| Title: | Petunia x hybrida floral scent production is negatively affected by high-temperature growth conditions |
| Author(s): | Cna'ani A; Muhlemann JK; Ravid J; Masci T; Klempien A; Nguyen TT; Dudareva N; Pichersky E; Vainstein A; |
| Address: | "Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, 76100, Israel. Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2063, USA. Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1048, USA" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1365-3040 (Electronic) 0140-7791 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Increasing temperatures due to changing global climate are interfering with plant-pollinator mutualism, an interaction facilitated mainly by floral colour and scent. Gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy analyses revealed that increasing ambient temperature leads to a decrease in phenylpropanoid-based floral scent production in two Petunia x hybrida varieties, P720 and Blue Spark, acclimated at 22/16 or 28/22 degrees C (day/night). This decrease could be attributed to down-regulation of scent-related structural gene expression from both phenylpropanoid and shikimate pathways, and up-regulation of a negative regulator of scent production, emission of benzenoids V (EOBV). To test whether the negative effect of increased temperature on scent production can be reduced in flowers with enhanced metabolic flow in the phenylpropanoid pathway, we analysed floral volatile production by transgenic 'Blue Spark' plants overexpressing CaMV 35S-driven Arabidopsis thaliana production of anthocyanin pigments 1 (PAP1) under elevated versus standard temperature conditions. Flowers of 35S:PAP1 transgenic plants produced the same or even higher levels of volatiles when exposed to a long-term high-temperature regime. This phenotype was also evident when analysing relevant gene expression as inferred from sequencing the transcriptome of 35S:PAP1 transgenic flowers under the two temperature regimes. Thus, up-regulation of transcription might negate the adverse effects of temperature on scent production" |
| Keywords: | "Anthocyanins/metabolism Arabidopsis/genetics Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics/*metabolism Down-Regulation Flowers/genetics/growth & development/*metabolism Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Gene Expression *Gene Expression Regulation, Plant Hot Temperatur;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineCna'ani, Alon Muhlemann, Joelle K Ravid, Jasmin Masci, Tania Klempien, Antje Nguyen, Thuong T H Dudareva, Natalia Pichersky, Eran Vainstein, Alexander eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 2014/11/18 Plant Cell Environ. 2015 Jul; 38(7):1333-46. doi: 10.1111/pce.12486. Epub 2015 Jan 7" |
