title: A genetic and metabolic analysis revealed that cotton fiber cell development was retarded by flavonoid naringenin.
abstract: The cotton (Gossypium spp.) fiber is a unique elongated cell that is useful for investigating cell differentiation. Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of factors such as sugar metabolism, the cytoskeleton, and hormones, which are commonly known to be involved in plant cell development, while the secondary metabolites have been less regarded. By mining public data and comparing analyses of fiber from two cotton species (Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense), we found that the flavonoid metabolism is active in early fiber cell development. Different flavonoids exhibited distinct effects on fiber development during ovule culture; among them, naringenin (NAR) could significantly retard fiber development. NAR is a substrate of flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H), and silencing the F3H gene significantly increased the NAR content of fiber cells. Fiber development was suppressed following F3H silencing, but the overexpression of F3H caused no obvious effects. Significant retardation of fiber growth was observed after the introduction of the F3H-RNA interference segment into the high-flavonoid brown fiber G. hirsutum T586 line by cross. A greater accumulation of NAR as well as much shorter fibers were also observed in the BC1 generation plants. These results suggest that NAR is negatively associated with fiber development and that the metabolism mediated by F3H is important in fiber development, thus highlighting that flavonoid metabolism represents a novel pathway with the potential for cotton fiber improvement.
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.
authors.forename: Jiafu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Lili
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: Fenglin
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Haiyan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Yichun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nie
authors.forename: Xianlong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D032561:Cotton Fiber; D044950:Flavanones / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005419:Flavonoids / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D017343:Genes, Plant; D014644:Genetic Variation; D003368:Gossypium / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism; D006899:Mixed Function Oxygenases; D010641:Phenotype; D010802:Phylogeny; D018514:Plant Structures
chemical_list: D044950:Flavanones; D005419:Flavonoids; D006899:Mixed Function Oxygenases; C048797:flavanone 3-dioxygenase; C005273:naringenin; C041477:3-hydroxyflavone
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