Identification of a strawberry flavor gene candidate using an integrated genetic-genomic-analytical chemistry approach

BMC Genomics

Kevin M Folta³  Vance M Whitaker⁴  Jinhe Bai¹  Anne Plotto¹  Jeremy Pillet²  Alan H Chambers² 

[1] Horticultural Research Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, USDA, Ft. Pierce, FL, USA;Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA;Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA;Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

关键词: Strawberry;    Molecular marker;    Flavor;    Fragaria;    γ-decalactone;    RNA-seq;   

Others  :  1217453
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2164-15-217

 received in 2013-11-14, accepted in 2014-03-17,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

There is interest in improving the flavor of commercial strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) varieties. Fruit flavor is shaped by combinations of sugars, acids and volatile compounds. Many efforts seek to use genomics-based strategies to identify genes controlling flavor, and then designing durable molecular markers to follow these genes in breeding populations. In this report, fruit from two cultivars, varying for presence-absence of volatile compounds, along with segregating progeny, were analyzed using GC/MS and RNAseq. Expression data were bulked in silico according to presence/absence of a given volatile compound, in this case γ-decalactone, a compound conferring a peach flavor note to fruits.

Results

Computationally sorting reads in segregating progeny based on γ-decalactone presence eliminated transcripts not directly relevant to the volatile, revealing transcripts possibly imparting quantitative contributions. One candidate encodes an omega-6 fatty acid desaturase, an enzyme known to participate in lactone production in fungi, noted here as FaFAD1. This candidate was induced by ripening, was detected in certain harvests, and correlated with γ-decalactone presence. The FaFAD1 gene is present in every genotype where γ-decalactone has been detected, and it was invariably missing in non-producers. A functional, PCR-based molecular marker was developed that cosegregates with the phenotype in F₁ and BC₁ populations, as well as in many other cultivars and wild Fragaria accessions.

Conclusions

Genetic, genomic and analytical chemistry techniques were combined to identify FaFAD1, a gene likely controlling a key flavor volatile in strawberry. The same data may now be re-sorted based on presence/absence of any other volatile to identify other flavor-affecting candidates, leading to rapid generation of gene-specific markers.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Chambers et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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