Browsing by Author "Lillo-Carmona, Victoria"

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    NAC072 Interacts with HB12, HAT9, and MYBR1 in a Temporal Regulatory Network Controlling Peach Fruit Development
    (2023) Nunez-Lillo, Gerardo; Zabala, Jose; Lillo-Carmona, Victoria; Alvarez, Jose Miguel; Pedreschi, Romina; Meneses, Claudio
    Fruit development is a complex process that involves the interplay of different biological processes carefully coordinated to control fruit quality traits. The peach fruit development consists in four recognized growth stages (S1-S4). The second stage (S2) is characterized by the endocarp hardening process and is followed by the second exponential growth phase (S3), where an increase in fruit size is produced by a rapid cell expansion. A nectarine genotype incapable of ripening and described as a slow ripening phenotype was identified and selected as a good model for studying peach fruit development. Slow ripening fruit remained firm, green, and exhibited no rise in CO2 or ethylene production rates blocking fruit development at S3 stage. The transcription factor NAC072 has been proposed as a key regulatory element involved in both the slow ripening and the harvest date phenotypes. However, the regulatory mechanisms by which NAC072 produces these phenotypic changes are still unknown. Using a transcriptomic approach between normal and slow ripening individuals with a transcription factor-gene target interaction database, a NAC072 regulatory network was constructed, identifying putative direct and indirect NAC072 fruit development-related elements. Three transcription factors were identified along with NAC072 in early stages of fruit development, two homeobox-leucine zippers (HB12 and HAT9), and one MYB transcription factor (MYBR1). In addition, we determined that the NAC072 transcriptional regulatory network promotes phenylpropanoids biosynthesis and cell wall remodeling to develop fruit growth, seed development, and softening, probably through hormonal signaling pathways involving abscisic acid and gibberellic acid.
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    Transcriptome and Gene Regulatory Network Analyses Reveal New Transcription Factors in Mature Fruit Associated with Harvest Date in Prunus persica
    (2022) Nunez-Lillo, Gerardo; Perez-Reyes, Wellasmin; Riveros, Anibal; Lillo-Carmona, Victoria; Rothkegel, Karin; Miguel Alvarez, Jose; Blanco-Herrera, Francisca; Pedreschi, Romina; Campos-Vargas, Reinaldo; Meneses, Claudio
    Harvest date is a critical parameter for producers and consumers regarding agro-industrial performance. It involves a pleiotropic effect controlling the development of other fruit quality traits through finely controlling regulatory mechanisms. Fruit ripening is a process in which various signals and biological events co-occur and are regulated by hormone signaling that produces the accumulation/degradation of multiple compounds. However, the regulatory mechanisms that control the hormone signaling involved in fruit development and ripening are still unclear. To investigate the issue, we used individuals with early, middle and late harvest dates from a peach segregating population to identify regulatory candidate genes controlling fruit quality traits at the harvest stage and validate them in contrasting peach varieties for this trait. We identified 467 and 654 differentially expressed genes for early and late harvest through a transcriptomic approach. In addition, using the Arabidopsis DAP-seq database and network analysis, six transcription factors were selected. Our results suggest significant hormonal balance and cell wall composition/structure differences between early and late harvest samples. Thus, we propose that higher expression levels of the transcription factors HB7, ERF017 and WRKY70 in early harvest individuals would induce the expression of genes associated with the jasmonic acid pathway, photosynthesis and gibberellins inhibition. While on the other hand, the high expression levels of LHY, CDF3 and NAC083 in late harvest individuals would promote the induction of genes associated with abscisic acid biosynthesis, auxins and cell wall remodeling.