Exogenous auxin regulates the growth and development of peach fruit at the expansion stage by mediating multiple-hormone signaling

Abstract Background Fruit expansion stage is crucial to fruit yield and quality formation, and auxin plays a significant role by mediating multi-hormone signals during fruit expansion. However, till now, it is still unclear of the molecular regulatory network during auxin-mediated peach fruit expans...

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Main Authors: Yanping Zhang, Ziwen Su, Linjia Luo, Pengkai Wang, Xudong Zhu, Jiecai Liu, Chen Wang
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Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-10-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-023-04514-2
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author Yanping Zhang
Ziwen Su
Linjia Luo
Pengkai Wang
Xudong Zhu
Jiecai Liu
Chen Wang
author_facet Yanping Zhang
Ziwen Su
Linjia Luo
Pengkai Wang
Xudong Zhu
Jiecai Liu
Chen Wang
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description Abstract Background Fruit expansion stage is crucial to fruit yield and quality formation, and auxin plays a significant role by mediating multi-hormone signals during fruit expansion. However, till now, it is still unclear of the molecular regulatory network during auxin-mediated peach fruit expansion. Results Here, exogenous NAA application markedly increased IAA content and drastically decreased ABA content at the fruit expansion stage. Correspondingly, NAA mainly induced the auxin biosynthesis gene (1 PpYUCCA) and early auxin-responsive genes (7PpIAA, 3 PpGH3, and 14 PpSAUR); while NAA down-regulated ABA biosynthesis genes (2 PpNCED, 1 PpABA3, and 1 PpAAO3). In addition, many DEGs involved in other plant hormone biosynthesis and signal transduction were significantly enriched after NAA treatment, including 7 JA, 7 CTK, 6 ETH, and 3 GA. Furthermore, we also found that NAA treatment down-regulated most of genes involved in the growth and development of peach fruit, including the cell wall metabolism-related genes (PpEG), sucrose metabolism-related genes (PpSPS), phenylalanine metabolism-related genes (PpPAL, Pp4CL, and PpHCT), and transcription factors (PpNAC, PpMADS-box, PpDof, PpSBP, and PpHB). Conclusion Overall, NAA treatment at the fruit expansion stage could inhibit some metabolism processes involved in the related genes in the growth and development of peach fruit by regulating multiple-hormone signaling networks. These results help reveal the short-term regulatory mechanism of auxin at the fruit expansion stage and provide new insights into the multi-hormone cascade regulatory network of fruit growth and development.
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spelling doaj.art-24ae491edccf411983ac8ed076f9f8882023-11-19T12:52:54ZengBMCBMC Plant Biology1471-22292023-10-0123111810.1186/s12870-023-04514-2Exogenous auxin regulates the growth and development of peach fruit at the expansion stage by mediating multiple-hormone signalingYanping Zhang0Ziwen Su1Linjia Luo2Pengkai Wang3Xudong Zhu4Jiecai Liu5Chen Wang6College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural UniversityCollege of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural UniversityCollege of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural UniversityFaculty of Horticultural Science and Technology, Suzhou Polytechnic Institute of AgricultureCollege of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural UniversityInner MongoliaAgricultural UniversityCollege of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural UniversityAbstract Background Fruit expansion stage is crucial to fruit yield and quality formation, and auxin plays a significant role by mediating multi-hormone signals during fruit expansion. However, till now, it is still unclear of the molecular regulatory network during auxin-mediated peach fruit expansion. Results Here, exogenous NAA application markedly increased IAA content and drastically decreased ABA content at the fruit expansion stage. Correspondingly, NAA mainly induced the auxin biosynthesis gene (1 PpYUCCA) and early auxin-responsive genes (7PpIAA, 3 PpGH3, and 14 PpSAUR); while NAA down-regulated ABA biosynthesis genes (2 PpNCED, 1 PpABA3, and 1 PpAAO3). In addition, many DEGs involved in other plant hormone biosynthesis and signal transduction were significantly enriched after NAA treatment, including 7 JA, 7 CTK, 6 ETH, and 3 GA. Furthermore, we also found that NAA treatment down-regulated most of genes involved in the growth and development of peach fruit, including the cell wall metabolism-related genes (PpEG), sucrose metabolism-related genes (PpSPS), phenylalanine metabolism-related genes (PpPAL, Pp4CL, and PpHCT), and transcription factors (PpNAC, PpMADS-box, PpDof, PpSBP, and PpHB). Conclusion Overall, NAA treatment at the fruit expansion stage could inhibit some metabolism processes involved in the related genes in the growth and development of peach fruit by regulating multiple-hormone signaling networks. These results help reveal the short-term regulatory mechanism of auxin at the fruit expansion stage and provide new insights into the multi-hormone cascade regulatory network of fruit growth and development.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-023-04514-2Auxin; peachFruit expansion stageMultiple-hormone signaling
spellingShingle Yanping Zhang
Ziwen Su
Linjia Luo
Pengkai Wang
Xudong Zhu
Jiecai Liu
Chen Wang
Exogenous auxin regulates the growth and development of peach fruit at the expansion stage by mediating multiple-hormone signaling
BMC Plant Biology
Auxin; peach
Fruit expansion stage
Multiple-hormone signaling
title Exogenous auxin regulates the growth and development of peach fruit at the expansion stage by mediating multiple-hormone signaling
title_full Exogenous auxin regulates the growth and development of peach fruit at the expansion stage by mediating multiple-hormone signaling
title_fullStr Exogenous auxin regulates the growth and development of peach fruit at the expansion stage by mediating multiple-hormone signaling
title_full_unstemmed Exogenous auxin regulates the growth and development of peach fruit at the expansion stage by mediating multiple-hormone signaling
title_short Exogenous auxin regulates the growth and development of peach fruit at the expansion stage by mediating multiple-hormone signaling
title_sort exogenous auxin regulates the growth and development of peach fruit at the expansion stage by mediating multiple hormone signaling
topic Auxin; peach
Fruit expansion stage
Multiple-hormone signaling
url https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-023-04514-2
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