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- Title
Combined Metabolomic and Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Allantoin Enhances Drought Tolerance in Rice.
- Authors
Lu, Shuai; Jia, Zichang; Meng, Xiangfeng; Chen, Yaoyu; Wang, Surong; Fu, Chaozhen; Yang, Lei; Zhou, Rong; Wang, Baohua; Cao, Yunying
- Abstract
Drought is a misfortune for agriculture and human beings. The annual crop yield reduction caused by drought exceeds the sum of all pathogens. As one of the gatekeepers of China's "granary", rice is the most important to reveal the key drought tolerance factors in rice. Rice seedlings of Nipponbare (Oryza sativa L. ssp. Japonica) were subjected to simulated drought stress, and their root systems were analyzed for the non-targeted metabolome and strand-specific transcriptome. We found that both DEGs and metabolites were enriched in purine metabolism, and allantoin accumulated significantly in roots under drought stress. However, few studies on drought tolerance of exogenous allantoin in rice have been reported. We aimed to further determine whether allantoin can improve the drought tolerance of rice. Under the treatment of exogenous allantoin at different concentrations, the drought resistant metabolites of plants accumulated significantly, including proline and soluble sugar, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) decreased and reached a significant level in 100 μmol L−1. To this end, a follow-up study was identified in 100 μmol L−1 exogenous allantoin and found that exogenous allantoin improved the drought resistance of rice. At the gene level, under allantoin drought treatment, we found that genes of scavenge reactive oxygen species were significantly expressed, including peroxidase (POD), catalase (CATA), ascorbate peroxidase 8 (APX8) and respiratory burst oxidase homolog protein F (RbohF). This indicates that plants treated by allantoin have better ability to scavenge reactive oxygen species to resist drought. Alternative splicing analysis revealed a total of 427 differentially expressed alternative splicing events across 320 genes. The analysis of splicing factors showed that gene alternative splicing could be divided into many different subgroups and play a regulatory role in many aspects. Through further analysis, we restated the key genes and enzymes in the allantoin synthesis and catabolism pathway, and found that the expression of synthetase and hydrolase showed a downward trend. The pathway of uric acid to allantoin is completed by uric acid oxidase (UOX). To find out the key transcription factors that regulate the expression of this gene, we identified two highly related transcription factors OsERF059 and ONAC007 through correlation analysis. They may be the key for allantoin to enhance the drought resistance of rice.
- Subjects
CHINA; DROUGHT tolerance; ALTERNATIVE RNA splicing; DROUGHT-tolerant plants; METABOLOMICS; REACTIVE oxygen species
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 22, p14172
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms232214172