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ArticleBMC genomics2016

Comparative transcriptome analysis of Gastrodia elata (Orchidaceae) in response to fungus symbiosis to identify gastrodin biosynthesis-related genes.

Chi-Chu Tsai, Keh-Ming Wu, Tzen-Yuh Chiang, Chun-Yen Huang, Chang-Hung Chou, Shu-Ju Li, Yu-Chung Chiang

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Article in BMC genomics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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7 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Chi-Chu TsaiCrop Improvement Division, Kaohsiung District Agricultural Improvement Station, Pingtung, 900, Taiwan. tsaicc@mail.kdais.gov.tw.
Keh-Ming WuWelgene Biotech. Co., Ltd., Taipei, 115, Taiwan. kmwu@welgene.com.tw.
Tzen-Yuh ChiangDepartment of Life Science, Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, 701, Taiwan. tychiang@mail.ncku.edu.tw.
Chun-Yen HuangCrop Improvement Division, Kaohsiung District Agricultural Improvement Station, Pingtung, 900, Taiwan. f3359657@yahoo.com.tw.
Chang-Hung ChouResearch Center for Biodiversity, China Medical University, Taichung, 404, Taiwan. choumasa@mail.cmu.edu.tw.
Shu-Ju LiCrop Improvement Division, Kaohsiung District Agricultural Improvement Station, Pingtung, 900, Taiwan. gigi7366kimo@yahoo.com.tw.
Yu-Chung ChiangDepartment of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, 804, Taiwan. yuchung@mail.nsysu.edu.tw.
Improvement Service · GBChina Medical University · TWNational Cheng Kung University · TWNational Pingtung University of Science and Technology · TWNational Sun Yat-sen University · TWTaiGen Biotechnology (Taiwan) · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundGastrodia elata Blume (Orchidaceae) is an important Chinese medicine with several functional components. In the life cycle of G. elata, the orchid develops a symbiotic relationship with two compatible mycorrhizal fungi Mycena spp. and Armillaria mellea during seed germination to form vegetative propagation corm and vegetative growth to develop tubers, respectively. Gastrodin (p-hydroxymethylphenol-beta-D-glucoside) is the most important functional component in G. elata, and gastrodin significantly increases from vegetative propagation corms to tubers. To address the gene regulation mechanism in gastrodin biosynthesis in G. elata, a comparative analysis of de novo transcriptome sequencing among the vegetative propagation corms and tubers of G. elata and A. mellea was conducted using deep sequencing.

resultsTranscriptome comparison between the vegetative propagation corms and juvenile tubers of G. elata revealed 703 differentially expressed unigenes, of which 298 and 405 unigenes were, respectively up-regulated (fold-change ≥ 2, q-value < 0.05, the trimmed mean of M-values (TMM)-normalized fragments per kilobase of transcript per Million mapped reads (FPKM) > 10) and down-regulated (fold-change ≤ 0.5, q-value <0.05, TMM-normalized FPKM > 10) in juvenile tubers. After Gene Ontology (GO) annotation and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analysis, 112 up-regulated unigenes with KEGG Ortholog identifiers (KOids) or enzyme commission (EC) numbers were assigned to 159 isogroups involved in seventy-eight different pathways, and 132 down-regulated unigenes with KOids or EC numbers were assigned to 168 isogroups, involved in eighty different pathways. The analysis of the isogroup genes from all pathways revealed that the two unigenes TRINITY_DN54282_c0_g1 (putative monooxygenases) and TRINITY_DN50323_c0_g1 (putative glycosyltransferases) might participate in hydroxylation and glucosylation in the gastrodin biosynthetic pathway.

conclusionsThe gene expression of the two unique unigenes encoding monooxygenase and glycosyltransferase significantly increases from vegetative propagation corms to tubers, and the molecular basis of gastrodin biosynthesis in the tubers of G. elata is proposed.

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TranscriptomeAgaricalesBenzyl AlcoholsGastrodiaGene Expression Regulation, PlantGene OntologyGlucosidesHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingMolecular Sequence AnnotationMycorrhizaePlant TubersRNA, PlantSequence Analysis, RNASymbiosisBenzyl AlcoholsgastrodinGlucosidesRNA, Plant

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