Journal
PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 317, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2021.110995
Keywords
Cucumber; Gibberellin; Lateral root; Auxin; Cell wall metabolism
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31501781, 31872950]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province [ZR2014CQ020]
- Shandong Double Tops Program [SYL2017YSTD06]
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Cucumber LR development is regulated by GAs in a concentration-dependent manner, with 50 muM GA3 showing strong effects on root dry weight and root/shoot dry weight ratio. GA3 treatment up-regulates genes involved in auxin and cell wall metabolisms in roots.
Cucumber is an economically important crop cultivated worldwide. Gibberellins (GAs) play important roles in the development of lateral roots (LRs), which are critical for plant stress tolerance and productivity. Therefore, it is of great importance for cucumber production to study the role of GAs in LR development. Here, the results showed that GAs regulated cucumber LR development in a concentration-dependent manner. Treatment with 1, 10, 50 and 100 mu M GA3 significantly increased secondary root length, tertiary root number and length. Of these, 50 mu M GA3 treatment had strong effects on increasing root dry weight and the root/shoot dry weight ratio. Pairwise comparisons identified 417 down-regulated genes enriched for GA metabolism-related processes and 447 up-regulated genes enriched for cell wall metabolism-related processes in GA3-treated roots. A total of 3523 non-redundant DEGs were identified in our RNA-Seq data through pairwise comparisons and linear factorial modeling. Of these, most of the genes involved in auxin and cell wall metabolisms were up-regulated in GA3- treated roots. Our findings not only shed light on LR regulation mediated by GA but also offer an important resource for functional studies of candidate genes putatively involved in the regulation of LR development in cucumber and other crops.
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