Comparative Transcriptome Analyses of a Late-maturing Mandarin Mutant and Its Original Cultivar Reveals Gene Expression Profiling Associated with Citrus Fruit Maturation

Overview

Journal PeerJ

Specialties Biology
Environmental Health
General Medicine

Date 2017 May 24

PMID 28533983

Citations 6

Authors

Lu Wang

Qingzhu Hua

Yuewen Ma

Guibing Hu

Yonghua Qin

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Abstract

Characteristics of late maturity in fruit are good agronomic traits for extending the harvest period and marketing time. However, underlying molecular basis of the late-maturing mechanism in fruit is largely unknown. In this study, RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) technology was used to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) related to late-maturing characteristics from a late-maturing mutant 'Huawan Wuzishatangju' (HWWZSTJ) ( Blanco) and its original line 'Wuzishatangju' (WZSTJ). A total of approximately 17.0 Gb and 84.2 M paried-end reads were obtained. DEGs were significantly enriched in the pathway of photosynthesis, phenylpropanoid biosynthesis, carotenoid biosynthesis, chlorophyll and abscisic acid (ABA) metabolism. Thirteen candidate transcripts related to chlorophyll metabolism, carotenoid biosynthesis and ABA metabolism were analyzed using real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) at all fruit maturing stages of HWWZSTJ and WZSTJ. Chlorophyllase () and divinyl reductase () from chlorophyll metabolism, phytoene synthase () and capsanthin/capsorubin synthase () from carotenoid biosynthesis, and abscisic acid 8'-hydroxylase () and 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase () from ABA metabolism were cloned and analyzed. The expression pattern of indicated its role in the late-maturing characteristics of HWWZSTJ. There were 270 consecutive bases missing in HWWZSTJ in comparison with full-length sequences of cDNA from WZSTJ. Those results suggested that might play an important role in the late maturity of HWWZSTJ. This study provides new information on complex process that results in the late maturity of fruit at the transcriptional level.

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