Journal
PLANTS-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants11010090
Keywords
buckwheat; Fagopyrum tataricum; Agrobacterium rhizogenes; auxins; phenolic compounds; root culture
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korean government (Ministry of Science and ICT) [NRF- 2019R1A2C1005171]
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In this study, an efficient protocol for the culture of adventitious and hairy roots of Tartary buckwheat was developed. Different concentrations of auxins were used to induce root formation. The hairy roots showed high expression of phenolic pathway genes and accumulated a greater amount of phenolic compounds compared to other root types.
Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) is an important crop that belongs to the Polygonaceae family, whose roots have received considerable attention due to the presence of compounds with high nutritional and medicinal value. In this study, we aimed to develop an efficient protocol for the culture of adventitious (ARs) and hairy (HRs) roots on a half-strength Schenk and Hildebrandt (SH) medium containing different concentrations of the auxins, alpha-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA), indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), and indole-3-acetic acid (IAA). The highest percentage of root induction (91.67%) was achieved with 0.5 mg/L IAA, whereas the greatest number of roots was found in 1 mg/L IAA. In contrast, 0.1 mg/L IBA returned the longest roots. As expected, HRs were obtained from in vitro leaf explants infected with Agrobacterium rhizogenes R1000. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) analysis of 11 phenolic pathway genes revealed that five genes (FtPAL, FtC3H, FtHQT, FtCHS, and FtANS) were highly expressed in HRs, whereas only four (FtC4H, FtFLS2, FtDFR, and FtANR), and three (Ft4CL, FtCHI, and FtF3H) were recognized in the ARs and seedling roots (SRs), respectively. HPLC analysis of phenolic compounds in different root cultures showed that the majority of the phenolic compounds (both individual and total) were significantly accumulated in the HRs. Principal component analysis (PCA) identified differences among the three root types, whereby HRs were separated from ARs and SRs based on the amount of phenolic compounds present. Analysis of the metabolic pathway revealed that among the identified metabolites, the 3, 2, and 1 pathways were associated with flavonoid, flavone and flavonol, and phenylpropanoid biosynthesis, respectively. Hierarchical clustering analysis and the heat map showed that the different root cultures presented unique metabolites.
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