Journal Article

The mechanism of abscisic acid regulation of wild Fragaria species in response to cold stress

Liu, Jie, Shen, Jincheng, Li, Junmin, Yuan, Yongge, Chen, Luxi, Ma, Junxia, Li, Xin

2022

Overview

Background Abiotic stresses have increasingly serious effects on the growth and yield of crops. Cold stress, in particular, is an increasing problem. In this study, Fragaria daltoniana and F. vesca were determined to be cold-resistant and cold-sensitive species, respectively. Integrated transcriptomics and metabolomics methods were used to analyze the regulatory mechanism of abscisic acid (ABA) in F. daltoniana and F. vesca in their response to low temperature stress. Results F. daltoniana and F. vesca increased their ABA content under low temperature stress by upregulating the expression of the ABA biosynthetic pathway gene NCED and downregulating the expression of the ABA degradative gene CYP707A . Both types of regulation increased the accumulation of glucose and fructose, resulting in a reduction of damage under low temperature stress. Twelve transcription factors were found to be involved in the ABA regulatory pathway. The strong cold tolerance of F. daltoniana could be owing to its higher levels of ABA that accumulated compared with those in F. vesca under low temperature stress. In addition, the gene ABF2 , which is related to the transduction of glucose signaling, was significantly upregulated in the leaves of F. daltoniana , while it was downregulated in the leaves of F. vesca under low temperature stress. This could contribute to the higher levels of glucose signal transduction in F. daltoniana . Thus, this could explain the higher peroxidase activity and lower damage to cell membranes in the leaves of F. daltoniana compared with F. vesca under low temperature stress, which endows the former with stronger cold tolerance. Conclusions Under low temperature stress, the differences in the accumulation of ABA and the expression trends of ABF2 and ABF4 in different species of wild strawberries may be the primary reason for their differences in cold tolerance. Our results provide an important empirical reference and technical support for breeding resistant cultivated strawberry plants.

• Publisher: BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V,BMC
• Subject: Abscisic acid / Abscisic Acid - metabolism / Acclimatization (Plants) / Amino acids / Analysis / Animal Genetics and Genomics / Biomedical and Life Sciences / Biosynthesis / Cell membranes / Cellular signal transduction / Cold / Cold Temperature / Cold tolerance / Cold-Shock Response / Crop yield / Crop yields / Crops / Cultivation / Damage accumulation / Empirical analysis / Environmental aspects / Enzymes / Forecasts and trends / Fragaria / Fragaria - genetics / Fragaria - metabolism / Fragaria daltoniana / Fragaria vesca / Fructose / Fruit cultivation / Gene Expression Regulation, Plant / Genes / Genetic aspects / Genomics / Glucose / Glucose - metabolism / Growth / Kinases / Leaves / Life Sciences / Low temperature / Low temperature resistance / Low temperature stress / Metabolism / Metabolites / Metabolomics / Methods / Microarrays / Microbial Genetics and Genomics / Peroxidase / Peroxidases - metabolism / Physiology / Plant Breeding / Plant Genetics and Genomics / Plant Proteins - genetics / Plant Proteins - metabolism / Proteomics / Regulation / Regulatory mechanisms (biology) / Roles / Signal transduction / Strawberries / Stress / Technical services / Temperature tolerance / Transcription factors / Transcription Factors - metabolism / Transcriptomics / Wild strawberry