Journal of Integrative Agriculture ›› 2023, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (11): 3312-3320.DOI: 10.1016/j.jia.2023.03.003

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ACS11一个新突变类型导致黄瓜只开雄花

  

  • 收稿日期:2022-09-30 接受日期:2022-12-29 出版日期:2023-11-20 发布日期:2023-11-08

A novel mutation in ACS11 leads to androecy in cucumber

WANG Jie1, 2*, LI Shuai2, 4*, CHEN Chen3*, ZHANG Qi-qi1, 2, ZHANG Hui-min1, CUI Qing-zhi3, 6, CAI Guang-hua2, 4, ZHANG Xiao-peng4, CHAI Sen1, WAN Li2, YANG Xue-yong2, ZHANG Zhong-hua1HUANG San-wen4, 5, CHEN Hui-ming3#, SUN Jin-jing2#   

  1. 1 College of Horticulture, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, P.R.China
    2 State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, P.R.China
    3 Hunan Vegetable Research Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha 410125, P.R.China
    4 Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518124, P.R.China
    5 Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Sciences, Haikou 571101, P.R.China 
    6 College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, P.R.China
  • Received:2022-09-30 Accepted:2022-12-29 Online:2023-11-20 Published:2023-11-08
  • About author:#Correspondence SUN Jin-jing, E-mail: sunjinjing@caas.cn; CHEN Hui-ming, E-mail: huiminghm@163.com * These authors contributed equally to this study.
  • Supported by:

    This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFD1000803), National Natural Science Foundation of China (31701933 and 32002036) and the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (ZR2020QC157). 

摘要:

植物的单性花可以有效促进异交,研究单性花的形成和调控机制对于理解植物性别决定过程有重要意义,也为研究者和农业生产者利用杂种优势提供便利。在黄瓜杂交制种过程中,只开花的株系种植于只开雄花的株系周围,可以显著降低制种成本。筛选更多不同基因背景的只开雄花的材料,将增加可用于育种的种质资源。我基于前期构建的EMS诱变自交系材料406”的突变体库,发现了一个新的只开雄花的突变体遗传分析、全基因组重测序和分子标记辅助验证表明,ACS11基因上发生异义突变301位丝氨酸(Ser)变为苯丙氨酸(Phe)导致全雄株的产生。体外酶活性测定表明,此突变导致酶活性完全丧失。本研究为黄瓜雄性亲本选育提供了新的种质资源,并为 ACS 酶的催化机理提供了新的认识。

Abstract:

Sex determination in plants gives rise to unisexual flowers.  A better understanding of the regulatory mechanism underlying the production of unisexual flowers will help to clarify the process of sex determination in plants and allow researchers and farmers to harness heterosis.  Androecious cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) plants can be used as the male parent when planted alongside a gynoecious line to produce heterozygous seeds, thus reducing the cost of seed production.  The isolation and characterization of additional androecious genotypes in varied backgrounds will increase the pool of available germplasm for breeding.  Here, we discovered an androecious mutant in a previously generated ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS)-mutagenized library of the cucumber inbred line ‘406’.  Genetic analysis, whole-genome resequencing, and molecular marker-assisted verification demonstrated that a nonsynonymous mutation in the ethylene biosynthetic gene 1-AMINOCYCLOPROPANE-1-CARBOXYLATE SYNTHASE 11 (ACS11) conferred androecy.  The mutation caused an amino acid change from serine (Ser) to phenylalanine (Phe) at position 301 (S301F).  In vitro enzyme activity assays revealed that this S301F mutation leads to a complete loss of enzymatic activity.  This study provides a new germplasm for use in cucumber breeding as the androecious male parent, and it offers new insights into the catalytic mechanism of ACS enzymes.

Key words: cucumber ,  androecy ,  ethylene ,  marker-assisted breeding