文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Yue, Jinli ¹ ; Yuan, Shunjie ³ ; Liu, Lijun ¹ ; Niu, Zaoxia ⁴ ; Ma, Li ¹ ; Pu, Yuanyuan ¹ ; Wu, Junyan ¹ ; Fang, Yan ¹ ; Sun, Wancang ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Gansu Agr Univ, Coll Agron, State Key Lab Aridland Crop Sci, Lanzhou 730070, Peoples R China

2.Gansu Vocat Coll Agr, Lanzhou 730020, Peoples R China

3.Lanzhou Inst Food & Drug Control, Lanzhou 730070, Peoples R China

4.Gansu Acad Agr Sci, Inst Crop, Lanzhou 730070, Peoples R China

关键词： Brassica rapa L.; SWEET gene family; SWEET 10; low-temperature stress

期刊名称：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES （ 影响因子：4.9； 五年影响因子：5.7 ）

ISSN： 1661-6596

年卷期： 2025 年 26 卷 6 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Sugars will eventually be exported transporter (SWEET), a class of glucose transport proteins, is crucial in plants for glucose transport by redistribution of sugars and regulates growth, development, and stress tolerance. Although the SWEET family has been studied in many plants, little is known about its function in winter B. rapa (Brassica rapa L.). Bioinformatics approaches were adopted to identify the SWEET gene (BraSWEETs) family in B. rapa to investigate its role during overwintering. From the whole-genome data, 31 BraSWEET genes were identified. Gene expansion was realized by tandem and fragment duplication, and the 31 genes were classified into four branches by phylogenetic analysis. As indicated by exon-intron structure, cis-acting elements, MEME (Multiple EM for Motif Elicitation) motifs, and protein structure, BraSWEETs were evolutionarily conserved. According to the heat map, 23 BraSWEET genes were differentially expressed during overwintering, revealing their potential functions in response to low-temperature stress and involvement in the overwintering memory-formation mechanism. BraSWEET10 is mainly associated with plant reproductive growth and may be crucial in the formation of overwintering memory in B. rapa. The BraSWEET10 gene was cloned into B. rapa (Longyou-7, L7). The BraSWEET10 protein contained seven transmembrane structural domains. Real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR) showed that the BraSWEET10 gene responded to low-temperature stress. BraSWEET10 was localized to the cell membrane. The root length of overexpressing transgenic A. thaliana was significantly higher than that of wild-type (WT) A. thaliana under low temperatures. Our findings suggest that this gene may be important for the adaptation of winter B. rapa to low-temperature stress. Overall, the findings are expected to contribute to understanding the evolutionary links of the BraSWEET family and lay the foundation for future studies on the functional characteristics of BraSWEET genes.