Galphimia spp. is popularly used in Mexican traditional medicine. Some populations of Galphimia exert anxiolytic and sedative effects due to the presence of the modified triterpenoids galphimines. However, the galphimine synthesis pathway has not yet been elucidated. Hence, in this study, a comparative transcriptome analysis between two contrasting populations of Galphimia spp., a galphimine-producer, and a non-galphimine-producer, is performed using RNA-Seq in the Illumina Next Seq 550 platform to identify putative candidates genes that encode enzymes of this metabolic pathway. Transcriptome functional annotation was performed using the Blast2GO in levels of gene ontology. For differential expression analysis, edgeR, pheatmap, and Genie3 library were used. To validate transcriptome data, qPCR was conducted. In producer and non-producer plants of both populations of Galphimia spp., most of the transcripts were grouped in the Molecular Function level of gene ontology. A total of 680 differentially expressed transcripts between producer and non-producer plants were detected. In galphimine-producer plants, a larger number of highly expressed transcripts related to acyclic and polycyclic terpene synthesis were identified. As putative candidate genes involved in the galphimine synthesis pathway, P450 family members and enzymes with kinase activity were identified.
El cultivo de Phaseolus vulgaris L. se encuentra muy difundido en el mundo. La transformación genética vía Agrobacterium tumefaciens constituye una alternativa en esta especie para la obtención de cultivares con tolerancia o resistencia a condiciones ambientales desfavorables. Sin embargo, la condición cultivar dependiente y la baja regeneración del tejido transformado en los protocolos establecidos para P. vulgaris, han limitado el empleo de esta tecnología a un grupo reducido de cultivares. El objetivo de este trabajo fue regenerar brotes a partir de tejido transformado en P. vulgaris cv. 'ICA Pijao’ y 'BAT 93’. Se determinó el efecto de la concentración de la suspensión bacteriana, la infiltración por vacío, el periodo de co-cultivo sobre la regeneración de brotes. Además, se determinó la efectividad de la geneticina y el glufosinato de amonio durante la etapa de selección en la regeneración de brotes a partir de explantes inoculados con A. tumefaciens. Los explantes ½ NC-1 inoculados con una suspensión bacteriana ajustada a una densidad óptica de 0,1, sin infiltración con vacío y mantenidos por tres días en co-cultivo presentaron la mejor respuesta de regeneración. La geneticina y el glufosinato de amonio fueron efectivos para la selección de brotes. La regeneración de brotes a partir de tejido transformado vía A. tumefaciens en P. vulgaris cv. 'ICA Pijao' y 'BAT 93', no descrita en la literatura científica, resulta importante para su posterior aplicación en programas de mejoramiento genéticos de esta especie.
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