Transcriptome dynamic landscape underlying the improvement of maize lodging resistance under coronatine treatment

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Title: Transcriptome dynamic landscape underlying the improvement of maize lodging resistance under coronatine treatment
Authors: Zhaobin Ren, Xing Wang, Qun Tao, Qing Guo, Yuyi Zhou, Fei Yi, Guanmin Huang, Yanxia Li, Mingcai Zhang, Zhaohu Li, Liusheng Duan
Source: BMC Plant Biology, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-18 (2021)
Publisher Information: BMC, 2021.
Publication Year: 2021
Collection: LCC:Botany
Subject Terms: Maize lodging, Coronatine, Plant height, Internode development, RNA-seq, Botany, QK1-989
More Details: Abstract Background Lodging is one of the important factors causing maize yield. Plant height is an important factor in determining plant architecture in maize (Zea mays L.), which is closely related to lodging resistance under high planting density. Coronatine (COR), which is a phytotoxin and produced by the pathogen Pseudomonas syringae, is a functional and structural analogue of jasmonic acid (JA). Results In this study, we found COR, as a new plant growth regulator, could effectively reduce plant height and ear height of both hybrids (ZD958 and XY335) and inbred (B73) maize by inhibiting internode growth during elongation, thus improve maize lodging resistance. To study gene expression changes in internode after COR treatment, we collected spatio-temporal transcriptome of inbred B73 internode under normal condition and COR treatment, including the three different regions of internode (fixed, meristem and elongation regions) at three different developmental stages. The gene expression levels of the three regions at normal condition were described and then compared with that upon COR treatment. In total, 8605 COR-responsive genes (COR-RGs) were found, consist of 802 genes specifically expressed in internode. For these COR-RGs, 614, 870, 2123 of which showed expression changes in only fixed, meristem and elongation region, respectively. Both the number and function were significantly changed for COR-RGs identified in different regions, indicating genes with different functions were regulated at the three regions. Besides, we found more than 80% genes of gibberellin and jasmonic acid were changed under COR treatment. Conclusions These data provide a gene expression profiling in different regions of internode development and molecular mechanism of COR affecting internode elongation. A putative schematic of the internode response to COR treatment is proposed which shows the basic process of COR affecting internode elongation. This research provides a useful resource for studying maize internode development and improves our understanding of the COR regulation mechanism based on plant height.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 1471-2229
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1471-2229
DOI: 10.1186/s12870-021-02962-2
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/c491ed2695874474b5993b5a1e1d5148
Accession Number: edsdoj.491ed2695874474b5993b5a1e1d5148
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ISSN:14712229
DOI:10.1186/s12870-021-02962-2
Published in:BMC Plant Biology
Language:English