Characterizing and Improving Traits for Resilient Crop Development

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15 May 2023

Recently, CRISPR-Cas9-based genome editing has been widely used for plant breeding. In our previous report, a tomato gene encoding hybrid proline-rich protein 1 (HyPRP1), a negative regulator of salt stress responses, has been edited using a CRISPR-Cas9 multiplexing approach that resulted in precise eliminations of its functional domains, proline-rich domain (PRD) and eight cysteine-motif (8CM). We subsequently demonstrated that eliminating the PRD domain of HyPRP1 in tomatoes conferred the highest level of salinity tolerance. In this study, we characterized the edited lines under several abiotic and biotic stresses to examine the possibility of multiple stress tolerance. Our data reveal that the 8CM removal variants of HK and the KO alleles of both HK and 15T01 cultivars exhibited moderate heat stress tolerance. Similarly, plants carrying either the domains of the PRD removal variant (PR1v1) or 8CM removal variants (PR2v2 and PR2v3) showed better germination under osmosis stress (up to 200 mM mannitol) compared to the WT control. Moreover, the PR1v1 line continuously grew after 5 days of water cutoff. When the edited lines were challenged with pathogenic bacteria of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pto) DC3000, the growth of the bacterium was significantly reduced by 2.0- to 2.5-fold compared to that in WT plants. However, the edited alleles enhanced susceptibility against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici, which causes fusarium wilt. CRISPR-Cas9-based precise domain editing of the SlHyPRP1 gene generated multi-stress-tolerant alleles that could be used as genetic materials for tomato breeding.

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Although susceptible WT-ADR27 had highest P. xanthi germination rate, ROS accumulation (black arrow) was found more frequently on the leaves of these plant as compared 4-11 and 4-14. ROS accumulation was also found in 4-11 and 4-14 which are CsaMLO8/11del and CsaMLO1A137N/8/11del mutants. However, ROS were accumulated in the P. xanthii mycelial growth site was detected in 4-11 and 4-14. Also, non-germinated spores (red arrow) were detected on mutant leaves on the contrary to WT.
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19 December 2022

Powdery mildews (PM) are common and severe pathogen groups that threaten plants, and PM resistance is complex and polygenic in cucumbers. Previously mlo-based resistance was reported in various plants, including cucumber, with generated loss-of CsaMLO function mutants. However, mlo-based resistance in cucumber is also complex and involves additional mechanisms such as hypersensitive response (HR) and papillae formation. For this reason, we focused on determining the mlo-based powdery mildew resistance mechanism in cucumber. CRISPR/Cas9 was used in the present study to generate loss-of-function mutants for CsaMLO1, CsaMLO8, and CsaMLO11 of PM susceptible ADR27 cucumber inbred lines and CsaMLO mutants were obtained and validated. Trypan Blue and DAB staining were performed to detect Podosphaera xanthii germination/penetration rates and accumulation of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS). Our results indicate that PM-susceptibility associated CsaMLOs in cucumber are negative regulators in different defense mechanisms against powdery mildew at early and late stages of infection. Further, the experiment results indicated that CsaMLO8 mutation-based resistance was associated with the pre-invasive response, while CsaMLO1 and CsaMLO11 could be negative regulators in the post-invasive defense response in cucumber against P. xanthii. Although the loss-of CsaMLO8 function confers the highest penetration resistance, CsaMLO1 and CsaMLO11 double mutations could be potential candidates for HR-based resistance against PM pathogen in cucumber. These results highlighted the crucial role of CRISPR/Cas9 to develop PM resistant cucumber cultivars, possessing strong pre-invasive defense with CsaMLO8 or post-invasive with CsaMLO1/CsaMLO11 mutations.

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The new models developed improved the statistical power, computational speed and accuracy of detecting candidate genes or genetic loci associated with trait of interest.
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Climate change across the globe has an impact on the occurrence, prevalence, and severity of plant diseases. About 30% of yield losses in major crops are due to plant diseases; emerging diseases are likely to worsen the sustainable production in the coming years. Plant diseases have led to increased hunger and mass migration of human populations in the past, thus a serious threat to global food security. Equipping the modern varieties/hybrids with enhanced genetic resistance is the most economic, sustainable and environmentally friendly solution. Plant geneticists have done tremendous work in identifying stable resistance in primary genepools and many times other than primary genepools to breed resistant varieties in different major crops. Over the last two decades, the availability of crop and pathogen genomes due to advances in next generation sequencing technologies improved our understanding of trait genetics using different approaches. Genome-wide association studies have been effectively used to identify candidate genes and map loci associated with different diseases in crop plants. In this review, we highlight successful examples for the discovery of resistance genes to many important diseases. In addition, major developments in association studies, statistical models and bioinformatic tools that improve the power, resolution and the efficiency of identifying marker-trait associations. Overall this review provides comprehensive insights into the two decades of advances in GWAS studies and discusses the challenges and opportunities this research area provides for breeding resistant varieties.

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