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UV-B and UV-C radiation trigger both common and distinctive signal perceptions and transmissions in Pinus tabuliformis Carr.

Journal

TREE PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 8, Pages 1587-1600

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpac021

Keywords

Chinese red pine; physiological reprogramming; time-ordered gene coexpression network; UV-B radiation; UV-C radiation

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Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [32171816]
  2. Project of Construction of World Class Universities in Beijing Forestry University [2019XKJS0308]
  3. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2018BLCB08]

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This study evaluated the physiological and transcriptomic responses of Pinus tabuliformis Carr. to high-irradiance UV-B and UV-C waves, revealing both communalities and differences in the plant's responses to the two types of UV radiation. The research found that both UV-B and UV-C significantly inhibited photosynthesis while enhancing antioxidant capacity, flavonoid production, and stress resistance pathways in pine, indicating a shift towards enhanced defensive metabolism. The study isolated distinct subnetworks related to photoreceptor-mediated signal transduction, Fv/Fm regulation, and flavonoid biosynthesis in response to UV-B and UV-C radiation.
In plants, ultraviolet (UV)-light is an important driver for growth and natural distribution, and is also a valuable tool for manipulating productivity as well as biotic interactions. Understanding of plant responses to different UV radiation is sparse, especially from a systems biology perspective and particularly for conifers. Here, we evaluated the physiological and transcriptomic responses to the short-term application of high-irradiance UV-B and UV-C waves on Pinus tabuliformis Carr., a major conifer in Northern China. By undertaking time-ordered gene coexpression network analyses and network comparisons incorporating physiological traits and gene expression variation, we uncovered communalities but also differences in P. tabuliformis responses to UV-B and UV-C. Both types of spectral bands caused a significant inhibition of photosynthesis, and conversely, the improvement of antioxidant capacity, flavonoid production and signaling pathways related to stress resistance, indicating a clear switch from predominantly primary metabolism to enhanced defensive metabolism in pine. We isolated distinct subnetworks for photoreceptor-mediated signal transduction, maximum quantum efficiency of photosystem II (Fv/Fm) regulation and flavonoid biosynthesis in response to UV-B and UV-C radiation. From these subnetworks, we further identified phototropins as potentially important elements in both UV-B and UV-C signaling and, for the first time, suggesting peptide hormones to be involved in promoting flavonoid biosynthesis against UV-B, while these hormones seem not to be implicated in the defense against UV-C exposure. The present study employed an effective strategy for disentangling the complex physiological and genetic regulatory mechanisms in a nonmodel plant species, and thus, provides a suitable reference for future functional evaluations and artificial UV-light mediated growing strategies in plant production.

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