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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.693630
Keywords
aluminium stress; interspecific; intraspecific; lentil; transcriptomics; wild
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- Department of Biotechnology (DBT, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi) [BT/PR25565/NER/95/1254/2017]
- Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi [JAN 09/16]
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This study highlights the morpho-physiological and molecular bases of aluminium (Al) tolerance in wild and cultivated lentil species under acidic soil conditions. Transcriptome analysis revealed specific up-regulated genes related to organic acid synthesis, antioxidants, callose synthesis, protein degradation, and phytohormone- and calcium-mediated signalling in tolerant genotypes. Additionally, gene ontology annotation and Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Genes and Genomes pathway scanning provided insights into metabolic pathways associated with Al-stress tolerance in lentil species, which can be applied in future breeding programmes.
Aluminium stress causes plant growth retardation and engenders productivity loss under acidic soil conditions. This study accentuates morpho-physiological and molecular bases of aluminium (Al) tolerance within and between wild (ILWL-15) and cultivated (L-4602 and BM-4) lentil species. Morpho-physiological studies revealed better cyto-morphology of tolerant genotypes over sensitive under Al3+ stress conditions. Mitotic lesions were observed in root cells under these conditions. Transcriptome analysis under Al3+ stress revealed 30,158 specifically up-regulated genes in different comparison groups showing contigs between 15,305 and 18,861 bp. In tolerant genotypes, top up-regulated differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were found to be involved in organic acid synthesis and exudation, production of antioxidants, callose synthesis, protein degradation, and phytohormone- and calcium-mediated signalling under stress conditions. DEGs associated with epigenetic regulation and Al3+ sequestration inside vacuole were specifically upregulated in wild and cultivars, respectively. Based on assembled unigenes, an average of 6,645.7 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) and 14,953.7 high-quality single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were spotted. By quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), 12 selected genes were validated. Gene ontology (GO) annotation revealed a total of 8,757 GO terms in three categories, viz., molecular, biological, and cellular processes. Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Genes and Genomes pathway scanning also revealed another probable pathway pertaining to metacaspase-1,-4, and -9 for programmed cell death under Al-stress conditions. This investigation reveals key inter- and intraspecies metabolic pathways associated with Al-stress tolerance in lentil species that can be utilised in designing future breeding programmes to improve lentil and related species towards Al3+ stress.
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