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Thirty MaFLAs vary in their molecular features. MaFLA14/18/27/29 are likely to be involved in banana chilling tolerance by facilitating the cold signaling pathway and enhancing the cell wall biosynthesis.
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Although several studies have identified the molecular functions of individual fasciclin-like arabinogalactan protein (FLA) genes in plant growth and development, little information is available on their involvement in plant tolerance to low-temperature (LT) stress, and the related underlying mechanism is far from clear. In this study, the different expression of FLAs of banana (Musa acuminata) (MaFLAs) in the chilling-sensitive (CS) and chilling-tolerant (CT) banana cultivars under natural LT was investigated. Based on the latest banana genome database, a genome-wide identification of this gene family was done and the molecular features were analyzed. Thirty MaFLAs were distributed in 10 out of 11 chromosomes and these clustered into four major phylogenetic groups based on shared gene structure. Twenty-four MaFLAs contained N-terminal signal, 19 possessed predicted glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI), while 16 had both. Most MaFLAs were downregulated by LT stress. However, MaFLA14/18/29 were upregulated by LT in both cultivars with higher expression level recorded in the CT cultivar. Interestingly, MaFLA27 was significantly upregulated in the CT cultivar, but the opposite occurred for the CS cultivar. MaFLA27 possessed only N-terminal signal, MaFLA18 contained only GPI anchor, MaFLA29 possessed both, while MaFLA14 had neither. Thus, it was suggested that the accumulation of these FLAs in banana under LT could improve banana chilling tolerance through facilitating cold signal pathway and thereafter enhancing biosynthesis of plant cell wall components. The results provide background information of MaFLAs, suggest their involvement in plant chilling tolerance and their potential as candidate genes to be targeted when breeding CT banana.
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Abbreviations
- AG:
-
Arabinogalactan
- AGPs:
-
Arabinogalactan proteins
- CS:
-
Chilling-sensitive
- CT:
-
Chilling-tolerant
- ECM:
-
Extracellular matrix
- FLAs:
-
Fasciclin-like AGPs
- GPI:
-
Glycosylphosphatidylinositol
- HRGPs:
-
Hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins
- IF:
-
Immunofluorescence
- GPI-APs:
-
GPI-anchored proteins
- Ka:
-
Nonsynonymous substitution rate
- Ks:
-
Synonymous substitution rate
- LT:
-
Low temperature
- MEME:
-
Multiple Em for Motif Elucidation
- NJ:
-
Neighbor-joining
- pI:
-
Isoelectric point
- PVDF:
-
Polyvinylidene difluoride
- qPCR:
-
Quantitative real-time PCR
- REC:
-
Relative electrical conductivity
- RLKs:
-
Receptor-like kinases
- TBST:
-
Tris-buffered saline Tween-20
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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFD1000300), the Key Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province for Modern Plant Breeding (2018B020202005), the Guangdong Province Special Fund for Modern Agriculture Industry Technology Innovation Teams, the Earmarked Fund for Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System (CARS-31-04).
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Meng, J., Hu, B., Yi, G. et al. Genome-wide analyses of banana fasciclin-like AGP genes and their differential expression under low-temperature stress in chilling sensitive and tolerant cultivars. Plant Cell Rep 39, 693–708 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-020-02524-0
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