Journal
AUTOPHAGY
Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 457-458Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2021.2003041
Keywords
Autophagy; dark-induced senescence; metabolic shift; mGWAS; plants
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFD1000200]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [FE 552/12-1]
- PlantaSYST project by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme SGA-CSA [664621, 739582, 664620]
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In plants, dark-induced senescence leads to metabolic and autophagic shifts for nutrient recycling and survival, which is tightly regulated by genetic factors. A genome-wide association approach can be used to analyze metabolic transitions and autophagy processes.
Macroautophagy/autophagy is a conserved mechanism responsible for the degradation of unnecessary or dysfunctional components and recycling of the nutrients they contain in order to promote cellular or organismal longevity. In plants photosynthesis is massively impaired under extended darkness stress and the transition to heterotrophic metabolism results in carbon and nitrogen starvation which induces metabolic and autophagic shifts to recycle nutrients for plant survival. The majority of research concerning dark-induced senescence focuses on single genes or pathways, and the global characterization of primary and lipid metabolites and autophagy remains limited. To address these aspects we recently developed a time-resolved genome-wide association-based approach to analyze these shifts following 0 d, 3 d and 6 d of darkness. Six patterns of metabolic shifts and 215 associations with enzymes, transcriptional regulators and autophagy genes (such as AT2G31260/ATG9, AT4G16520/ATG8F, AT5G45900/ATG7 and AT2G05630/ATG8D) were identified. Furthermore detailed characterization of candidate genes further demonstrated that the metabolic and autophagic shifts in response to dark-induced senescence is under tightly coordinated genetic regulation.
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