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JOURNAL OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATION
Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages 182-190Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00344-012-9289-1
Keywords
Strawberry fruit; RNAi; Gene silencing; F3H; Anthocyanin biosynthesis; Flavanone 3-hydroxylase
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31071765]
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Anthocyanin biosynthesis requires the activities of several enzymes in vivo. Flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H) converts flavanone into dihydroflavanol at an early step in the anthocyanin biosynthesis pathway. In this study we constructed an RNAi gene-silencing vector that encodes a hairpin F3H RNA. Agrobacterium strain GV3101 harboring the F3H RNAi vector was injected into strawberry fruits which were still attached to the plants 14 days after pollination. The phenotype was observed 10 days postinjection, and fruits were tested by RT-PCR and northern blot assays. The results showed that the F3H gene was downregulated by approximately 70 % in the agroinfiltrated fruits compared with the control. HPLC-MS analysis showed that anthocyanin content was greatly reduced, flavonol was also decreased, and the levels of p-coumaroyl glucoside and p-coumaroyl-1-acetate were markedly increased. We conclude that the precursors were shunted to the phenylpropanoid pathway, and that F3H is one of the key enzymes required for the biosynthesis of flavonoids in strawberry fruit. According to our results, reducing gene function via RNA interference is a rapid, simple, and effective way to identify gene function in strawberry fruit.
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