Comparative metabolomics in Glycine max and Glycine soja under salt stress to reveal the phenotypes of their offspring.
Metabolomics is developing as an important functional genomics tool for understanding plant systems' response to genetic and environmental changes. Here, we characterized the metabolic changes of cultivated soybean C08 (Glycine max L. Merr) and wild soybean W05 (Glycine soja Sieb.et Zucc.) under salt stress using MS-based metabolomics, in order to reveal the phenotypes of their eight hybrid offspring (9H0086, 9H0124, 9H0391, 9H0736, 9H0380, 9H0400, 9H0434, and 9H0590). Total small molecule extracts of soybean seedling leaves were profiled by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and liquid chromatography-Fourier transform mass spectrometry (LC-FT/MS). We found that wild soybean contained higher amounts of disaccharides, sugar alcohols, and acetylated amino acids than cultivated soybean, but with lower amounts of monosaccharides, carboxylic acids, and unsaturated fatty acids. Further investigations demonstrated that the ability of soybean to tolerate salt was mainly based on synthesis of compatible solutes, induction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavengers, cell membrane modifications, and induction of plant hormones. On the basis of metabolic phenotype, the salt-tolerance abilities of 9H0086, 9H0124, 9H0391, 9H0736, 9H0380, 9H0400, 9H0434, and 9H0590 were discriminated. Our results demonstrated that MS-based metabolomics provides a fast and powerful approach to discriminate the salt-tolerance characteristics of soybeans.
Centre for Soybean Research of Partner State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and School of Life Sciences and ‡School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong.
Yonghai
Y
Lu
Honming
H
Lam
Erxu
E
Pi
Qinglei
Q
Zhan
Sauna
S
Tsai
Chunmei
C
Wang
Yiuwa
Y
Kwan
Saiming
S
Ngai
D002853:Chromatography, Liquid; D007887:Fabaceae / Q000737:chemistry; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D055432:Metabolomics; D010641:Phenotype; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000737:chemistry; D055051:Salt-Tolerant Plants; D036226:Seedlings / Q000737:chemistry; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D013025:Glycine max / Q000737:chemistry*; D013045:Species Specificity; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; D013312:Stress, Physiological
D012965:Sodium Chloride