1. Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Differential Gene Expression in Garlic Aerial Bulbs in Response to Gibberellin Application
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Shiqi Liu, Xiudong Sun, Yuhui Dong, Yujiao Hou, Yaping Zhao, and Fang Hongcheng
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fungi ,food and beverages ,Ribosome biogenesis ,Plant Science ,Biology ,Cell biology ,Transcriptome ,Gene expression ,Dormancy ,Gibberellin ,KEGG ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,Gene ,Transcription factor - Abstract
The long-followed practice of using garlic cloves for garlic asexual reproduction has resulted in virus accumulation and genetic depression. Aerial bulbs, the preferred material for virus-free garlic seedling cultivation in vitro, undergo dormancy, but gibberellin can quickly break this state. In this study, exogenous GA3 was applied to dormant aerial bulbs and transcriptome sequencing was then performed using control and gibberellin-treated aerial bulbs. Genes differentially expressed in response to the gibberellin treatment were analyzed and screened and their relationship to GA3-induced dormancy break of aerial bulbs was explored. According to our results, exogenous GA3 was able to effectively break aerial bulb dormancy. Transcriptome sequencing uncovered 4931 and 74,636 genes that were respectively up- and down-regulated in response to gibberellin treatment. 37,957 differentially expressed genes were successfully assigned to KEGG pathways, among which the most DEGs were annotated in metabolism pathway (23,245 genes, accounting for 61.24%), followed by the genetic information processing pathway (9235 genes, accounting for 24.33%). More DEGs were enriched in spliceosome, ribosome, ribosome biogenesis in eukaryotes, and ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis pathways and the enrichment results were significant. In addition, carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism pathways are active. The significant DEGs related to calcium signaling, hormonal signaling, and transcription factors were screened out. Among them, the expression of DEGs related to hormonal signaling was consistent with the change of endogenous hormone content in aerial bulbs. Finally, the outcome of a qRT-PCR analysis was consistent with our transcriptome sequencing results, thus indicating that the latter was reliable.
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- 2021