Guanglian Liao1,2, Lu Chen2,3, Yanqun He2, Xishi Li2, Zhengxin Lv2, Shuyao Yi2, Min Zhong2, Chunhui Huang2, Dongfeng Jia2, Xueyan Qu2, Xiaobiao Xu4,5. 1. College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University/Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Silviculture, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330045, PR China. 2. College of Agronomy, Jiangxi Agricultural University/Kiwifruit institute of Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330045, PR China. 3. Jinggangshan Institute of Biotechnology, Jinggangshan Branch of Jiangxi Academy of Sciences, Ji'an, Jiangxi, 343,016, PR China. 4. College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University/Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Silviculture, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330045, PR China. xiaobiaoxu@hotmail.com. 5. College of Agronomy, Jiangxi Agricultural University/Kiwifruit institute of Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330045, PR China. xiaobiaoxu@hotmail.com.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Actinidia eriantha is a precious material to study the metabolism and regulation of ascorbic acid (AsA) because of its high AsA content. Although the pathway of AsA biosynthesis in kiwifruit has been identified, the mechanism of AsA metabolism and regulation is still unclear. The purpose of this experiment is to reveal the AsA metabolic characteristics of A. eriantha 'Ganmi 6' from the molecular level, and lay a theoretical foundation for the research on the genetic improvement of kiwifruit quality. RESULTS: We found that AsA reached the accumulation peak at S7 (110 DAF) during the process of fruit growth and development. The activity of GalDH, GalLDH, MDHAR and DHAR in fruit was similar to AsA accumulation trend, and both of them were significantly positively correlated with AsA content. It was speculated that GalDH and GalLDH were key enzymes in AsA biosynthesis, while MDHAR and DHAR were key enzymes in AsA regeneration cycle, which together regulated AsA accumulation in fruit. Also, we identified 98,656 unigenes with an average length of 932 bp from the transcriptome libraries using RNA-seq technology after data assembly. There were 50,184 (50.87%) unigenes annotations in four databases. Two thousand nine hundred forty-nine unigenes were enriched into the biosynthesis pathway of secondary metabolites, among which 133 unigenes involved in the AsA and aldehyde metabolism pathways, and 23 candidate genes related to AsA biosynthesis, cycling and degradation were screened out. CONCLUSIONS: Considering gene expression levels and changes of physiological traits and related enzyme activity, we concluded that the accumulation of AsA depends mainly on the L-galactose pathway, and the D-galacturonic acid pathway and AsA recycling pathway as the secondary pathways, which co-maintain the high AsA content in fruit of A. eriantha.
BACKGROUND:Actinidia eriantha is a precious material to study the metabolism and regulation of ascorbic acid (AsA) because of its high AsA content. Although the pathway of AsA biosynthesis in kiwifruit has been identified, the mechanism of AsA metabolism and regulation is still unclear. The purpose of this experiment is to reveal the AsA metabolic characteristics of A. eriantha 'Ganmi 6' from the molecular level, and lay a theoretical foundation for the research on the genetic improvement of kiwifruit quality. RESULTS: We found that AsA reached the accumulation peak at S7 (110 DAF) during the process of fruit growth and development. The activity of GalDH, GalLDH, MDHAR and DHAR in fruit was similar to AsA accumulation trend, and both of them were significantly positively correlated with AsA content. It was speculated that GalDH and GalLDH were key enzymes in AsA biosynthesis, while MDHAR and DHAR were key enzymes in AsA regeneration cycle, which together regulated AsA accumulation in fruit. Also, we identified 98,656 unigenes with an average length of 932 bp from the transcriptome libraries using RNA-seq technology after data assembly. There were 50,184 (50.87%) unigenes annotations in four databases. Two thousand nine hundred forty-nine unigenes were enriched into the biosynthesis pathway of secondary metabolites, among which 133 unigenes involved in the AsA and aldehyde metabolism pathways, and 23 candidate genes related to AsA biosynthesis, cycling and degradation were screened out. CONCLUSIONS: Considering gene expression levels and changes of physiological traits and related enzyme activity, we concluded that the accumulation of AsA depends mainly on the L-galactose pathway, and the D-galacturonic acid pathway and AsA recycling pathway as the secondary pathways, which co-maintain the high AsA content in fruit of A. eriantha.
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