RNA sequencing and functional analysis implicate the regulatory role of long non-coding RNAs in tomato fruit ripening

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology.

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of experimental botany. - 1985. - 66(2015), 15 vom: 07. Aug., Seite 4483-95
1. Verfasser: Zhu, Benzhong (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Yang, Yongfang, Li, Ran, Fu, Daqi, Wen, Liwei, Luo, Yunbo, Zhu, Hongliang
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2015
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of experimental botany
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Fruit ripening RNA-seq VIGS. functional analysis long non-coding RNA tomato Plant Proteins RNA, Long Noncoding RNA, Plant
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Zusammenfassung:© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology.
Recently, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to play critical regulatory roles in model plants, such as Arabidopsis, rice, and maize. However, the presence of lncRNAs and how they function in fleshy fruit ripening are still largely unknown because fleshy fruit ripening is not present in the above model plants. Tomato is the model system for fruit ripening studies due to its dramatic ripening process. To investigate further the role of lncRNAs in fruit ripening, it is necessary and urgent to discover and identify novel lncRNAs and understand the function of lncRNAs in tomato fruit ripening. Here it is reported that 3679 lncRNAs were discovered from wild-type tomato and ripening mutant fruit. The lncRNAs are transcribed from all tomato chromosomes, 85.1% of which came from intergenic regions. Tomato lncRNAs are shorter and have fewer exons than protein-coding genes, a situation reminiscent of lncRNAs from other model plants. It was also observed that 490 lncRNAs were significantly up-regulated in ripening mutant fruits, and 187 lncRNAs were down-regulated, indicating that lncRNAs could be involved in the regulation of fruit ripening. In line with this, silencing of two novel tomato intergenic lncRNAs, lncRNA1459 and lncRNA1840, resulted in an obvious delay of ripening of wild-type fruit. Overall, the results indicated that lncRNAs might be essential regulators of tomato fruit ripening, which sheds new light on the regulation of fruit ripening
Beschreibung:Date Completed 24.05.2016
Date Revised 07.12.2022
published: Print-Electronic
SRA: SRP04432
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1460-2431
DOI:10.1093/jxb/erv203