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HORTICULTURE RESEARCH
卷 8, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1038/s41438-021-00524-z
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFD1000303]
- earmarked fund for the China Agriculture Research System [CARS-27]
In this study, it was demonstrated that MdGH3-2/12 plays an important role in AM symbiosis and drought stress tolerance in apple. Silencing these genes affected AM colonization and the response of plants to drought stress. Transgenic plants showed enhanced sensitivity to drought stress compared to wild type plants.
Drought leads to reductions in plant growth and crop yields. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), which form symbioses with the roots of the most important crop species, alleviate drought stress in plants. In the present work, we identified 14 GH3 genes in apple (Malus domestica) and provided evidence that MdGH3-2 and MdGH3-12 play important roles during AM symbiosis. The expression of both MdGH3-2 and MdGH3-12 was upregulated during mycorrhization, and the silencing of MdGH3-2/12 had a negative impact on AM colonization. MdGH3-2/12 silencing resulted in the downregulation of five genes involved in strigolactone synthesis, and there was a corresponding change in root strigolactone content. Furthermore, we observed lower root dry weights in RNAi lines under AM inoculation conditions. Mycorrhizal transgenic plants showed greater sensitivity to drought stress than WT, as indicated by their higher relative electrolytic leakage and lower relative water contents, osmotic adjustment ability, ROS scavenging ability, photosynthetic capacity, chlorophyll fluorescence values, and abscisic acid contents. Taken together, these data demonstrate that MdGH3-2/12 plays an important role in AM symbiosis and drought stress tolerance in apple.
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