Journal
PLANTS-BASEL
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants10030510
Keywords
branching; non-heading Chinese cabbage; virus-induced gene silencing; BcHTT4; FKBP13
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31872106]
- National Key Research and Development Program [2018YFD1000800, 2017YFD0101803]
- National Vegetable Industry Technology System [CARS-23-A-06]
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In this study, we found that the BcHTT4 gene in non-heading Chinese cabbage is involved in branching mechanism and interacts with immunophilin BcFKBP13. Silencing of BcHTT4 promotes axillary bud growth, while overexpression of BcHTT4 decreases branching. The research indicates an important role of these genes in the regulation of branching in non-heading Chinese cabbage.
Branching is speculated to contribute to the plant architecture and crop yield. As a quantitative trait, branching is regulated by multiple genes in non-heading Chinese cabbage (NHCC). Several related candidate genes have been discovered in previous studies on the branching of NHCC, but their specific functions and regulatory mechanisms still need to be verified and explored. In this study, we found that the expression of BcHTT4, the ortholog to HEAT-INDUCED TAS1 TARGET4 (HTT4) in Arabidopsis, was significantly different between 'Suzhouqing' (common type) and 'Maertou' (multiple shoot branching type) in NHCC, which was consistent with the previous transcriptome sequencing results. The silencing of BcHTT4 expression in non-heading Chinese cabbage promotes axillary bud growth at the vegetative stage. When BcHTT4 is overexpressed in Arabidopsis, branching will decrease. In further study, we found that BcHTT4 interacts with immunophilin BcFKBP13 in vivo and in vitro through yeast two-hybrid analysis and bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assays. Moreover, quantitative real-time PCR analysis showed that when the expression of BcHTT4 was silenced in 'Suzhouqing', the expression of BcFKBP13 also decreased significantly. Our findings reveal that BcHTT4 is involved in the branching mechanism and interacts with immunophilin BcFKBP13 in NHCC.
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