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abstract
To understand better the regulatory mechanism of the carotenoid
accumulation, the expression profile of relevant carotenoid genes and
metabolites were compared between two peach cultivars with different
colors during fruit development. Meanwhile, the change pattern of
carotenoid content and expression of carotenoid metabolic genes in
peaches after harvest in response to blue light were also investigated.
As compared to the yellow fleshed-cultivar ‘Jinli’, lower carotenoid levels
were observed in skin and pulp in white peach cultivar ‘Hujing’, which
might be explained by differentially expression of PpCCD4 gene.
With respect to ‘Jinli’, the carotenoid accumulation during fruit
velopment in fruit skin was partially linked with the transcriptional
egulation of PpFPPS, PpGGPS, PpLCYB and PpCHYB. However, in the
lp, the accumulation might be also associated with the increased
ranscriptions of PpPDS, along with the above four genes. Blue light
treatment induced carotenoid accumulation in ‘Jinli’ peaches during
storage.
In addition, the treated-fruit displayed higher expression of all the eight
genes analysed with a lesser extent on PpCCD4, which suggested that the
much more increased carotenoid synthesis rate could result in the higher
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t is well documented that the content and composition of
carotenoid is developmentally regulated and affected by
environmental stimuli (Cazzonelli & Pogson, 2010). Light has
been reported to be an important environmental factor which
can regulate carotenoid metabolism in plants (Wu et al., 2007;
Zhang et al., 2012, 2015). In tomato irradiated with red light,
the accumulation of lycopene, as well as an increase in total
carotenoid content, was observed (Alba, Cordonnier-Pratt, &
Pratt, 2000; Schofield & Paliyath, 2005). Blue light treatment
induced carotenoid accumulation effectively in the juice sacs of
Satsuma mandarin and Valencia orange (Zhang et al., 2012,
2015).
The flesh color of yellow-fleshed peach fruit (Prunus persica L.
Batsch) is produced by a group of carotenoids, which is an
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Recently, it has been reported that the carotenoid cleavage
dioxygenase (PpCCD4) was the major factor in determining
carotenoid degradation in white peaches but no correlation was
observed between carotenoid accumulation and the expression
levels of carotenoid biosynthetic genes (Adami et al., 2013;
Brandi et al., 2011).
Despite recent efforts to understand the molecular biology of
carotenogenesis takes place in peaches, several gaps remain in
our understanding of the signals and mechanisms involved in
carotenoid metabolism. To investigate further how carotenoid
accumulation in peach fruit, in this study, firstly the
concentration
and composition of carotenoids and the expression of several
carotenoid
biosynthetic genes as well as PpCCD4 in fruit peel and pulp were
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2. Materials and methods 2.1. Plant materials, sample collection,
and blue light treatment Two peach cultivars (Prunus persica),
‘Hujing’ and ‘Jinli’, were obtained from the experimental farm of
Fenghua Peach Fruit Research Institute (Ningbo, China). Trees
were subjected to standard horticultural practices. Fruit
ripening stages were defined according to Tonutti, Bonghi,
Ruperti, Tornielli, and Ramina
(1997) and Gabotti, Negrini, Morgutti, Nocito, and Cocucci
(2015). At the desired times, fruit (ten fruit per each of the five
plants of each cultivar considered per each ripening stage) of
‘Hujing’ and ‘Jinli’ were picked and quickly transferred to the
laboratory, and fruit tissues at 98 (S1), 105 (S2), 120 (S3), 127
(S4), and
134 (S5) DAFB were sampled during the spring-summer season
of 2015 (Fig. $2).
For blue light treatment, fruit of each cultivar at commercial
maturity stage were selected for uniform size and color, and
then divided into two groups randomly. The blue light treatment
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2.2. Extraction and HPLC analysis of carotenoids Extraction and
purification of carotenoids in tissue samples (2 g) were
performed according to a previously described method (Tuan et
al., 2013; Wright & Kader, 1997). To determine the
carotenoids content in each sample, the HPLC analyses were
carried out as previously described by Taylor and Ramsay
520 2.3. Total RNA extraction and cDNA synthesis Total RNA
was isolated using a Plant Total RNA Extraction Kit
(Genotheramics, Suzhou, China) according to the
manufacturer’s instructions. Extracted RNA was treated with
RNase-free DNase (Omega, Norcross, GA) to remove any
genomic DNA according to the instruction manual. An aliquot (2
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2.4. Quantitative real-time PCR (q-PCR) analysis
Q-PCR analysis was performed using the Mx3000P q-PCR
System (Agilent Stratagene, Santa Clara, CA, USA) and the
DyNAmoTM ColorFlash SYBR Green qPCR kit (Thermo
Scientific, Pittsburgh, PA) following the manufacturer’s
instructions. Amplifications were performed using a total
volume of 12.5 IL reaction containing 0.5 IL of the synthesized
cDNA, 0.25 IL of 101M each forward and reverse primers, 6.5 IL
_of the SYBR Green PCR Master Mix and 5 IL of RNase-free
water. The data were analysed and normalized to PpTEF2 to
minimize variation in cDNA template levels. All gene expression
analyses were performed with three independent biological
replicates, and primer sequences used for real time PCR are
listed in Supplementary Table $1.2.5. Data processing and
statistical analysis The contents of carotenoids and transcript
abundance of carotenoidmetabolic genes of two peach cultivars
were displayed with GraphPad Prism (v.5.01). All values are
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3.1. Carotenoid content and composition analysis in fruit peel of two
peach cultivars during fruit development The total carotenoid content
in the peel of the yellow fleshedpeaches (Jinli) and white cultivar
(Hujing) at five developmental stages was analysed. At early ripening
stage S1, peel of ‘Jinli’ and ‘Hujing’ had similar total carotenoid levels
and accumulated only a few carotenoid compounds at about 0.04 lg g1
fresh weight (FW) in both cultivars. However, a significant increase in
the carotenoid
content of ‘Jinli’ was observed from the S2 stage, while carotenoid
content in ‘Hujing’ remained low. At the S5 stage, the total carotenoid
content in peach peels rose to 1.3 lg g1 FW in ‘Jinli’ but only 0.10 lg g1
FW ‘Hujing’ (Fig. 1). HPLC measurements showed that lutein,
zeaxanthin, b-carotene and b-cryptoxanthin were predominant in both
two cultivars during ripening. All of these carotenoids progressively
increased during fruit development
in ‘Jinli’ but nearly remained constant in ‘Hujing’ during the whole
process of fruit development (Fig. 1)
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increasing transcript level during fruit development in peels
of ‘Jinli’ fruit, which was consistent with the accumulation of
the total carotenoids. More FFPS transcripts were detected
in peels of ‘Jinli’ as compared to ‘Hujing’. However, ‘Hujing’
showed more transcripts of PpPSY, PpPDS, PpZDS and
PpCCD4 during fruit development with a few exceptions
(Fig. 2). From stage S1 to S2, the expression of PpGGPS was
lower in the peel of ‘Jinli’ than in
‘Hujing’, but the gene expression level was approximately
twice as great in ‘Jinli’ as in ‘Hujing’ thereafter. The
expression levels of PpLCYB and PpCHYB increased with
fruit development in the peel of ‘Hujing’ and peaked at stage
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3.3. Carotenoid content and composition analysis in pulp of two
peach cultivars during fruit development The changes and profiles
in pulp of ‘Jinli’ fruit were similar to those in peels. The total
carotenoid accumulated with ripening principally due to the
increased lutein, zeaxanthin, b-carotene and _ b-cryptoxanthin
during ripening. In the pulp of ‘Jinli’, the total carotenoid content
was usually higher than in the peel. However, almost no
carotenoids were detected in the pulp of the white cultivar ‘Hujing’
(Fig. 3).
3.4. Expression pattern of carotenoid metabolic genes in pulp of
two
peach cultivars during fruit development
In pulp of ‘Jinli’, expression of most carotenogenic genes increased
gradually from stage S1 to reach a maximum at stage S4.
Abundance of PpFPPS and PpCHYB was higher in pulp of ‘Jinli’
than in ‘Hujing’ tissue during fruit development but higher
transcripts
of PpPSY, PpZDS and PpCCD4 were observed in ‘Hujing’ in this
process with an exception of PpPSY expression at stage S2. In
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3.5. Effect of blue light treatment on carotenoid content and
Composition In the present study, the effect of blue light
treatment on the
accumulation of the main carotenoids in peach fruit of ‘Jinli’ and
‘Hujing’ after harvest was also investigated. During the whole
50۲296, the total carotenoid content and b-cryptoxanthin level in
‘Jinli’ increased with storage time. In respect to zeaxanthin and
b-carotene in ‘Jinli’, their levels were increased firstly and
peaked at day 15 and day 10, respectively, followed by a decline
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Lutein content in ‘Jinli’ decreased during the first 5 days of
storage
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and increased during the remaining days. The contents of all
these four carotenoids could be induced by blue light treatment
and as a result, the total carotenoid content was higher in the
light treated-‘Jinli’ fruit than in control fruit (Fig. 5). No
significant changes in levels of total carotenoid as well as each
carotenoid such as lutein, zeaxanthin and b-cryptoxanthin were
observed in ‘Hujing’ fruit during storage with a slight decrease
in b-carotene content. Blue
light did not have any influence on carotenoid changes and
profiles in this cultivar (Fig. 5). 3.6. Effect of blue light
treatment on gene expression related to
carotenoid metabolism Most of genes including PpPSY, PpPDS,
PpZDS and PpCHYB expressed higher in ‘Jinli’ than in ‘Hujing’
during storage. However,
the higher carotenoid degradative PoCCD4 gene was detected
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expression of PpFPPS and inhibited the decline of PpGGPS
expression. Consequently, higher transcripts of these two genes were
detected in the blue light treated-peaches regardless of the cultivars.
The other six genes such as PpPSY, PpPDS, PpZDS, PpLCYB,
PpCHYB and PpCCD4 in both cultivars showed a similar change
pattern during storage. The expression in peaches increased
duringthe first 5 or 10 days and decreased thereafter with exceptions
ofPpZDS and PpLCYB in ‘Hujing’. The transcripts of all these genes
were more abundant in light treated-fruit than that in control
peaches irrespective of the cultivars (Fig. 6).
. Discussion
In the white cultivar ‘Hujing’ in present study, less or no carotenoids
were observed in the skin or flesh, however, the transcripts for all
carotenoid biosynthetic genes investigated in this study were
detected, which indicated that the transcriptional regulation of these
genes was not the major reason for the low level of carotenoids in
the white peaches. It is well documented that the biosynthetic or
degradative enzyme involved in carotenoid metabolism can regulate
carotenoid accumulation (Nisar et al., 2015).In peach fruit, PpCCD4
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Similarly, higher expression of CmCCD4 was related to the much
less carotenoid accumulation
in white chrysanthemum petals (Ohmiya, Kishimoto,
Aida, Yoshioka, & Sumitomo, 2006). Our results confirmed that
the levelof PpCCD4 transcripts in white fleshed-cultivar ‘Hujing’
was higher
than in ‘Jinli’, the yellow one regardless of fruit skin and flesh
2 suggested that the biosynthetic carotenoids were gradually
degraded by the highly active PpCCD4 during fruit development,
further resulting into almost undetectable carotenoids levels in
the white fleshed-peaches. Together with the previous reports,
our results here demonstrated that the differential expression of
PpCCD4 plays a determining role in the carotenoid content in
white
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in watermelon (Ly, Li, Liu, Gu, & Zhao, 2015). In addition, it must
be pointed that higher transcripts of PpPDS were also observed
from the early fruit stage (S2) to ripening (S5) in the pulp of
yellow peaches in comparison with ‘Hujing’. In citrus, the
expression of PDS gene was revealed to link with b-carotene
accumulation directly (Ha, Kim, Park, Lee, & Cho, 2007). High
concentration of carotenoids was related to the high PDS
transcripts as well in pepper (Ha et al., 2007). These results
ombined to suggest that the increased of PpPDS in the pulp in
‘Jinli’ might lead to the high level of carotenoids in this cultivar to
some extent.
Cyclisation of lycopene is a critical regulatory point of branching
in carotenoid synthesis (Fraser & Bramley, 2004; Taylor &
Ramsay, 2005). LCYB and CHYB play important roles in
regulating the biosynthesis of b-carotene, lutein, zeaxanthin and
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kiwifruit, (Ampomah-Dwamena et al., 2012). In squash fruit, high
transcript level of CHYB was observed in the high carotenoid
cultivars in comparison with the low carotenoid ones
(Nakkanong,Wang, & Zhang, 2012). In this study, PpLCYB
expression in ‘Jinlipulp and peel was more strongly expressed
than that in the white
cultivar at the late development stages, possibly contributing to b-
carotene accumulation in ‘Jinli’. Meanwhile, the higher expression
evels of PpCHYB in flesh and skin of ‘Jinli’ compared with‘Hujing’
might partially explain the higher levels of lutein, zeaxanthin and
-cryptoxanthin. In contrast, although the transcripts of
PpCCD4 showed an increasing trend during ‘Jinli’ ripening, its
expression level was much lower than in ‘Hujing’. Therefore, the
lower rate of carotenoid degradation with CCD4 gene may be
another factor for the increased carotenoid accumulation in
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complete parallel, with the expression pattern of certain genes
such as FPPS and GGPS in the methylerythritol phosphate
pathway and PpLCYB and PpCHYB in the carotenoid biosynthetic
pathway during fruit development. However, in terms of the flesh
in yellow fleshed-fruit, in addition to the higher transcripts of the
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genes, the higher expression of PpPDS and lower transcripts of
PpCCD4 genes, as compared to the white cultivar, also coincided
with the higher level of carotenoids, suggesting that both of the
two genes might be involved in carotenoid accumulation in pulp
of yellow fleshed-fruit during maturation. It is noteworthy that
total carotenoids in the flesh in yellow peaches showed higher
levels compared with those in the peel during development,
althouch the qene exnrescion pnrofile in the flesh was similar to
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During storage, carotenoid accumulated in yellow
fleshedpeaches, however, no significant change was observed
in the white cultivar. Similarly to the white fleshed-peaches
during maturation, in the white peaches during storage, the
discrepancy between carotenoid level and expression profile of
carotenoid biosynthetic genes indicated that high PpCCD4
gene expression during storage
might be also concomitant with the low level of carotenoids in
‘this accession. However, the pattern of changes in gene
expression in yellow fleshed-peaches during storage was
different from that in fruit during development. As compared
with the white cultivar, besides the higher transcription of
PpCHYB and lower expression of PpCCD4 gene, the yellow
fruit also experienced higher transcripts
of PpPSY and PpZDS, two important genes for the linear
carotenoid formation, which was also probably responsible for
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Blue light irradiationenhanced the expression levels of genes
involved in the carotenoid biosynthesis in sprouts of Tartary
buckwheat (Tuan et al., 2013).
Blue light treatment could also induce carotenoid accumulation
via regulating the expression of carotenoid biosynthetic genes in
the juice sacs of Satsuma mandarin and Valencia orange (Zhang
et al., 2012, 2015). In yellow-fleshed peaches, blue light
treatment during storage not only induced carotenoid level but
also brought
about important changes in the gene expression involved in
carotenoid metabolism. Blue light up-regulated the expression of
all the genes analysed with a lesser extent on PpCCD4, which
indicated that as compared to the control fruit, the much more
increased carotenoid synthesis rate could result into the higher
carotenoid content in blue light-treated fruit. With respect to
white peaches, it is noticeable that the expression of all the
genes analysed was stimulated by blue light as well, however, no
significant difference on carotenoid composition and content was
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In conclusion, accumulation of carotenoids was observed in peel
and flesh of yellow fleshed-peaches during fruit maturation.
The expression of PpFPPS, PpGPPS, PpLCYB and PpCHYB might
be contributed to the carotenoid accumulation in the peel of this
accession during fruit maturation. Besides these four genes,
PpPDS might also play an important role in carotenoid
biosynthesis in the pulp. However, in the white cultivar, the
transcript of PpCCD4 was likely to be the major determinant in
carotenoid content.
Our results also showed blue light was effective in inducing the
carotenoid accumulation in yellow fleshed-peaches after harvest.
Results on expression profiles of genes in carotenoid metabolism
indicated that the much more increased carotenoid synthesis rate
induced by blue light could result into the higher carotenoid
content in treated fruit.
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Acknowledgments
This study was supported by the National Natural Science
Foundation of China (31371866 and 31571905), the Natural
Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LQ15C200004)
and Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo (2015A610262).
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