文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Sun, Chengming ¹ ; Wu, Jian ² ; Zhou, Xiaoying ¹ ; Fu, Sanxiong ¹ ; Liu, Huimin ² ; Xue, Zhifei ³ ; Wang, Xiaodong ¹ ; Peng, Qi ¹ ; Gao, Jianqin ¹ ; Chen, Feng ¹ ; Zhang, Wei ¹ ; Hu, Maolong ¹ ; Fu, Tingdong ³ ; Wang, Youping ² ; Yi, Bin ³ ; Zhang, Jiefu ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Jiangsu Acad Agr Sci, Key Lab Cotton & Rapeseed, Minist Agr & Rural Affairs, Inst Ind Crops,Key Lab Jiangsu Prov Agrobiol, Nanjing, Peoples R China

2.Yangzhou Univ, Key Lab Plant Funct Genom, Minist Educ, Yangzhou, Peoples R China

3.Huazhong Agr Univ, Natl Ctr Rapeseed Improvement, Natl Key Lab Crop Genet Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Lab, Wuhan, Peoples R China

关键词： Rapeseed; Branch angle; Homoeologous exchange; WGCNA; QTL-seq; WRKY40

期刊名称：PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL （ 影响因子：13.8； 五年影响因子：13.2 ）

ISSN： 1467-7644

年卷期： 2024 年 22 卷 6 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Branch angle (BA) is a critical morphological trait that significantly influences planting density, light interception and ultimately yield in plants. Despite its importance, the regulatory mechanism governing BA in rapeseed remains poorly understood. In this study, we generated 109 transcriptome data sets for 37 rapeseed accessions with divergent BA phenotypes. Relative to adaxial branch segments, abaxial segments accumulated higher levels of auxin and exhibited lower expression of six TCP1 homologues and one GA20ox3. A co-expression network analysis identified two modules highly correlated with BA. The modules contained homologues to known BA control genes, such as FUL, YUCCA6, TCP1 and SGR3. Notably, a homoeologous exchange (HE), occurring at the telomeres of A09, was prevalent in large BA accessions, while an A02-C02 HE was common in small BA accessions. In their corresponding regions, these HEs explained the formation of hub gene hotspots in the two modules. QTL-seq analysis confirmed that the presence of a large A07-C06 HE (similar to 8.1 Mb) was also associated with a small BA phenotype, and BnaA07.WRKY40.b within it was predicted as candidate gene. Overexpressing BnaA07.WRKY40.b in rapeseed increased BA by up to 20(degrees), while RNAi- and CRISPR-mediated mutants (BnaA07.WRKY40.b and BnaC06.WRKY40.b) exhibited decreased BA by up to 11.4(degrees). BnaA07.WRKY40.b was exclusively localized to the nucleus and exhibited strong expression correlations with many genes related to gravitropism and plant architecture. Taken together, our study highlights the influence of HEs on rapeseed plant architecture and confirms the role of WRKY40 homologues as novel regulators of BA.