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Differential gene expression analysis identifies a group of defensin like peptides from Solanum chacoense ovules with in vitro pollen tube attraction activity
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Differential gene expression analysis identifies a group of defensin like peptides from Solanum chacoense ovules with in vitro pollen tube attraction activity
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Differential gene expression analysis identifies a group of defensin like peptides from Solanum chacoense ovules with in vitro pollen tube attraction activity
2024
Overview
Solanum chacoense is a wild potato species with superior genetic resistance to diseases and pests that has been extensively used for introgression into cultivated potato. One determinant of crossing success between wild and cultivated potato species is the effective ploidy of the parents. However, little is known about whether other, prezygotic level, breeding barriers exist. We hypothesize ovular pollen tube guidance may serve as such a checkpoint. Tests for species-specific pollen tube guidance using semi-in vivo assays suggested a positive correlation between species-specificity and taxonomic distance. RNA-seq of ovules hand dissected from wild type plants at anthesis and two days before anthesis, as well as from a frk1 mutant lacking an embryo sac identified a list of 284 embryo sac-dependent genes highly expressed in mature ovules and poorly expressed in all other samples. Among these are 17 Solanum chacoense cysteine-rich proteins (ScCRPs), considered to be good candidates since CRPs are ovular pollen tube attractants in other species. A group of three cloned and purified ScCRP2 sequences belonging to the DEFL protein family showed moderate levels of in vitro pollen tube attraction activity in functional assays. We conclude that ScCRP2s are good candidates for ovular pollen tube guidance in S. chacoense.
This work introduces key characteristics of pollen tube guidance in Solanum chacoense, identifies candidate attractants through transcriptome subtraction and reports in vitro pollen tube attraction activity for three defensin-like peptides.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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