhanced catabolism via methionine gamma-lyase (MGL), thereby producing 2-ketybutyrate for isoleucine biosynthesis. In the current study, we show that potato StMGL1 encodes a functional MGL in potato tubers. In planta silencing of StMGL1 results in an increased methionine to isoleucine ratio in the free amino acid profile of potato tubers and, in some transgenic lines, elevated accumulation of free methionine. In both wild-type and transgenic tubers, the ratio of methionine to isoleucine is negatively correlated with the level of StMGL1 transcript. A three-dimensional distribution of free amino acids in potato tubers is also described.
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- Tengfang Huang
- Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Liu X, Xu J, Wang J, Ji F, Yin X, Shi J. Involvement of threonine deaminase FgIlv1 in isoleucine biosynthesis and full virulence in Fusarium graminearum. Curr Genet 2014; 61:55-65. [PMID: 25129826 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-014-0444-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2014] [Revised: 08/05/2014] [Accepted: 08/07/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In this study we characterized FgIlv1, a homologue of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae threonine dehydratase (TD) from the important Fusarium head blight fungus Fusarium graminearum. TD catalyzes the first step in the biosynthesis pathway of isoleucine (Ile) for conversion of threonine (Thr) to 2-ketobutyrate (2-KB). The FgILV1 deletion mutant ΔFgIlv1-3 was unable to grow on minimal medium or fructose gelatin agar which lacked Ile. Exogenous supplementation of Ile or 2-KB but not Thr rescued the mycelial growth defect of ΔFgIlv1-3, indicating the involvement of FgIlv1 in the conversion of Thr to 2-KB in Ile biosynthesis. Additionally, exogenous supplementation of Methionine (Met) could also rescue the mycelial growth defect of ΔFgIlv1-3, indicating a crosstalk between Ile biosynthesis and Met catabolism in F. graminearum. Deletion of FgILV1 also caused defects in conidial formation and germination. In addition, ΔFgIlv1-3 displayed decreased virulence on wheat heads and a low level of deoxynivalenol (DON) production in wheat kernels. Taken together, results of this study indicate that FgIlv1 is an essential component in Ile biosynthesis and is required for various cellular processes including mycelial and conidial morphogenesis, DON biosynthesis, and full virulence in F. graminearum. Our data indicate the potential of targeting Ile biosynthesis for anti-FHB management.
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- Xin Liu
- Key Laboratory of Food Quality and Safety of Jiangsu Province-State Key Laboratory Breeding Base/Key Laboratory of Control Technology and Standard for Agro-Product Safety and Quality (Nanjing), Ministry of Agriculture/Institute of Food Quality and Safety, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, 210014, China
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Matityahu I, Godo I, Hacham Y, Amir R. Tobacco seeds expressing feedback-insensitive cystathionine gamma-synthase exhibit elevated content of methionine and altered primary metabolic profile. BMC Plant Biol 2013; 13:206. [PMID: 24314105 PMCID: PMC3878949 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2013] [Accepted: 12/03/2013] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND The essential sulfur-containing amino acid methionine plays a vital role in plant metabolism and human nutrition. In this study, we aimed to elucidate the regulatory role of the first committed enzyme in the methionine biosynthesis pathway, cystathionine γ-synthase (CGS), on methionine accumulation in tobacco seeds. We also studied the effect of this manipulation on the seed's metabolism. RESULTS Two forms of Arabidopsis CGS (AtCGS) were expressed under the control of the seeds-specific promoter of legumin B4: feedback-sensitive F-AtCGS (LF seeds), and feedback-insensitive T-AtCGS (LT seeds). Unexpectedly, the soluble content of methionine was reduced significantly in both sets of transgenic seeds. Amino acids analysis and feeding experiments indicated that although the level of methionine was reduced, the flux through its synthesis had increased. As a result, the level of protein-incorporated methionine had increased significantly in LT seeds by up to 60%, but this was not observed in LF seeds, whose methionine content is tightly regulated. This increase was accompanied by a higher content of other protein-incorporated amino acids, which led to 27% protein content in the seeds although this was statistically insignificantly. In addition, the levels of reducing sugars (representing starch) were slightly but significantly reduced, while that of oil was insignificantly reduced. To assess the impact of the high expression level of T-AtCGS in seeds on other primary metabolites, metabolic profiling using GC-MS was performed. This revealed significant alterations to the primary seed metabolism manifested by a significant increase in eight annotated metabolites (mostly sugars and their oxidized derivatives), while the levels of 12 other metabolites were reduced significantly in LT compared to wild-type seeds. CONCLUSION Expression of T-AtCGS leads to an increase in the level of total Met, higher contents of total amino acids, and significant changes in the levels of 20 annotated metabolites. The high level of oxidized metabolites, the two stress-associated amino acids, proline and serine, and low level of glutathione suggest oxidative stress that occurs during LT seed development. This study provides information on the metabolic consequence of increased CGS activity in seeds and how it affects the seed's nutritional quality.
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- Ifat Matityahu
- Laboratory of Plant Science, Migal Galilee Technology Center, P.O. Box 831, Kiryat Shmona 12100, Israel
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- Laboratory of Plant Science, Migal Galilee Technology Center, P.O. Box 831, Kiryat Shmona 12100, Israel
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- Laboratory of Plant Science, Migal Galilee Technology Center, P.O. Box 831, Kiryat Shmona 12100, Israel
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- Laboratory of Plant Science, Migal Galilee Technology Center, P.O. Box 831, Kiryat Shmona 12100, Israel
- Tel Hai College, Upper Galilee, Israel
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Hacham Y, Matityahu I, Amir R. Light and sucrose up-regulate the expression level of Arabidopsis cystathionine γ-synthase, the key enzyme of methionine biosynthesis pathway. Amino Acids 2013; 45:1179-90. [DOI: 10.1007/s00726-013-1576-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2013] [Accepted: 08/02/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Atkinson NJ, Lilley CJ, Urwin PE. Identification of genes involved in the response of Arabidopsis to simultaneous biotic and abiotic stresses. Plant Physiol 2013; 162:2028-41. [PMID: 23800991 PMCID: PMC3729780 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.222372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2013] [Accepted: 06/19/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In field conditions, plants may experience numerous environmental stresses at any one time. Research suggests that the plant response to multiple stresses is different from that for individual stresses, producing nonadditive effects. In particular, the molecular signaling pathways controlling biotic and abiotic stress responses may interact and antagonize one another. The transcriptome response of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) to concurrent water deficit (abiotic stress) and infection with the plant-parasitic nematode Heterodera schachtii (biotic stress) was analyzed by microarray. A unique program of gene expression was activated in response to a combination of water deficit and nematode stress, with 50 specifically multiple-stress-regulated genes. Candidate genes with potential roles in controlling the response to multiple stresses were selected and functionally characterized. RAPID ALKALINIZATION FACTOR-LIKE8 (AtRALFL8) was induced in roots by joint stresses but conferred susceptibility to drought stress and nematode infection when overexpressed. Constitutively expressing plants had stunted root systems and extended root hairs. Plants may produce signal peptides such as AtRALFL8 to induce cell wall remodeling in response to multiple stresses. The methionine homeostasis gene METHIONINE GAMMA LYASE (AtMGL) was up-regulated by dual stress in leaves, conferring resistance to nematodes when overexpressed. It may regulate methionine metabolism under conditions of multiple stresses. AZELAIC ACID INDUCED1 (AZI1), involved in defense priming in systemic plant immunity, was down-regulated in leaves by joint stress and conferred drought susceptibility when overexpressed, potentially as part of abscisic acid-induced repression of pathogen response genes. The results highlight the complex nature of multiple stress responses and confirm the importance of studying plant stress factors in combination.
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- Centre for Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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Gonda I, Lev S, Bar E, Sikron N, Portnoy V, Davidovich-Rikanati R, Burger J, Schaffer AA, Tadmor Y, Giovannonni JJ, Huang M, Fei Z, Katzir N, Fait A, Lewinsohn E. Catabolism of L-methionine in the formation of sulfur and other volatiles in melon (Cucumis melo L.) fruit. Plant J 2013; 74:458-72. [PMID: 23402686 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2012] [Accepted: 01/30/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Sulfur-containing aroma volatiles are important contributors to the distinctive aroma of melon and other fruits. Melon cultivars and accessions differ in the content of sulfur-containing and other volatiles. L-methionine has been postulated to serve as a precursor of these volatiles. Incubation of melon fruit cubes with ¹³C- and ²H-labeled L-methionine revealed two distinct catabolic routes into volatiles. One route apparently involves the action of an L-methionine aminotransferase and preserves the main carbon skeleton of L-methionine. The second route apparently involves the action of an L-methionine-γ-lyase activity, releasing methanethiol, a backbone for formation of thiol-derived aroma volatiles. Exogenous L-methionine also generated non-sulfur volatiles by further metabolism of α-ketobutyrate, a product of L-methionine-γ-lyase activity. α-Ketobutyrate was further metabolized into L-isoleucine and other important melon volatiles, including non-sulfur branched and straight-chain esters. Cell-free extracts derived from ripe melon fruit exhibited L-methionine-γ-lyase enzymatic activity. A melon gene (CmMGL) ectopically expressed in Escherichia coli, was shown to encode a protein possessing L-methionine-γ-lyase enzymatic activity. Expression of CmMGL was relatively low in early stages of melon fruit development, but increased in the flesh of ripe fruits, depending on the cultivar tested. Moreover, the levels of expression of CmMGL in recombinant inbred lines co-segregated with the levels of sulfur-containing aroma volatiles enriched with +1 m/z unit and postulated to be produced via this route. Our results indicate that L-methionine is a precursor of both sulfur and non-sulfur aroma volatiles in melon fruit.
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- Itay Gonda
- Institute of Plant Sciences, Newe Ya'ar Research Center, Agricultural Research Organization, PO Box 1021, Ramat Yishay 30095, Israel
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Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has been well documented in prokaryotes and unicellular eukaryotes, but its role in plants and animals remains elusive. In a recent study, we showed that at least 57 families of nuclear genes in the moss Physcomitrella patens were acquired from prokaryotes, fungi or viruses and that HGT played a critical role in plant colonization of land. In this paper, we categorize all acquired genes based on their putative functions and biological processes, and further address the importance of HGT in plant innovation and evolution.
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- Jipei Yue
- Department of Biology; East Carolina University; Greenville, NC USA
- Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography; Kunming Institute of Botany; Chinese Academy of Science; Yunnan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography; Kunming Institute of Botany; Chinese Academy of Science; Yunnan, China
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- Department of Biology; East Carolina University; Greenville, NC USA
- Correspondence to: Jinling Huang,
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Sharma S, Lin W, Villamor JG, Verslues PE. Divergent low water potential response in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions Landsberg erecta and Shahdara. Plant Cell Environ 2013; 36:994-1008. [PMID: 23130549 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2012] [Revised: 10/14/2012] [Accepted: 10/21/2012] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The Arabidopsis thaliana accession Shahdara (Sha) differs from Landsberg erecta (Ler) and other accessions in its responses to drought and low water potential including lower levels of proline accumulation. However, Sha maintained greater seedling root elongation at low water potential and a higher NADP/NADPH ratio than Ler. Profiling of major amino acids and organic acids found that Sha had reduced levels of all glutamate family amino acids metabolically related to proline, but increased levels of aspartate-derived amino acids (particularly isoleucine), leucine and valine at low water potential. Although Sha is known for its different abiotic stress response, RNA sequencing and co-expression clustering found that Sha differed most from Ler in defence/immune response and reactive oxygen-related gene expression. HVA22B and Osmotin34 were two of the relatively few abiotic stress-associated genes differentially expressed between Ler and Sha. Insensitivity to exogenous glutamine and a different expression profile of glutamate receptors were further factors that may underlie the differing metabolism and low water potential phenotypes of Sha. These data define the unique environmental adaptation and differing metabolism of Sha including differences in defence gene expression, and will facilitate further analysis of Sha natural variation to understand metabolic regulation and abiotic/biotic stress interaction.
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- Sandeep Sharma
- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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