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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2016, Vol. 15 Issue (8): 1744-1750    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(15)61297-7
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The variation of NAD+-SDH gene in mutant white-fleshed loquat
LI Jing1, 2, 3, WANG Yong-qing1, CHEN Dong2, 3, TU Mei-yan2, 3, XIE Hong-jiang2, 3, JIANG Guo-liang2, 3, LIU Jia2, 3, SUN Shu-xia2, 3
1 College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an 611130, P.R.China
2 Horticulture Research Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu 610066, P.R.China
3 Southwestern Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crops Biology and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu 610066, P.R.China
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Abstract     Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) can be divided into yellow- and white-fleshed cultivars by flesh color. However, a Dongting loquat mutant, which involved bud sport and growing white-fleshed fruit in the central region of the trunk (as wild loquat bears yellow-fleshed fruits naturally), was discovered in the preliminary study. The study cloned the coding sequence (CDS) of NAD+-dependent sorbitol dehydrogenase (NAD+-SDH ) gene from the selected materials of mutant loquat, wild loquat and other nine loquat cultivars/accessions, and found that the CDS of NAD+-SDH gene from the mutant loquat, other than the rest two types of materials, had three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) loci; in addition, the amino acid encoded at variation loci changed accordingly. NAD+-SDH plays an active role in converting sorbitol into fructose in loquat cultivars. For the mutant white-fleshed loquat, the activity of NAD+-SDH rises first and then drops, the sorbitol content decreases steadily, and its fructose content is higher than that in wild loquat from coloration to maturation stage. As demonstrated by the real-time fluorescence quantification PCR analysis, the expression level of NAD+-SDH gene at maturation stage is about 5-fold lower than wild type. It may be assumed that, the three SNPs loci might lead to excessive conversion of sorbitol into fructose under the catalytic action of NAD+-SDH of white-fleshed mutant loquat at maturation stage, resulting in the increase of fructose content and reduced expression abundance of mRNA after transcription. Besides, NAD+-SDH gene may be related to flesh color and carbohydrate variation of white-fleshed mutant loquat.
Keywords:  loquat        flesh color        NAD+-SDH        SNP        fructose  
Received: 31 July 2015   Accepted:
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This study was supported by the Key Laboratory Program of the Ministry of Agriculture of China (2013JCYJ-004) and its supplementary items (2015JSCX-036, 2015LWJJ-010); the Program of Modern Agriculture Technology Innovation and Demonstration of Provincial Finance Department, China (2014CXSF-015).

Corresponding Authors:  SUN Shu-xia, E-mail: sshuxia@163.com; WANG Yong-qing, E-mail: yqw14@sicau.edu.cn    

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LI Jing, WANG Yong-qing, CHEN Dong, TU Mei-yan, XIE Hong-jiang, JIANG Guo-liang, LIU Jia, SUN Shu-xia. 2016. The variation of NAD+-SDH gene in mutant white-fleshed loquat. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 15(8): 1744-1750.

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