title: Transcriptome Sequencing Analyses between the Cytoplasmic Male Sterile Line and Its Maintainer Line in Welsh Onion (Allium fistulosum L.).
abstract: Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is important for exploiting heterosis in crop plants and also serves as a model for investigating nuclear-cytoplasmic interaction. The molecular mechanism of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration was investigated in several important economic crops but remains poorly understood in the Welsh onion. Therefore, we compared the differences between the CMS line 64-2 and its maintainer line 64-1 using transcriptome sequencing with the aim of determining critical genes and pathways associated with male sterility. This study combined two years of RNA-seq data; there were 1504 unigenes (in May 2013) and 2928 unigenes (in May 2014) that were differentially expressed between the CMS and cytoplasmic male maintainer Welsh onion varieties. Known CMS-related genes were found in the set of differentially expressed genes and checked by qPCR. These genes included F-type ATPase, NADH dehydrogenase, cytochrome c oxidase, etc. Overall, this study demonstrated that the CMS regulatory genes and pathways may be associated with the mitochondria and nucleus in the Welsh onion. We believe that this transcriptome dataset will accelerate the research on CMS gene clones and other functional genomics research on A. fistulosum L.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Vegetable Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100097, China. lqc072150@126.com.
authors.forename: Qianchun
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Agricultural Integrated Development, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China. lanyanping2000@126.com.
authors.forename: Yanping
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lan
authors.affiliation: Beijing Vegetable Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100097, China. wenchanglong@nercv.org.
authors.forename: Changlong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.affiliation: Beijing Vegetable Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100097, China. zhaohong@nercv.org.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Beijing Vegetable Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100097, China. wyqty@sohu.com.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Beijing Vegetable Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China), Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100097, China. wangyongqin@nercv.org.
authors.forename: Yongqin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000490:Allium / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D009245:NADH Dehydrogenase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D051479:Plant Infertility / Q000235:genetics*; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA; D059467:Transcriptome
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins; D009245:NADH Dehydrogenase; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV
keywords: Welsh onion; cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS); transcriptome sequencing