scholarly journals Carbohydrate Accumulation and Differential Transcript Expression in Winter Wheat Lines with Different Levels of Snow Mold and Freezing Tolerance after Cold Treatment

Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1416
Author(s):  
Erika B. Kruse ◽  
Samuel Revolinski ◽  
Jesse Aplin ◽  
Daniel Z. Skinner ◽  
Timothy D. Murray ◽  
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Winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) undergoes a period of cold acclimation in order to survive the ensuing winter, which can bring freezing temperatures and snow mold infection. Tolerance of these stresses is conferred in part by accumulation of carbohydrates in the crown region. This study investigates the contributions of carbohydrate accumulation during a cold treatment among wheat lines that differ in their snow mold tolerance (SMT) or susceptibility (SMS) and freezing tolerance (FrT) or susceptibility (FrS). Two parent varieties and eight recombinant inbred lines (RILs) were analyzed. The selected RILs represent four combinations of tolerance: SMT/FrT, SMT/FrS, SMS/FrT, and SMS/FrS. It is hypothesized that carbohydrate accumulation and transcript expression will differ between sets of RILs. Liquid chromatography with a refractive index detector was used to quantify carbohydrate content at eight time points over the cold treatment period. Polysaccharide and sucrose content differed between SMT and SMS RILs at various time points, although there were no significant differences in glucose or fructose content. Glucose and fructose content differed between FrT and FrS RILs in this study, but no significant differences in polysaccharide or sucrose content. RNAseq was used to investigate differential transcript expression, followed by modular enrichment analysis, to reveal potential candidates for other mechanisms of tolerance, which included expected pathways such as oxidative stress, chitinase activity, and unexpected transcriptional pathways. These differences in carbohydrate accumulation and differential transcript expression begin to give insight into the differences of wheat lines when exposed to cold temperatures.

Plants ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasser Bahrman ◽  
Emilie Hascoët ◽  
Odile Jaminon ◽  
Frédéric Dépta ◽  
Jean-François Hû ◽  
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Low temperature stress affects growth and development in pea (Pisum sativum L.) and decreases yield. In this study, RNA sequencing time series analyses performed on lines, Champagne frost-tolerant and Térèse frost-sensitive, during a low temperature treatment versus a control condition, led us to identify 4981 differentially expressed genes. Thanks to our experimental design and statistical analyses, we were able to classify these genes into three sets. The first one was composed of 2487 genes that could be related to the constitutive differences between the two lines and were not regulated during cold treatment. The second gathered 1403 genes that could be related to the chilling response. The third set contained 1091 genes, including genes that could be related to freezing tolerance. The identification of differentially expressed genes related to cold, oxidative stress, and dehydration responses, including some transcription factors and kinases, confirmed the soundness of our analyses. In addition, we identified about one hundred genes, whose expression has not yet been linked to cold stress. Overall, our findings showed that both lines have different characteristics for their cold response (chilling response and/or freezing tolerance), as more than 90% of differentially expressed genes were specific to each of them.


2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Qiu ◽  
Lei Cui ◽  
Yanling Sun ◽  
Jingwei Zou ◽  
Chaoxing Zheng ◽  
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1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 1152-1156 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Gaudet ◽  
T. H. H. Chen

The development of resistance in winter-wheat seedlings to the cottony snow mold pathogen, Coprinus psychromorbidus Redhead et Traquair, was studied under controlled-environment conditions. Resistance was measured by the percentage of inoculated plants surviving after incubation at −3 °C for 8–12 weeks. The number of weeks of prehardening growth prior to inoculation, fresh weight, LT50, and tiller number were positively correlated with resistance to C. psychromorbidus. Prehardening temperatures of 7 and 15 °C favored development of snow mold resistance compared with 2 °C, but the LT50 (50% killing temperature) values of uninoculated plants were not significantly different. After 1 and 2.5 weeks growth at 20 °C, plants hardened at 2 °C and 12-h day length gradually increased in resistance to snow mold from 1 to 15 weeks of hardening. Development of resistance to C. psychromorbidus in winter wheat was most influenced by the amount of prehardening growth, and the development of freezing resistance played a minor role in disease resistance development. This form of resistance, which develops with increasing plant age, appeared to reduce the rate of infection and disease development by C. psychromorbidus.


2001 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Gaudet ◽  
A. Laroche ◽  
B. Puchalski

Resistance to snow molds in winter wheat increases with plant age, and older plants express higher levels of resistance than young plants. Experiments were conducted to study the effect of plant age on percent crown water content (%CWC) and dry weights in fall rye and winter wheat cultivars grown under controlled environments and in the field at Lethbridge, AB. Under controlled environments, the oldest (6 wk of pre-hardening growth at 20°C) treatments accumulated the greatest dry weights following exposure of plants to 1 to 6 wk hardening conditions at 2°C, compared with younger (1 to 4 wk pre-hardening growth) treatments. Exposure of plants to hardening temperatures had the greatest effect on %CWC values, which decreased, gradually, from 82–89% (4.95–8.67 g H2O g–1 DW) in unhardened treatments to 67–72% (2.05–2.65 g H2O g–1 DW) in plants receiving the 6 wk pre-hardening and 6 wk hardening growth. However, the oldest treatments (4 to 6 wk pre-hardening growth) always exhibited the lowest %CWC values among all hardening treatments. The %CWC in the oldest (6 wk) unhardened plants was also lower ([Formula: see text] = 80.8% or 4.24 g H2O g–1 DW) than in the youngest (1wk) unhardened plants ([Formula: see text] = 91.2% or 11.31 g H2O g–1 DW ), demonstrating that water loss occurs in older plants in the absence of low hardening temperatures. In a field study at Lethbridge during the autumn, winter, and early spring of 1997–1998 and 1998–1999, different seeding dates were employed to obtain plants differing in age and developmental state. The %CWC in early-seeded treatments was lower during the autumn, and remained lower in early spring, compared with later seeded cultivars. The %CWC in crowns was negatively associated with the snow mold resistance rating of a fall rye and five winter wheat cultivars under controlled environment conditions, and among a fall rye and 13 winter wheat cultivars in the field; the highest correlation values in the field were observed from mid-November to mid-March during 1997–1998 (r = –0.84), and 1998–1999 (r = – 0.76). These results indicate that the type of snow mold resistance that increases with plant age is related to the accumulation of crown dry matter and the ability of wheat and rye plants to lose crown water in response to both extended growth at warm temperatures and hardening at low, above freezing temperatures. Key words: Carbohydrates, fructans, low temperature basidiomycete, Coprinus psychromorbidus


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