Journal
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 17, Issue 7, Pages 1394-1407Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13064
Keywords
Poncirus trifoliata; autotetrploid; drought tolerance; RNA-seq; tetraploid; ROS; sugar metabolism
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31572100, 31521092, 31772273]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFD1000300]
- Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Innovative Group [2017CFA018]
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Tetraploids have been reported to exhibit increased stress tolerance, but the underlying molecular and physiological mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this study, autotetraploid plants were identified by screening natural seedlings of trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata). The tetraploids exhibited different morphology and displayed significantly enhanced drought and dehydration tolerance in comparison with the diploid progenitor. Transcriptome analysis indicated that a number of stress-responsive genes and pathways were differentially influenced and enriched in the tetraploids, in particular those coding for enzymes related to antioxidant process and sugar metabolism. Transcript levels and activities of antioxidant enzymes (peroxidase and superoxide dismutase) and sucrose-hydrolysing enzyme (vacuolar invertase) were increased in the tetraploids upon exposure to the drought, concomitant with greater levels of glucose but lower level of reactive oxygen species (ROS). These data indicate that the tetraploids might undergo extensive transcriptome reprogramming of genes involved in ROS scavenging and sugar metabolism, which contributes, synergistically or independently, to the enhanced stress tolerance of the tetraploid. Our results reveal that the tetraploids take priority over the diploid for stress tolerance by maintaining a more robust system of ROS detoxification and osmotic adjustment via elevating antioxidant capacity and sugar accumulation in comparison with the diploid counterpart.
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