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Identification and expression analysis of cold-regulated genes from the cold-hardy Citrus relative Poncirus trifoliata (L.) Raf.

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dc.creator Moore, Gloria A.
dc.creator Sahin-Cevik, Mehtap
dc.date 2006-08-31T21:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2020-10-06T09:44:02Z
dc.date.available 2020-10-06T09:44:02Z
dc.identifier 38d2d5cd-b68f-4cde-9eb3-bf5ad1f115f5
dc.identifier 10.1007/s11103-006-9005-2
dc.identifier https://avesis.sdu.edu.tr/publication/details/38d2d5cd-b68f-4cde-9eb3-bf5ad1f115f5/oai
dc.identifier.uri http://acikerisim.sdu.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/123456789/57557
dc.description Citrus is a cold-sensitive genus and most commercially important varieties of citrus are susceptible to freezes. On the other hand, Poncirus trifoliata (L.) Raf. is an interfertile Citrus relative that can tolerate temperatures as low as -26 degrees C when fully cold acclimated. Therefore, it has been used for improving cold tolerance in cold-sensitive commercial citrus rootstock varieties and in attempts to improve scion varieties. In this study, cDNA libraries were constructed from both 2-day cold-acclimated and from non-acclimated Poncirus seedlings using a subtractive hybridization method with the objective of identifying cold-regulated genes. A total of 192 randomly picked clones, 136 from the cold-induced library and 56 from the cold-repressed library, were sequenced. The majority of these clones showed sequence homology to previously identified cold-induced and/or environmental stress-regulated genes in Arabidopsis. In addition, some of them shared homology with cold and/or environmental stress-induced genes previously identified in other herbaceous and woody perennial plants and some showed no homology with sequences in GenBank. When these 192 cDNAs were analyzed by reverse northern blot with cold-acclimated and non-acclimated probes, 92 of the cDNAs displayed significantly increased expression, ranging from 2 to 49-fold, during cold acclimation; all 92 were from the cold-induced library. Surprisingly no clones displayed significantly repressed expression in response to cold. Analysis of a number of selected genes individually in northern blots of mRNA from cold-acclimated and non-acclimated plants largely confirmed the reverse northern analysis, verifying induction of expression of selected cDNAs in response to cold. The results showed that subtractive hybridization is an efficient method for identification of cold-induced genes in plants with limited sequence information available. This study also revealed that genes induced during cold acclimation of the cold-hardy citrus relative P. trifoliata are similar to those in Arabidopsis, indicating that similar pathways may be present and activated during cold acclimation in woody perennial plants.
dc.language eng
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.title Identification and expression analysis of cold-regulated genes from the cold-hardy Citrus relative Poncirus trifoliata (L.) Raf.
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article


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