Published November 28, 2020 | Version v1
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Pod indehiscence in common bean is associated with the fine regulation of PvMYB26

Creators

  • 1. Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Ambientali, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, Ancona, Italy Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Müehlenberg, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
  • 2. Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Ambientali, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, Ancona, Italy
  • 3. Dipartimento di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Via E. De Nicola, Sassari, Italy
  • 4. Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Müehlenberg, Potsdam-Golm, Germany Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  • 5. Scuola di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali, Alimentari ed Ambientali, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, viale dell'Ateneo Lucano, Potenza, Italy
  • 6. Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Verona, Cà Vignal, Strada Le Grazie, Verona, Italy
  • 7. Plant Genetics Group, Agri-Food Research and Development Regional Service (SERIDA), Asturias, Spain
  • 8. Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of the Ministry of Education (MOE), Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
  • 9. Institute of Biosciences and Geosciences (IBG-2): Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
  • 10. Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Müehlenberg, Potsdam-Golm, Germany

Description

In legumes, pod shattering occurs when mature pods dehisce along the sutures, and detachment of the valves promotes seed dispersal. In Phaseolus vulgaris (L)., the major locus qPD5.1-Pv for pod indehiscence was identified recently. We developed a BC4/F4 introgression line population and narrowed the major locus down to a 22.5 kb region. Here, gene expression and a parallel histological analysis of dehiscent and indehiscent pods identified an AtMYB26 orthologue as the best candidate for loss of pod shattering, on a genomic region ~11 kb downstream of the highest associated peak. Based on mapping and expression data, we propose early and fine up-regulation of PvMYB26 in dehiscent pods. Detailed histological analysis establishes that pod indehiscence is associated with the lack of a functional abscission layer in the ventral sheath, and that the key anatomical modifications associated with pod shattering in common bean occur early during pod development. We finally propose that loss of pod shattering in legumes resulted from histological convergent evolution and that it is the result of selection at orthologous loci.

Notes

The study was part of the PhD research work of the first author (VD) and he is grateful to the Doctoral School of the Polytechnic University of Marche (UNIVPM) and to the Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-2) that co-funded the PhD scholarship. This work was supported by the BRESOV project, funded from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 774244, the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR, Italian Government; grant number RBFR13IDFM_001, FIRB Project 2013), and the Università Politecnica delle Marche. ARF and SA acknowledge the European Union project PlantaSyst (SGA-CSA no. 664621 and no. 739582 under FPA no. 664620).

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European Commission
BRESOV - Breeding for Resilient, Efficient and Sustainable Organic Vegetable production 774244