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Fruit setting rewires central metabolism via gibberellin cascades

ABSTRACT: Fruit set is the process whereby ovaries develop into fruits after pollination and fertilization. The process is induced by the phytohormone gibberellin (GA) in tomatoes, as determined by the constitutive GA response mutant procera However, the role of GA on the metabolic behavior in fruit-setting ovaries remains largely unknown. This study explored the biochemical mechanisms of fruit set using a network analysis of integrated transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, and enzyme activity data. Our results revealed that fruit set involves the activation of central carbon metabolism, with increased hexoses, hexose phosphates, and downstream metabolites, including intermediates and derivatives of glycolysis, the tricarboxylic acid cycle, and associated organic and amino acids. The network analysis also identified the transcriptional hub gene SlHB15A, that coordinated metabolic activation. Furthermore, a kinetic model of sucrose metabolism predicted that the sucrose cycle had high activity levels in unpollinated ovaries, whereas it was shut down when sugars rapidly accumulated in vacuoles in fruit-setting ovaries, in a time-dependent manner via tonoplastic sugar carriers. Moreover, fruit set at least partly required the activity of fructokinase, which may pull fructose out of the vacuole, and this could feed the downstream pathways. Collectively, our results indicate that GA cascades enhance sink capacities, by up-regulating central metabolic enzyme capacities at both transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels. This leads to increased sucrose uptake and carbon fluxes for the production of the constituents of biomass and energy that are essential for rapid ovary growth during the initiation of fruit set.

INSTRUMENT(S): Diode array detection MS - - reverse phase, Gas Chromatography MS - positive

SUBMITTER: Mikiko Takahashi

PROVIDER: MTBLS1892 | MetaboLights | 2020-09-11

REPOSITORIES: MetaboLights

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Fruit setting rewires central metabolism via gibberellin cascades.

Shinozaki Yoshihito Y Beauvoit Bertrand P BP Takahara Masaru M Hao Shuhei S Ezura Kentaro K Andrieu Marie-Hélène MH Nishida Keiji K Mori Kazuki K Suzuki Yutaka Y Kuhara Satoshi S Enomoto Hirofumi H Kusano Miyako M Fukushima Atsushi A Mori Tetsuya T Kojima Mikiko M Kobayashi Makoto M Sakakibara Hitoshi H Saito Kazuki K Ohtani Yuya Y Bénard Camille C Prodhomme Duyen D Gibon Yves Y Ezura Hiroshi H Ariizumi Tohru T

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200903 38

Fruit set is the process whereby ovaries develop into fruits after pollination and fertilization. The process is induced by the phytohormone gibberellin (GA) in tomatoes, as determined by the constitutive GA response mutant <i>procera</i> However, the role of GA on the metabolic behavior in fruit-setting ovaries remains largely unknown. This study explored the biochemical mechanisms of fruit set using a network analysis of integrated transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, and enzyme activity data. ...[more]

PMID: 32883877

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Fruit setting rewires central metabolism via gibberellin cascades

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Fruit setting rewires central metabolism via gibberellin cascades.

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