Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica ›› 2022, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1): 35-41. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20192215

Special Issue: Tomato Biotechnology Vegetables

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Effects of Transcription Factor SlMYB-related 2 on Cold Tolerance of Tomato

WU Honghong1, DUAN Xuefen1, GUO Yangdong2, ZHANG Xichun1   

  1. 1. College of Plant Science and Technology,Beijing Agricultural University,Beijing Laboratory of Vegetable Genetics,Breeding and Biotechnology,Beijing 102206,China
    2. College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University,Beijing 100094,China
  • Received:2021-03-22 Published:2022-02-28

Abstract:

Tomato belongs to the cold sensitive model plant,which is vulnerable to chilling injury during its growth,thus affecting its yield.In order to provide a theoretical basis for further revealing the molecular mechanism of cold resistance of tomato plants and breeding tomato cold resistant varieties,tomato germplasm resource No.25 of vegetable genetics,Breeding and Biotechnology Laboratory was used as material,and tomato transcription factor SlMYB-related 2 was used as research object.Based on CRISPR/Cas9 gene knockout vector,tomato positive plants were obtained by Agrobacterium transformation.The VIGS transient silencing expression vector was constructed,and the wild-type and and virus transformed plants without inserted target gene fragment were used as control.The three groups of plants were treated with low temperature at 4 ℃(16 h day / 8 h night,60% humidity).The contents of physiological indexes related to cold resistance were measured and its cold tolerance was compared.The results showed that CRISPR/Cas9 gene knockout vector was constructed and two CRISPR silenced positive plants were obtained.Constructed the expression vector of VIGS silence,after low temperature treatment,it was found that with the extension of low temperature treatment time,the growth trend of proline and soluble sugar in SlMYB-related 2 gene transformation group was slower than that in control tomato group(wild type carrying TRV,CK)and wild group(WT),and the content was lower than that in CK group and wild group.However,the content of malondialdehyde was higher than that of CK group and wild group,which proved that the cold resistance of tomato plants with transient expression of VIGS was significantly lower than that of CK group and wild group.Through the analysis of cold resistance of tomato plants after gene transient silencing expression,it was found that SlMYB-related 2 gene played a positive regulatory role in low temperature stress.

Key words: Tomato, MYB transcription factor, VIGS, CRISPR/Cas9, Silence carrier, Genetic transformation

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WU Honghong, DUAN Xuefen, GUO Yangdong, ZHANG Xichun. Effects of Transcription Factor SlMYB-related 2 on Cold Tolerance of Tomato[J]. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica, 2022, 37(1): 35-41. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20192215.

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