Transcriptional Regulation of 10 Mitochondrial Genes in Different Tissues of NCa CMS System in Brassica napus L. and Their Relationship with Sterility

Wenliang Wei; Hanzhong Wang; Guihua Liu

doi:10.1016/S1673-8527(07)60008-3

Volume 34 Issue 1

Jan. 2007

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Transcriptional Regulation of 10 Mitochondrial Genes in Different Tissues of NCa CMS System in Brassica napus L. and Their Relationship with Sterility

doi: 10.1016/S1673-8527(07)60008-3

Key Lab for Genetics and Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, the Oil Crops Research Institute, CAAS, Wuhan 430062, China

Received Date: 2006-05-10
Accepted Date: 2006-06-13

Available Online: 2007-04-18

Publish Date: 2007-01-20

Abstract

Abstract

Northern blot analysis was conducted with mitochondrial RNA from seedling leaves, floral buds, and developing seeds of NCa CMS, maintainer line and fertile F₁ using ten mitochondrial genes as probes. The results revealed that 9 out of the 10 mitochondrial genes, except for atp6, showed no difference in different tissues of the corresponding materials of NCa CMS system and that they might be constitutively expressed genes. Eight genes, such as orf139, orf222, atp1, cox1, cox2, cob, rrn5S, and rrn26S, showed no difference among the three tissues of all the materials detected. So the expression of these eight genes was not regulated by nuclear genes and was not tissue-specific. The transcripts of atp9 were identical among different tissues, but diverse among different materials, indicating that transcription of atp9 was neither controlled by nuclear gene nor tissue-specific. Gene atp6 displayed similar transcripts with the same size among different tissues of all the materials but differed in abundance among tissues of corresponding materials and its expression might be tissue-specific under regulation of nuclear gene. Moreover, three transcripts of orf222 were detected in the floral buds of NCa cms and fertile F₁, but no transcript was detected in floral buds of the maintainer line. The transcription of orf139 was similar to that of orf222 but only two transcripts of 0.8 kb and 0.6 kb were produced. The atp9 probe detected a single transcript of 0.6 kb in NCa cms and in maintainer line and an additional transcript of 1.2 kb in fertile F₁. The relationship of expression of orf222, orf139, and atp9 with NCa sterility was discussed.
- cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS),
- mitochondrial gene expression,
- restorer gene,
- transcriptional regulation

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