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Mapping the gene of a maize leaf senescence mutant and understanding the senescence pathways by expression analysis

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Narrowing down to a single putative target gene behind a leaf senescence mutant and constructing the regulation network by proteomic method.

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Leaf senescence mutant is an important resource for exploring molecular mechanism of aging. To dig for potential modulation networks during maize leaf aging process, we delimited the gene responsible for a premature leaf senescence mutant els5 to a 1.1 Mb interval in the B73 reference genome using a BC1F1 population with 40,000 plants, and analyzed the leaf proteomics of the mutant and its near-isogenic wild type line. A total of 1355 differentially accumulated proteins (DAP) were mainly enriched in regulation pathways such as “photosynthesis”, “ribosome”, and “porphyrin and chlorophyll metabolism” by the KEGG pathway analysis. The interaction networks constructed by incorporation of transcriptome data showed that ZmELS5 likely repaired several key factors in the photosynthesis system. The putative candidate proteins for els5 were proposed based on DAPs in the fined QTL mapping interval. These results provide fundamental basis for cloning and functional research of the els5 gene, and new insights into the molecular mechanism of leaf senescence in maize.

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The raw sequence data reported in this paper have been deposited in the Genome Sequence Archive in National Genomics Data Center, China National Center for Bioinformation/Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, under accession number OMIX002938 that are publicly accessible at https://bigd.big.ac.cn/omix.

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This study was funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2020M682295), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFF100302), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32272165).

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Conceptualization, YX, ZF, and JT; data curation, YL, XX, ML, WL; formal analysis, YG, XS, and YC; funding acquisition, YX, XZ, and ZF; investigation, YG, YC, YL, and HL; methodology, YG, XS, and XX; project administration, YX and ZF; resources, WL, XZ, and JT; writing—original draft, YG and YX; writing—review and editing, YX and ZF. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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Gao, Y., Shi, X., Chang, Y. et al. Mapping the gene of a maize leaf senescence mutant and understanding the senescence pathways by expression analysis. Plant Cell Rep 42, 1651–1663 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-023-03051-4

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