文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：New insight into the molecular mechanism of colour differentiation among floral segments in orchids

作者：Li, Bai-Jun[1] Zheng, Bao-Qiang[1] Wang, Jie-Yu[2] Tsai, Wen-Chieh[3,4] Lu, Hsiang-Chia[5] Zou, Long-Hai[1,6] Wan, Xiao[1,7] Zhang, Di-Yang[5] Qiao, Hong-Juan[1] Liu, Zhong-Jian[5,8] Wang, Yan[1]

第一作者：Li, Bai-Jun

通信作者：Wang, Y[1];Liu, ZJ[2];Liu, ZJ[3]

机构：[1]Chinese Acad Forestry, Res Inst Forestry, State Key Lab Tree Genet & Breeding, Beijing 100091, Peoples R China;[2]Chinese Acad Sci, South China Bot Garden, Key Lab Plant Resources Conservat & Sustainable U, Guangzhou 510650, Peoples R China;[3]Natl Cheng Kung Univ, Inst Trop Plant Sci & Microbiol, Tainan 701, Taiwan;[4]Natl Cheng Kung Univ, Orchid Res & Dev Ctr, Tainan 701, Taiwan;[5]Fujian Agr & Forestry Univ, Coll Landscape Architecture, Key Lab Natl Forestry & Grassland Adm Orchid Cons, Fuzhou 350002, Peoples R China;[6]Zhejiang A&F Univ, State Key Lab Subtrop Silviculture, Linan 311300, Peoples R China;[7]Zhejiang Acad Agr Sci, Res & Dev Ctr Flower, Hangzhou 311202, Peoples R China;[8]South China Agr Univ, Coll Forestry & Landscape Architecture, Guangzhou 510642, Peoples R China

年份：2020

卷号：3

期号：1

外文期刊名：COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY

收录：;Scopus(收录号：2-s2.0-85081243024);WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000518638500004)】；

基金：We are grateful to Dr. Li-Wei Chu (Chinese Academy of Forestry) for help with experiments. This work was funded by "The import of important parents of Cattleya and targeted breeding technology of lip" (Grant No. 2014-4-15).

语种：英文

摘要：Li et al. provide insights on the color patterning process during flower development. They identify pigment components of the perianths and the lip segments in the Orchidaceae flowers and use transcriptome profiling and functional assays to identify genes involved in pigment biosynthesis and spatiotemporal specificity. An unbalanced pigment distribution among the sepal and petal segments results in various colour patterns of orchid flowers. Here, we explored this type of mechanism of colour pattern formation in flowers of the Cattleya hybrid 'KOVA'. Our study showed that pigment accumulation displayed obvious spatiotemporal specificity in the flowers and was likely regulated by three R2R3-MYB transcription factors. Before flowering, RcPAP1 was specifically expressed in the epichile to activate the anthocyanin biosynthesis pathway, which caused substantial cyanin accumulation and resulted in a purple-red colour. After flowering, the expression of RcPAP2 resulted in a low level of cyanin accumulation in the perianths and a pale pink colour, whereas RcPCP1 was expressed only in the hypochile, where it promoted alpha-carotene and lutein accumulation and resulted in a yellow colour. Additionally, we propose that the spatiotemporal expression of different combinations of AP3- and AGL6-like genes might participate in KOVA flower colour pattern formation.