Day length dependent restructuring of the leaf transcriptome and metabolome in potato genotypes with contrasting tuberisation phenotypes

Wayne L. Morris, Robert D. Hancock, Laurence J. M. Ducreux, Jenny A. Morris, Muhammad Usman, Susan R. Verrall, Sanjeev K. Sharma, Glenn Bryan, James W. McNicol, Pete E. Hedley, Mark A. Taylor (Lead / Corresponding author)

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    Abstract

    Recent advances have defined some of the components of photoperiodic
    signalling that lead to tuberization in potato including orthologues of FLOWERING LOCUS T (StSP6A) and CYCLING DOF FACTOR (StCDF1). The aim of the current study is to investigate the molecular basis of permissive tuber initiation under long days in Solanum tuberosum Neo-Tuberosum by comparative analysis with an obligate short-day S.?tuberosum
    ssp. Andigena accession. We show that the Neo-Tuberosum accession, but
    not the Andigena, contains alleles that encode StCDF1 proteins modified
    in the C-terminal region, likely to evade long day inhibition of StSP6A expression. We also identify an allele of StSP6A
    from the Neo-Tuberosum accession, absent in the Andigena, which is
    expressed under long days. Other leaf transcripts and metabolites that
    show different abundances in tuberizing and non-tuberizing samples were
    identified adding detail to tuberization-associated processes. Overall,
    the data presented in this study highlight the subtle interplay between
    components of the clock-CONSTANS-StSP6A axis which collectively may
    interact to fine-tune the timing of tuberization.
    © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1351-1363
    Number of pages13
    JournalPlant, Cell & Environment
    Volume37
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2013

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