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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2012, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (03): 745-750.

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Gene expression of the key enzymes controlling starch synthesis and metabolism in rice grain endosperm under effects of high temperature after anthesis.

ZHONG Lian-jin1, DONG Hu1, CAI Xiao-bo1, FENG Yan-ning1, REN Ping1, CHENG Fang-min2   

  1. 1School of Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325035, Zhejiang, China; 2College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China
  • Online:2012-03-18 Published:2012-03-18

Abstract: Taking an early-season indica cultivar ‘Jiazao 935’ whose grain quality was sensitive to temperature as test material, and by using artificial climatic chamber and real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR (FQ-PCR), this paper studied the relative expression amount and its dynamic changes of ten isoform genes of the key enzymes controlling starch synthesis and metabolism in rice grain endosperm, including sbe1, sbe3, and sbe4 of starch branching enzyme (SBE), isa1, isa2, isa3, and pul of starch debranching enzyme (DBE), and Wx, sss1, and sss2a of starch synthase (SS), at the mean daily temperature 22 and 32 ℃ after anthesis. There existed obvious differences in the expression patterns of these genes under the high temperature stress, and the expression patterns were isoform-dependent. The relative expression amount of sbe1 and sbe3 under high temperature decreased significantly, and both of the genes were the sensitive isoform genes of SBE to high temperature stress. Among the DBE genes, pul was the isoform gene with high expression level, being more sensitive to high temperature stress than isa1, isa2, and isa3. Among the SS genes, sss2a had a significantly lower relative expression amount than sss1 and Wx, but sss2a and sss1 were more sensitive to high temperature than Wx, suggesting that sss2a and sss1 could be the important genes that adjusted the starch structure in rice endosperm under high temperature stress, especially at the middle and late grain filling stages.