Title: | Scenarios of Genes-to-Terpenoids Network Led to the Identification of a Novel alpha/beta-Farnesene/beta-Ocimene Synthase in Camellia sinensis |
Author(s): | Jin J; Zhang S; Zhao M; Jing T; Zhang N; Wang J; Wu B; Song C; |
Address: | "State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, International Joint Laboratory on Tea Chemistry and Health Effects, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China" |
ISSN/ISBN: | 1422-0067 (Electronic) 1422-0067 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "Terpenoids play vital roles in tea aroma quality and plants defense performance determination, whereas the scenarios of genes to metabolites of terpenes pathway remain uninvestigated in tea plants. Here, we report the use of an integrated approach combining metabolites, target gene transcripts and function analyses to reveal a gene-to-terpene network in tea plants. Forty-one terpenes including 26 monoterpenes, 14 sesquiterpenes and one triterpene were detected and 82 terpenes related genes were identified from five tissues of tea plants. Pearson correlation analysis resulted in genes to metabolites network. One terpene synthases whose expression positively correlated with farnesene were selected and its function was confirmed involved in the biosynthesis of alpha-farnesene, beta-ocimene and beta-farnesene, a very important and conserved alarm pheromone in response to aphids by both in vitro enzymatic assay in planta function analysis. In summary, we provided the first reliable gene-to-terpene network for novel genes discovery" |
Keywords: | "Acyclic Monoterpenes/isolation & purification Alkenes/isolation & purification Alkyl and Aryl Transferases/*genetics/metabolism Camellia sinensis/*enzymology/genetics Gene Expression Profiling Gene Expression Regulation, Plant Gene Regulatory Networks Met;" |
Notes: | "MedlineJin, Jieyang Zhang, Shangrui Zhao, Mingyue Jing, Tingting Zhang, Na Wang, Jingming Wu, Bin Song, Chuankui eng 2018YFD1000601/the National Key Research and Development Program of China/ 31870678/National Natural Science Foundation of China/ 1908085J12/Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scientists of Anhui Province/ Switzerland 2020/01/23 Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Jan 19; 21(2):655. doi: 10.3390/ijms21020655" |