Genome-wide analysis of spatiotemporal gene expression patterns during floral organ development in Brassica rapa.
Mol Genet Genomics
; 294(6): 1403-1420, 2019 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
Flowering is a key agronomic trait that directly influences crop yield and quality and serves as a model system for elucidating the molecular basis that controls successful reproduction, adaptation, and diversification of flowering plants. Adequate knowledge of continuous series of expression data from the floral transition to maturation is lacking in Brassica rapa. To unravel the genome expression associated with the development of early small floral buds (< 2 mm; FB2), early large floral buds (2-4 mm; FB4), stamens (STs) and carpels (CPs), transcriptome profiling was carried out with a Br300K oligo microarray. The results showed that at least 6848 known nonredundant genes (30% of the genes of the Br300K) were differentially expressed during the floral transition from vegetative tissues to maturation. Functional annotation of the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) (fold change ≥ 5) by comparison with a close relative, Arabidopsis thaliana, revealed 6552 unigenes (4579 upregulated; 1973 downregulated), including 131 Brassica-specific and 116 functionally known floral Arabidopsis homologs. Additionally, 1723, 236 and 232 DEGs were preferentially expressed in the tissues of STs, FB2, and CPs. These DEGs also included 43 transcription factors, mainly AP2/ERF-ERF, NAC, MADS-MIKC, C2H2, bHLH, and WRKY members. The differential gene expression during flower development induced dramatic changes in activities related to metabolic processes (23.7%), cellular (22.7%) processes, responses to the stimuli (7.5%) and reproduction (1%). A relatively large number of DEGs were observed in STs and were overrepresented by photosynthesis-related activities. Subsequent analysis via semiquantitative RT-PCR, histological analysis performed with in situ hybridization of BrLTP1 and transgenic reporter lines (BrLTP promoterGUS) of B. rapa ssp. pekinensis supported the spatiotemporal expression patterns. Together, these results suggest that a temporally and spatially regulated process of the selective expression of distinct fractions of the same genome leads to the development of floral organs. Interestingly, most of the differentially expressed floral transcripts were located on chromosomes 3 and 9. This study generated a genome expression atlas of the early floral transition to maturation that represented the flowering regulatory elements of Brassica rapa.
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Brassica rapa
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Flores
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Transcriptoma
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Prognostic_studies
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En
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Mol Genet Genomics
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BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR
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GENETICA
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2019
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Article