Affiliation:
1. USDA-ARS, US Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center, 21881 North Cardon Lane, Maricopa, AZ 85138, USA
Abstract
Brassica carinata has received considerable attention as a renewable biofuel crop for semi-arid zones due to its high oil content and polyunsaturated fatty acids contents. It is important to develop new drought-resistant cultivars of B. carinata production to expand its areas into more arid regions. The accumulation of leaf cuticular wax on plant surfaces is one mechanism that reduces non-stomatal water loss, thus increasing drought resistance in plants. To explore phenotypic variations in cuticular wax in B. carinata, leaf waxes were extracted and quantified from a diversity panel consisting of 315 accessions. The results indicate that the accessions have a wide range of total leaf wax content (289–1356 µg dm−2), wax classes, and their components. The C29 and C31 homologues of alkanes, C29 ketone homologue, C29 secondary alcohol, and C30 aldehyde were the most abundant leaf waxes extracted from B. carinata accessions. The high heritability values of these waxes point to the positive selection for high wax content during early generations of future B. carinata breeding programs. Positive correlation coefficients, combined with the effects of these waxes on leaf wax content accumulation, suggest that modifying specific wax content could increase the total wax content and enhance cuticle composition. The identified leaf wax content and compositions in B. carinata will lead to the future discovery of wax biosynthetic pathways, the dissection of its genetic regulatory networks, the identification of candidate genes controlling production of these waxes, and thus, develop and release new B. carinata drought-tolerant cultivars.
Funder
United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Subject
Plant Science,Ecology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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