Ploidy level and molecular phylogenic relationship among novel Ipomoea interspecific hybrids

Cao, Qinghe; Tang, Jun; Li, Ang; Grüneberg, Wolfgang J.; Huamani, K.; Ma, Daifu

doi:10.17221/172/2013-cjgpb

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“…And more important is that some sweetpotato cultivars were bred through hexaploid I. trifida (Zhang et al 1999;Fu et al, 2000;Liu et al, 2009). Recently, the diploid I. trifida used in breeding and made important progress (Cao et al, 2014). But the hexaploid I. trifida cross with sweetpotato more directly.…”

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Comparative transcriptome to reveal the drought tolerance mechanism in hexaploid <i>Ipomoea trifida</i>

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Hexaploid Ipomoea trifida (I. trifida), a wild relative of sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.], has plentiful superior genes and a variety of anti-adversity characteristics genetically, and used as a distant hybridization materials in sweetpotato breeding. However, insufficient transcriptomic and genomic resources of hexaploid I. trifida are available for understanding the molecular mechanism underlying drought tolerance. In this study, we are the first to report a reference transcriptome using leaf, stem and root tissues under drought-stressed condition from hexaploid I. trifida, which is helpful to generate a large number of transcripts associated with drought tolerance for gene discovery. In this study, a total of 191,231, 226,262, and 171,841 contigs with a mean length of 1,100, 1,038 and 1,106 bp were obtained from the three tissues, respectively. In our assembled sequences, 62.38%, 50.08% and 47.76% of all contigs in the three tissues could be annotated to the nr database. Based on the Gene ontology (GO) analysis, 39,193, 49,997 and 34,887 contigs in leaves, roots and stems could assign with GO terms, and totaled 69 contigs up-regulated expression. In the annotated genes, we identified six transcription factors and two genes involved in drought-stress responses. Furthermore, the gene expression profiles of 15 putative genes associated with drought tolerance were analyzed to verify the reliability of the transcriptome using quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR). These results provide a foundation for understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying drought stress of hexaploid I. trifida, and promoting its further utilization in sweetpotato breeding.

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confidence: 99%