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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.716772
Keywords
APRR2; chlorophyll; frameshift mutation; peel color; wax gourd
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [31960593]
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This study investigated the genetic inheritance patterns associated with green and white skin in wax gourd using F-2 genetic segregation populations. The candidate gene Bch05G003950 (BhAPRR2) encoding APRR2 was identified as a key regulator of peel color in wax gourd. Further analysis revealed significant differences in chlorophyll content and BhAPRR2 expression between green and white-skinned wax gourd.
Peel color is an important factor affecting commodity quality in vegetables; however, the genes controlling this trait remain unclear in wax gourd. Here, we used two F-2 genetic segregation populations to explore the inheritance patterns and to clone the genes associated with green and white skin in wax gourd. The F-2 and BC1 trait segregation ratios were 3:1 and 1:1, respectively, and the trait was controlled by nuclear genes. Bulked segregant analysis of both F-2 plants revealed peaks on Chr5 exceeding the confidence interval. Additionally, 6,244 F-2 plants were used to compress the candidate interval into a region of 179 Kb; one candidate gene, Bch05G003950 (BhAPRR2), encoding two-component response regulator-like protein Arabidopsis pseudo-response regulator2 (APRR2), which is involved in the regulation of peel color, was present in this interval. Two bases (GA) present in the coding sequence of BhAPRR2 in green-skinned wax gourd were absent from white-skinned wax gourd. The latter contained a frameshift mutation, a premature stop codon, and lacked 335 residues required for the protein functional region. The chlorophyll content and BhAPRR2 expression were significantly higher in green-skinned than in white-skinned wax gourd. Thus, BhAPRR2 may regulate the peel color of wax gourd. This study provides a theoretical foundation for further studies of the mechanism of gene regulation for the fruit peel color of wax gourd.
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