The Integration of the Metabolome and Transcriptome for Dendrobium nobile Lindl. in Response to Methyl Jasmonate

Daoyong Gong, Biao Li, Bin Wu, Deru Fu, Zesheng Li, Haobo Wei, Shunxing Guo, Gang Ding, Bochu Wang · 2023

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Daoyong Gong and co-authors dose a medicinal orchid with a plant stress hormone and watch its chemistry and genes respond, in a 2023 study. Dendrobium nobile, an endangered orchid of southwest China, makes prized alkaloids and polysaccharides with antiviral and immune effects. Methyl jasmonate is the plant kingdom's alarm signal, often used to provoke defensive chemistry. The team profiled both the plant's metabolites and its gene activity after exposure.

They found 377 changed metabolites, including dozens tied to the valuable polysaccharide, terpenoid, and alkaloid pathways. Over three thousand genes changed activity too, with roughly thirteen hundred switched on relative to controls. Matching the two layers shows which genes drive which chemical shifts. The work points growers toward hormone treatments that enrich the orchid's medicine, and geneticists toward the control switches worth breeding for.

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CREATORDaoyong Gong, Biao Li, Bin Wu, Deru Fu, Zesheng Li, Haobo Wei, Shunxing Guo, Gang Ding, Bochu Wang
YEAR2023
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE61 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10707931

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