Abstract
Cotton is an important agro-industrial crop providing raw material for the textile industry. Fiber length is the key factor that directly affects fiber quality. ADC, arginine decarboxylase, is the key rate-limiting enzyme in the polyamine synthesis pathway; whereas, there is no experimental evidence that ADC is involved in fiber development in cotton yet. Our transcriptome analysis of the fiber initiation material of Gossypium arboreum L. showed that the expression profile of GaADC2 was induced significantly. Here, GhADC2, the allele of GaADC2 in tetraploid upland cotton Gossypium hirsutum L., exhibited up-regulated expression pattern during fiber elongation in cotton. Levels of polyamine are correlated with fiber elongation; especially, the amount of putrescine regulated by ADC was increased. Scanning electron microscopy showed that the fiber length was increased with exogenous addition of an ADC substrate or product putrescine; whereas, the fiber density was decreased with exogenous addition of an ADC specific inhibitor. Next, genome-wide transcriptome profiling of fiber elongation with exogenous putrescine addition was performed to determine the molecular basis in Gossypium hirsutum. A total of 3163 differentially expressed genes were detected, which mainly participated in phenylpropanoid biosynthesis, fatty acid elongation, and sesquiterpenoid and triterpenoid biosynthesis pathways. Genes encoding transcription factors MYB109, WRKY1, and TCP14 were enriched. Therefore, these results suggested the ADC2 and putrescine involvement in the development and fiber elongation of G. hirsutum, and provides a basis for cotton fiber development research in future.
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