Scientia Agricultura Sinica ›› 2016, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (3): 491-502.doi: 10.3864/j.issn.0578-1752.2016.03.008

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Effect of RNAi of SmORA1 on Disease Resistance and Tanshinones Secondary Metabolism in Salvia miltiorrhiza

HUA Wen-ping1,2, LIU Wen-chao1, WANG Zhe-zhi1, LI Cui-qin1   

  1. 1Key Laboratory of Medicinal Resources and Natural Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Ministry of Education/National Engineering Laboratory for Resource Developing of Endangered Chinese Crude Drugs in Northwest of China/College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710062
    2Department of Life Sciences and Technology, Shaanxi Xueqian Normal University, Xi’an 710061
  • Received:2015-08-25 Online:2016-02-01 Published:2016-02-01

Abstract:

【Objective】ERF (ethylene responsive factor) are a class of plant-specific transcription factors, which are generally involved in plant stress responses. An ERF gene (named SmORA1) has been screened from medicinal plant Salvia miltiorrhiza, which is highly homologous to CrORCA3 of Catharanthus roseus. The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of SmORA1 on the resistance to disease and on the regulation of tanshinone biosynthesis in S. miltiorrhiza through interference of SmORA1 expression in S. miltiorrhiza by RNAi method.【Method】SmORA1 was cloned and inserted into interference vector, then the constructed vector (pk-ORAi) was transformed into S. miltiorrhiza by Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated method and transgenic lines of SmORA1-RNAi were obtained by antibiotic resistance screening and PCR identification. Using the spectrophotometry or enzyme linked immunosorbent assay, the resistance-related enzymes (phenylalnine ammonialyase (PAL), catalase (CAT) and superoxide dismutase (SOD)) activities and physiological indexes (glutathione (GSH), proline (Pro) and malondialdehyde (MDA)) in SmORA1-RNAi transgenic lines were detected after infection by Rhizoctonia solani. The concentrations of tanshinones including dihydrotanshinone, cryptotanshinone and tanshinone II A in SmORA1-RNAi transgenic lines were detected using HPLC method. The expression levels of genes related to resistance and involved in tanshinone biosynthesis were investigated by real-time qPCR.【Result】A total of 11 positive transgenic lines were got after antibiotics and PCR screening, among of which, three lines (RNAi-11, RNAi-18, RNAi-22) with significantly down-regulated expression levels of SmORA1 were obtained after antibiotics and real-time qPCR screening, interference efficiency achieved at 80%. Afterinfection with R. solani, the disease indexes of SmORA1-RNAi lines were significantly higher than those of wild type (WT) and empty vector (VK). The contents of MDA in SmORA1-RNAi lines were also significantly higher than those of control lines, which indicated that the anti-aging ability of transgenic lines was significantly decreased. The activities of SOD, CAT and PAL in SmORA1-RNAi lines were significantly lower than those of the control. The contents of Pro and GSH were also dramatically decreased in SmORA1-RNAi lines. Moreover, the expression levels of SmPDF1.2, SmSTH-2 and SmPR-10 in SmORA1-RNAi lines were down-regulated compared with the control lines. These results implied that SmORA1 play important roles in plant resistance. Furthermore, the expression of SmHMGR1, SmHMGR2, SmGPPS, SmGGPPS1 and SmGGPPS3,encoding key enzymes involved tanshinone biosynthesis, were down-regulated in SmORA1-RNAi lines. Meanwhile, the contents of tanshinone ⅡA and cryptotanshinone were also reduced in SmORA1-RNAi lines compared with the control lines. So it was speculated that SmORA1 regulated tanshinone biosynthesis throught the regulation of the expression of SmHMGR1, SmHMGR2, SmGPPS, SmGGPPS1 and SmGGPPS3. 【Conclusion】SmORA1 is involved in the resistance response and closely related to the regulation of tanshinone biosynthesis in S. miltiorrhiza.

Key words: Salvia miltiorrhiza, ethylene responsive factor (ERF), disease resistance, tanshinone

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