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Genome-Wide Identification, Characterization, and Expression Profile Analysis of CONSTANS-like Genes in Woodland Strawberry (Fragaria vesca)

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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
卷 13, 期 -, 页码 -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.931721

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CONSTANS-like; woodland strawberry; flowering; expression profiles; photoperiod

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [31872073]
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province [2014027015, 20180550431]

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This study identified CO-like genes (FveCOs) in woodland strawberry and analyzed their gene structure, evolution rate, and expression patterns. The results showed that the evolution rate of FveCOs is controlled by purification selection factors and they play important roles in photoperiodic flowering regulation. FveCO3 and FveCO5 showed opposite trends in expression and flowering time variation.
CONSTANS-like (CO-like) gene is one of the most important regulators in the flowering process of the plant, playing a core role in the photoperiodic flowering induction pathway. In this study, we identified 10 distinct CO-like genes (FveCOs) in woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca). They were classified into three groups with specific gene structure characteristics or protein domains in each group. The effect of selection pressure on the FveCOs in the woodland strawberry was tested by Ka/Ks, and it was shown that the evolution rate of FveCOs was controlled by purification selection factors. Intraspecific synteny analysis of woodland strawberry FveCOs showed that at least one duplication event existed in the gene family members. Collinearity analysis of woodland strawberry genome with genomes of Arabidopsis, rice (Otyza sativa), and apple (Malus x domestica) showed that CO-like genes of F. vesca and Malus x domestica owned higher similarity for their similar genomes compared with those of other two species. The FveCOs showed different tissue-specific expression patterns. Moreover, real-time quantitative PCR results revealed that the expressions of the most FveCOs followed a 24-h rhythm oscillation under both long-day (LD) and short-day (SD) conditions. Further expression analysis showed that the individual expression changing profile of FveCO3 and FveCO5 was opposite to each other under both LD and SD conditions. Moreover, the expression of FveCO3 and FveCO5 was both negatively correlated with the flowering time variation of the woodland strawberry grown under LD and SD conditions, indicating their potential vital roles in the photoperiodic flowering regulation. Further protein interaction network analysis also showed that most of the candidate interaction proteins of FveCO3 and FveCO5 were predicted to be the flowering regulators. Finally, LUC assay indicated that both FveCO3 and FveCO5 could bind to the promoter of FveFT1, the key regulator of flowering regulation in the woodland strawberry, and thus activate its expression. Taken together, this study laid a foundation for understanding the exact roles of FveCOs in the reproductive development regulation of the woodland strawberry, especially in the photoperiodic flowering process.

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