Fine mapping and identification of CaTTG1, a candidate gene that regulates the hypocotyl anthocyanin accumulation in Capsicum annuum

Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is a typical self-pollinating crop with obvious heterosis in hybrids. Consequently, the use of morphological markers during the pepper seedling stage is crucial for pepper breeding. The color of hypocotyl is widely used as a phenotypic marker in crossing studies of pepper...

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Main Authors: Jin Wang, Yao Dai, Luzhao Pan, Ying Chen, Li Dai, Yanqing Ma, Xiaoxun Zhou, Wu Miao, Muhammad Rizwan Hamid, Xuexiao Zou, Feng Liu, Cheng Xiong
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author Jin Wang
Yao Dai
Luzhao Pan
Ying Chen
Li Dai
Yanqing Ma
Xiaoxun Zhou
Wu Miao
Muhammad Rizwan Hamid
Xuexiao Zou
Feng Liu
Cheng Xiong
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Yao Dai
Luzhao Pan
Ying Chen
Li Dai
Yanqing Ma
Xiaoxun Zhou
Wu Miao
Muhammad Rizwan Hamid
Xuexiao Zou
Feng Liu
Cheng Xiong
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description Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is a typical self-pollinating crop with obvious heterosis in hybrids. Consequently, the use of morphological markers during the pepper seedling stage is crucial for pepper breeding. The color of hypocotyl is widely used as a phenotypic marker in crossing studies of pepper. Pepper accessions generally have purple hypocotyls, which are mainly due to the anthocyanin accumulation in seedlings, and green hypocotyls are rarely observed in pepper. Here we reported the characterization of a green hypocotyl mutant of pepper, Cha1, which was identified from a pepper ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) mutant library. Fine mapping revealed that the causal gene, CaTTG1, belonging to the WD40 repeat family, controlled the green hypocotyl phenotype of the mutant. Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) confirmed that CaTTG1 regulated anthocyanin accumulation. RNA-seq data showed that expression of structural genes CaDFR, CaANS, and CaUF3GT in the anthocyanin biosynthetic pathway was significantly decreased in Cha1 compared to the wild type. Yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) experiments also confirmed that CaTTG1 activated the synthesis of anthocyanin structural genes by forming a MBW complex with CaAN1 and CaGL3. In summary, this study provided a green hypocotyl mutant of pepper, and the Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR (KASP) marker developed based on the mutation site of the underlying gene would be helpful for pepper breeding.
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spelling doaj-art-becbaf285cc1455ba29d5502c50e8f8c2025-08-20T02:40:06ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Horticultural Plant Journal2468-01412025-01-0111126427410.1016/j.hpj.2023.05.016Fine mapping and identification of CaTTG1, a candidate gene that regulates the hypocotyl anthocyanin accumulation in Capsicum annuumJin Wang0Yao Dai1Luzhao Pan2Ying Chen3Li Dai4Yanqing Ma5Xiaoxun Zhou6Wu Miao7Muhammad Rizwan Hamid8Xuexiao Zou9Feng Liu10Cheng Xiong11Engineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and New Varieties Breeding of Horticultural Crops, Key Laboratory for Vegetable Biology of Hunan Province, College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan 410000, ChinaEngineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and New Varieties Breeding of Horticultural Crops, Key Laboratory for Vegetable Biology of Hunan Province, College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan 410000, ChinaEngineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and New Varieties Breeding of Horticultural Crops, Key Laboratory for Vegetable Biology of Hunan Province, College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan 410000, ChinaEngineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and New Varieties Breeding of Horticultural Crops, Key Laboratory for Vegetable Biology of Hunan Province, College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan 410000, ChinaEngineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and New Varieties Breeding of Horticultural Crops, Key Laboratory for Vegetable Biology of Hunan Province, College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan 410000, ChinaEngineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and New Varieties Breeding of Horticultural Crops, Key Laboratory for Vegetable Biology of Hunan Province, College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan 410000, ChinaEngineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and New Varieties Breeding of Horticultural Crops, Key Laboratory for Vegetable Biology of Hunan Province, College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan 410000, ChinaHunan Xiangyan Seed Industry Co., LTD, Changsha, Hunan 410000, ChinaEngineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and New Varieties Breeding of Horticultural Crops, Key Laboratory for Vegetable Biology of Hunan Province, College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan 410000, ChinaEngineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and New Varieties Breeding of Horticultural Crops, Key Laboratory for Vegetable Biology of Hunan Province, College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan 410000, China; Corresponding authors.Engineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and New Varieties Breeding of Horticultural Crops, Key Laboratory for Vegetable Biology of Hunan Province, College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan 410000, China; Corresponding authors.Engineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and New Varieties Breeding of Horticultural Crops, Key Laboratory for Vegetable Biology of Hunan Province, College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan 410000, China; Corresponding authors.Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is a typical self-pollinating crop with obvious heterosis in hybrids. Consequently, the use of morphological markers during the pepper seedling stage is crucial for pepper breeding. The color of hypocotyl is widely used as a phenotypic marker in crossing studies of pepper. Pepper accessions generally have purple hypocotyls, which are mainly due to the anthocyanin accumulation in seedlings, and green hypocotyls are rarely observed in pepper. Here we reported the characterization of a green hypocotyl mutant of pepper, Cha1, which was identified from a pepper ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) mutant library. Fine mapping revealed that the causal gene, CaTTG1, belonging to the WD40 repeat family, controlled the green hypocotyl phenotype of the mutant. Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) confirmed that CaTTG1 regulated anthocyanin accumulation. RNA-seq data showed that expression of structural genes CaDFR, CaANS, and CaUF3GT in the anthocyanin biosynthetic pathway was significantly decreased in Cha1 compared to the wild type. Yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) experiments also confirmed that CaTTG1 activated the synthesis of anthocyanin structural genes by forming a MBW complex with CaAN1 and CaGL3. In summary, this study provided a green hypocotyl mutant of pepper, and the Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR (KASP) marker developed based on the mutation site of the underlying gene would be helpful for pepper breeding.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468014123001796PepperCaTTG1AnthocyaninHypocotyl colorFine-mapping
spellingShingle Jin Wang
Yao Dai
Luzhao Pan
Ying Chen
Li Dai
Yanqing Ma
Xiaoxun Zhou
Wu Miao
Muhammad Rizwan Hamid
Xuexiao Zou
Feng Liu
Cheng Xiong
Fine mapping and identification of CaTTG1, a candidate gene that regulates the hypocotyl anthocyanin accumulation in Capsicum annuum
Horticultural Plant Journal
Pepper
CaTTG1
Anthocyanin
Hypocotyl color
Fine-mapping
title Fine mapping and identification of CaTTG1, a candidate gene that regulates the hypocotyl anthocyanin accumulation in Capsicum annuum
title_full Fine mapping and identification of CaTTG1, a candidate gene that regulates the hypocotyl anthocyanin accumulation in Capsicum annuum
title_fullStr Fine mapping and identification of CaTTG1, a candidate gene that regulates the hypocotyl anthocyanin accumulation in Capsicum annuum
title_full_unstemmed Fine mapping and identification of CaTTG1, a candidate gene that regulates the hypocotyl anthocyanin accumulation in Capsicum annuum
title_short Fine mapping and identification of CaTTG1, a candidate gene that regulates the hypocotyl anthocyanin accumulation in Capsicum annuum
title_sort fine mapping and identification of cattg1 a candidate gene that regulates the hypocotyl anthocyanin accumulation in capsicum annuum
topic Pepper
CaTTG1
Anthocyanin
Hypocotyl color
Fine-mapping
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468014123001796
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