Affiliation:
1. Flower Research Institute of Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming 650205, China
2. Fujian Forestry Science and Technology Experimental Center, Zhangzhou 363600, China
3. National Engineering Technology Research Center for Ornamental Horticulture, No. 2238 Beijing Road, Kunming 650204, China
Abstract
Leaf color mutants (LCMs) are important resources for studying diverse metabolic processes such as chloroplast biogenesis and differentiation, pigments’ biosynthesis and accumulation, and photosynthesis. However, in Dendrobium officinale, LCMs are yet to be fully studied and exploited due to the unavailability of reliable RGs (reference genes) for qRT-PCR (quantitative real-time reverse transcription PCR) normalization. Hence, this study took advantage of previously released transcriptome data to select and evaluate the suitability of ten candidate RGs, including Actin (Actin), polyubiquitin (UBQ), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), elongation factor 1-α (EF1α), β-tubulin (β-TUB), α-tubulin (α-TUB), 60S ribosomal protein L13-1 (RPL13AD), aquaporin PIP1-2 (PIP1-2), Intima protein (ALB3) and Cyclin (CYCB1-2) for normalizing leaf color-related genes’ expression levels via qRT-PCR. Stability rankings analysis via common software Best-Keeper, GeNorm, and NormFinder disclosed that all ten genes met the requirements of RGs. Of them, EF1α exhibited the highest stability and was selected as the most reliable. The reliability and accuracy of EF1α were confirmed through qRT-PCR analysis of fifteen chlorophyll pathway-related genes. The expression patterns of these genes via EF1α normalization were consistent with the results by RNA-Seq. Our results offer key genetic resources for the functional characterization of leaf color-related genes and will pave the way for molecular dissection of leaf color mutations in D. officinale.
Funder
Yunnan Province Science and Technology Department Technology Talent and Platform Program
Green Food Brand-Build a Special Project
Major science and technology project in Yunnan Province
Yunnan Province Seed Industry Joint Laboratory Project
Subject
Genetics (clinical),Genetics
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