文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Du Qing-guo ¹ ; Yang Juan ¹ ; Syed Muhammad Sadiq, Shah ¹ ; Yang Rong-xin ¹ ; Yu Jing-juan ² ; Li Wen-xue ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Inst Crop Sci, Natl Engn Lab Crop Mol Breeding, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China

2.China Agr Univ, Coll Biol Sci, State Key Lab Agrobiotechnol, Beijing 100193, Peoples R China

关键词： maize; genotype; nitrogen; RNA-seq; differentially expressed genes

期刊名称：JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE AGRICULTURE （ 影响因子：2.848； 五年影响因子：2.979 ）

ISSN： 2095-3119

年卷期： 2021 年 20 卷 8 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Although previous researches have greatly increased our general knowledge on plant responses to nitrogen (N) stress, a comprehensive understanding of the different responses in crop genotypes is still needed. This study evaluated 304 maize accessions for low-N tolerance under field conditions, and selected the low-N sensitive Ye478 and low-N tolerant Qi319 for further investigations. After a 5-day low-N treatment, the typical N-deficient phenotype with yellowing older leaves was observed in Ye478 but not in Qi319. After the 5-day low-N stress, 16 RNA libraries from leaf and root of Ye478 and Qi319 were generated. The differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in the root of Qi319 up-regulated by special N deficiency were mainly enriched in energy-related metabolic pathways, including tricarboxylic acid metabolic process and nicotinamide metabolic process. Consistent with yellowing older leaves only observed in Ye478, the special N deficiency-responsive DEGs related to thylakoid, chloroplast, photosynthetic membrane, and chloroplast stroma pathways were repressed by low-N stress in Ye478. A total of 216 transcription factors (TFs), including ZmNLP5, were identified as special N deficiency responsive TFs between Qi319 and Ye478, indicating the importance of transcriptional regulation of N stress-responsive pathway in different tolerance to low-N stress between crop genotypes. In addition, 15 miRNAs were identified as DEGs between Qi319 and Ye478. Taken together, this study contributes to the understanding of the genetic variations and molecular basis of low-N tolerance in maize.