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Transcriptome profile of Brassica napus seed development

ABSTRACT: We profiled the gene regulatory landscape of Brassica napus reproductive development using RNA sequencing. Comparative analysis of this nascent allotetraploid across the plant lifecycle revealed the contribution of each subgenome to plant reproduction. Global mRNA profiling across reproductive development revealed lower accumulation of C subgenome transcripts relative to the A subgenome. Subgenome-specific transcriptional networks identified distinct transcription factor families enriched in each of the A and C subgenome in early seed development. Analysis of a tissue specific transcriptome of early seed development revealed transcription factors predicted to be regulators encoded by the A subgenome are expressed primarily in the seed coat whereas regulators encoded by the C subgenome were expressed primarily in the embryo. Whole genome transcription factor networks identified BZIP11 as an essential regulator of early B. napus seed development. Knockdown of BZIP11 using RNA interference resulted in knockdown of predicted target genes, and a reproductive-lethal phenotype. Our data indicate that subgenome bias are characteristic features of the B. napus seed throughout its development, and that such bias might not be universal across the embryo, endosperm, and seed coat of the developing seed. We also find that examining transcriptional networks spanning both the A and C genomes of the whole B. napus seed can identify valuable targets for seed development research. We suggest that-omics level approaches to studying gene regulation in B. napus can benefit from both broad and high-resolution analyses.

ORGANISM(S): Brassica napus

PROVIDER: GSE144771 | GEO | 2021/08/31

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Seed coat colour is determined by the type of pigment deposited in the seed coat cells. It is related to important agronomic traits of seeds, such as seed dormancy, longevity, oil content, protein content and fibre content. In Brassica napus, inheritance of seed coat colour is related to maternal effects and pollen effects (xenia effects). In this research, we isolated a mutation of yellow seeded B. napus controlled by a single Mendelian locus with pollen effect. Microcopy of transverse sections of the mature seed shows pigment is deposited only in the epidermal cells, the first cell layer of seed coat. By Illumina Hiseq 2000 sequencing technology, a total of 12 G clean data, 116x coverage of coding sequences of B. napus, was achieved from 26-day old brown and yellow seeds. It was assembled into 172,238 independent transcripts and 55,637 unigenes by Trinity. A total of 150 orthologous genes of Arabidopsis transparent testa (TT) genes were mapped in silico to 19 chromosomes of B. napus. Only 49 of the TT orthologous genes are transcripted in seeds. However transcription of all the orthologs was independent of the embryonal control of seed coat colour. Of all the Trinity-assembled unigenes, only 55 genes were found to be differentially expressed between the brown seeds and yellow mutant. Among them 50 were up-regulated and 5 were down-regulated in the yellow seeds as compared to the brown counterpart. By KEGG classification, 14 metabolic pathways were enriched significantly. Of these, 5 pathways: phenylpropanoid biosynthesis, cyanoamino acid metabolism, plant hormone signal transduction, metabolic pathways and biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, were related with seed coat pigmentation. Free amino acid quantification showed that Ala and Phe were produced at higher levels in the embryo of yellow seeds as compared to brown seeds. This increase was not observed in the seed coat. Moreover, the excess amount of free Ala was exactly twice that of Phe in the 26-day embryo of yellow seeds. Pigment indispensable substrate chalcone is synthesized from two molecules of Ala and one molecule of Phe. The correlation between accumulation of Ala and Phe and disappearance of pigment in the yellow seeded mutant indicate that embryonal control of seed coat colour is related with Phe and Ala metabolism in the embryo of B. napus.

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Transcriptome profile of Brassica napus seed development

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