Transcriptome profiling of flax plants exposed to a low-frequency alternating electromagnetic field

Frontiers in Genetics

Genetics

Kamil Kostyn¹  Bartosz Kozak¹  Marta Preisner¹  Aleksandra Boba²  Jan Szopa²  Jan Widuła³  Dariusz Sztafrowski⁴ 

[1] Department of Genetics, Plant Breeding & Seed Production, Faculty of Life Sciences and Technology, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland;Department of Genetics, Plant Breeding & Seed Production, Faculty of Life Sciences and Technology, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland;Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland;Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland;Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland;

关键词: electromagnetic field;    flax;    antioxidants;    stress;    transcriptome;    RNA-seq;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fgene.2023.1205469

 received in 2023-04-13, accepted in 2023-05-17,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

All living organisms on Earth evolved in the presence of an electromagnetic field (EMF), adapted to the environment of EMF, and even learned to utilize it for their purposes. However, during the last century, the Earth’s core lost its exclusivity, and many EMF sources appeared due to the development of electricity and electronics. Previous research suggested that the EMF led to changes in intercellular free radical homeostasis and further altered the expression of genes involved in plant response to environmental stresses, inorganic ion transport, and cell wall constituent biosynthesis. Later, CTCT sequence motifs in gene promoters were proposed to be responsible for the response to EMF. How these motifs or different mechanisms are involved in the plant reaction to external EMF remains unknown. Moreover, as many genes activated under EMF treatment do not have the CTCT repeats in their promoters, we aimed to determine the transcription profile of a plant exposed to an EMF and identify the genes that are directly involved in response to the treatment to find the common denominator of the observed changes in the plant transcriptome.

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