A systems-wide comparison of red rice (Oryza longistaminata) tissues identifies rhizome specific genes and proteins that are targets for cultivated rice improvement

BMC Plant Biology

Research Article

Mark Willer¹  Carol A Soderlund¹  William Nelson¹  Jay J Thelen²  Tiago S Balbuena³  Fernanda Salvato³  Ruifeng He⁴  Jeong-Jin Park⁴  Min-Jeong Kim⁴  David R Gang⁴  John A Crow⁵  Greg D May⁵ 

[1] BIO5 Institute, The University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA;Department of Biochemistry and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, 65211, Columbia, MO, USA;Department of Biochemistry and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, 65211, Columbia, MO, USA;Departamento de Tecnologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, 14884-900, Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil;Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, 646340, 99164, Pullman, WA, USA;National Center for Genome Resources, 87505, Santa Fe, NM, USA;

关键词: Transcriptomics;    Proteomics;    Metabolomics;    Rhizome;    Invasive species;    Disease resistance;    Rice blast;    Rice;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2229-14-46

 received in 2013-09-01, accepted in 2014-02-07,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe rhizome, the original stem of land plants, enables species to invade new territory and is a critical component of perenniality, especially in grasses. Red rice (Oryza longistaminata) is a perennial wild rice species with many valuable traits that could be used to improve cultivated rice cultivars, including rhizomatousness, disease resistance and drought tolerance. Despite these features, little is known about the molecular mechanisms that contribute to rhizome growth, development and function in this plant.ResultsWe used an integrated approach to compare the transcriptome, proteome and metabolome of the rhizome to other tissues of red rice. 116 Gb of transcriptome sequence was obtained from various tissues and used to identify rhizome-specific and preferentially expressed genes, including transcription factors and hormone metabolism and stress response-related genes. Proteomics and metabolomics approaches identified 41 proteins and more than 100 primary metabolites and plant hormones with rhizome preferential accumulation. Of particular interest was the identification of a large number of gene transcripts from Magnaportha oryzae, the fungus that causes rice blast disease in cultivated rice, even though the red rice plants showed no sign of disease.ConclusionsA significant set of genes, proteins and metabolites appear to be specifically or preferentially expressed in the rhizome of O. longistaminata. The presence of M. oryzae gene transcripts at a high level in apparently healthy plants suggests that red rice is resistant to this pathogen, and may be able to provide genes to cultivated rice that will enable resistance to rice blast disease.

【 授权许可】

Unknown   
© He et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.