Project description:Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), a starchy root and tuber crop, is an important source of carbohydrates for the human diet and a valuable resource in many industrial applications. Here, we performed a spatiotemporally distributed proteome analysis using leaves and storage roots of two F1 individuals, H283 (high starch) and L423 (low starch), of similar high yield to underly regulatory networks governing starch accumulation.
Project description:We prepared QTL map of tuber starch content in potato diploid population. Then, we examined expression level of enzyme ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGPase) taking part in starch biosynthesis (marker AGPaseS-a). Based on starch content and AGPaseS-a expression, we constructed four bulks prepared from RNA isolated from tubers of F1 individuals H1 and H2 consisted of high TSC genotypes, bulks L1 and L2 were made of low TSC genotypes. Plants in bulks H1 and L1 strongly expressed AGPaseS-a, whereas those in bulks H2 and L2 exhibited low levels. Then we used RNA-seq technology for selection of genes displaying differential expression between RNA pools. For selected candidate genes we mapped expression QTL (e-QTL) and found eQTL of eAGPaseS-a and ePGRCRURSE5, were close to the corresponding loci of (AGPaseS-a) and the 12S globulin cruciferin gene (PGCRURSE5). We concluded that the cruciferin gene PGRCRURSE5 is a novel candidate involved in the regulation of starch content in potato tubers and suggests that cruciferin may be a novel PTST protein in potato tubers.
Project description:To screen genes related to the development of sweet potato tuberous roots, the high throughput sequencing of different stages of sweet potato tuberous roots was performed. The fibrous roots (FR; roots at 20 dap), developing tuberous roots (DR; roots at 60 dap) and mature tuberous roots (MR; roots at 120 dap) of Ipomoea batatas (L.) Taizhong 6 and MBP3 overexpressed lines were used for transcriptome analysis. Totally, we identified 5488 differentially expressed genes between different stage tuberous roots of Taizhong6 and 14312 differentially expressed genes between the tuberous roots of Taizhong6 and MBP3 overexpressed lines, by calculating the gene FPKM in each sample and conducting differential gene analysis. This study provides a foundation for the mechanism analysis of sweet potato tuberous root development.
Project description:Two complementary protein extraction methodologies coupled with an automated proteomic platform were employed to analyze tissue-specific proteomes and characterize biological and metabolic processes in sweet potato. A total of 74,255 peptides corresponding to 4,321 nonredundant proteins were successfully identified. Data were compared to predicted protein accessions for Ipomea species and mapped on the sweet potato transcriptome and haplotype-resolved genome. A proteogenomics analysis successfully mapped 12,902 peptides against the transcriptome or genome, representing 90.4% of the total 14,275 uniquely identified peptides, predicted 741 new protein-coding genes, and specified 2726 loci where annotations can be further improved. Overall, 39,916 peptides mapped to 3,143 unique proteins in leaves, and 34,339 peptides mapped to 2,928 unique proteins in roots; 32% and 27% unique identified proteins were leaves- and roots-specific, respectively.
Project description:Sweet potato virus disease (SPVD) is one of the most devastating diseases affecting sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas), an important food crop in developing countries. SPVD develops when sweetpotato plants are dually infected with sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV) and sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus (SPCSV). In the current study, global gene expression between SPVD affected plants and virus-tested control plants (VT) were compared in the susceptible ‘Beauregard’ and resistant ‘NASPOT 1’ (Nas) sweetpotato cultivars at 5, 9, 13 and 17 days post inoculation (DPI).
Project description:we performed de novo transcriptome assembly and digital gene expression (DGE) profiling analyses of sweet potato challenged with Fob using Illumina Hiseq technology. A total of 89,944,188 clean reads were generated and were assembled into 101,988 unigenes with an average length of 666bp, 62,605(61.38%) of them were functional annotated in the non-redundant(nr) protein database from NCBI by using BLASTX with a cut-off E-value of 10-5, and COG,GO and KEGG annotations were examined for better understand their functions. Five DGE libraries were constructed from the sweet potato cultivar JS57 (high resistance) and XZH (high susceptible) challenged with pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Fob. The differentially expressed genes including up- and down-regulation in five libraries were identified and calculated based on comparisons of transcriptomes, showing differences in gene expression profiles among the samples. A set of differentially expressed genes involved disease response were identified, including 40 WRKY and seven NAC transcription factors, four resistance genes, 22 pathogenesis-related genes, and six genes involved in SA signal pathway. Our study is the first to provide the transcriptome sequence resource of sweet potato challenged with pathogenic and non-pathogenic Fob and demonstrate its digital expression profiling. We discovered a set of genes involved in disease resistance. These data provides comprehensive sequence resource of sweet potato for genetic and genomic studies and will accelerate the understanding of molecular mechanism of disease resistance.
Project description:In this study, β-carotene concentrations in cassava storage roots were enhanced by co-expression of transgenes for deoxyxylulose-5-phosphate synthase (DXS) and bacterial phytoene synthase (crtB), mediated by the patatin type-1 promoter. Storage roots harvested from field-grown plants accumulated carotenoids to ≤50 μg/g DW, a 15- to 20-fold increase relative to roots from non-transgenic plants. Approximately 85-90% of these carotenoids accumulated as all-trans-β-carotene, the most nutritionally efficacious carotenoid. β-carotene-accumulating storage roots displayed delayed onset of post-harvest physiological deterioration, a major constraint limiting utilization of cassava products. Significant metabolite changes were detected in β-carotene enhanced storage roots. Most significantly, an inverse correlation was observed between β-carotene and dry matter contents, with reductions of 50% to 60% of dry matter content in the highest carotenoid accumulating storage roots of different cultivars. Further analysis confirmed concomitant reduction in starch content, and increased levels of total fatty acids, triacylglycerols, soluble sugars, and abscisic acid. Irish potato engineered to co-express DXS and crtB displayed a similar correlation between β-carotene accumulation, reduced dry matter and starch content, and elevated oil and soluble sugars in tubers. Transcriptome analyses revealed reduced expression of starch biosynthetic genes, ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase genes, in transgenic, carotene-accumulating cassava roots relative to non-transgenic roots. These findings highlight unintended metabolic consequences of provitamin A biofortification of starch-rich organs and point to strategies for redirecting metabolic flux to restore starch production.
Project description:The formation and development of storage roots is an intricate process regulated via a complex transcriptional regulatory network. To significantly advance our understanding of the molecular mechanisms governing storage root initiation and development in sweet potato, we performed a comprehensive analysis of transcriptome dynamics during root development.
2021-10-31 | GSE172378 | GEO
Project description:Transcriptome analysis of anthocyanin content in storage roots of sweet potato population
Project description:<p>Anthocyanins are economically valuable phytochemicals of significant relevance to human health. Industrially extracted from multiple fruit and vegetable sources, anthocyanin yield and profiles can vary between sources and growing conditions. In this study, we focused on three purple-fleshed and one orange-fleshed cultivars of sweet potato, a warm-weather, nutritious crop of substantial interest to growers in northern, cooler latitudes, to determine the yield and diversity of anthocyanins and flavonoids. Acidified ethanol extraction of lyophilized roots yielded ~ 800 mg average anthocyanins/100 g dry weight from all three cultivars. UHPLC-DAD-Orbitrap analysis of sweet potato extracts identified 18 high-confidence, mostly acylated peonidin and cyanidin derivatives contributing to > 90% of the total anthocyanin signal. Further assessment of the untargeted Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry data using deep learning and molecular networking identified over 350 flavonoid peaks with variable distributions in different sweet potato cultivars. These results provide a novel insight into anthocyanin content of purple-fleshed sweet potatoes grown in the northern latitudes, and reveal the large structural diversity of anthocyanins and flavonoids in this popular crop.</p>