title: Transcriptome Analysis Identifies Key Candidate Genes Mediating Purple Ovary Coloration in Asiatic Hybrid Lilies.
abstract: Lily tepals have a short lifespan. Once the tepals senesce, the ornamental value of the flower is lost. Some cultivars have attractive purple ovaries and fruits which greatly enhance the ornamental value of Asiatic hybrid lilies. However, little is known about the molecular mechanisms of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Asiatic hybrid lily ovaries. To investigate the transcriptional network that governs purple ovary coloration in Asiatic hybrid lilies, we obtained transcriptome data from green ovaries (S1) and purple ovaries (S2) of Asiatic "Tiny Padhye". Comparative transcriptome analysis revealed 4228 differentially expressed genes. Differential expression analysis revealed that ten unigenes including fourCHSgenes, oneCHIgene, oneF3Hgene, oneF3'Hgene, oneDFRgene, oneUFGTgene, and one3RTgene were significantly up-regulated in purple ovaries. OneMYBgene,LhMYB12-Lat, was identified as a key transcription factor determining the distribution of anthocyanins in Asiatic hybrid lily ovaries. Further qPCR results showed unigenes related to anthocyanin biosynthesis were highly expressed in purple ovaries of three purple-ovaried Asiatic hybrid lilies at stages 2 and 3, while they showed an extremely low level of expression in ovaries of three green-ovaried Asiatic hybrid lilies during all developmental stages. In addition, shading treatment significantly decreased pigment accumulation by suppressing the expression of several unigenes related to anthocyanin biosynthesis in ovaries of Asiatic "Tiny Padhye". Lastly, a total of 15,048 Simple Sequence Repeats (SSRs) were identified in 13,710 sequences, and primer pairs for SSRs were designed. The results could further our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Asiatic hybrid lily ovaries.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China. xlf511@126.com.
authors.forename: Leifeng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China. yangpanpan@126.com.|College of Landscape Architecture, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China. yangpanpan@126.com.
authors.forename: Panpan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China. ysxia8@126.com.
authors.forename: Suxia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China. 13161164012@163.com.
authors.forename: Yayan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China. ahxuhua@163.com.
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China. 13067739520@163.com.
authors.forename: Yuwei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.affiliation: Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China. mingjun@caas.cn.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ming
mesh_terms: D000872:Anthocyanins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D002678:Chimera; D002681:China; D003116:Color; D035264:Flowers / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D063990:Gene Ontology; D017343:Genes, Plant; D027762:Lilium / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D010802:Phylogeny; D010858:Pigmentation / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D059467:Transcriptome
chemical_list: D000872:Anthocyanins; D014157:Transcription Factors
keywords: Lilium spp.; anthocyanins; purple ovaries; transcriptional network; transcriptome