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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (35): 111-118.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2021-1144

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Effects of High Temperature Stress on Antioxidant Enzyme Activity and Gene Expression in Larvae of Silkworm Varieties with Different Tolerance

XIAO Yang(), LI Qingrong, XING Dongxu, YANG Qiong()   

  1. Sericulture & Agri-food Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Guangzhou 510610
  • Received:2021-11-29 Revised:2022-01-15 Online:2022-12-15 Published:2022-12-09
  • Contact: YANG Qiong E-mail:xiaoyang@gdaas.cn;yangqiong@gdaas.cn

Abstract:

The effects of high temperature environment on antioxidant enzyme activity and gene expression in hemolymph of silkworm were explored, which may provide reference for revealing the physiological and molecular adaptation mechanism of silkworm to high temperature environmental stress. The tolerant variety to high temperature 932G and sensitive variety HY were taken as the studied objects, and the changes of antioxidant enzyme activities and enzyme gene expression levels in the hemolymph of the 5th instar larvae under high temperature stress were measured by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR. The results showed that under 35℃ high temperature stress, the change trend of relative activities of SOD, CAT and GST in tolerant variety and sensitive variety were similar. The change ranges were all small in the early stage of stress, then increased significantly in the middle and late stages, and decreased significantly in the final stage of stress. The overall change trend was first increase then decrease. The relative expression levels of enzyme genes increased in varying degrees in the middle and late stages of stress, and decreased in the final stage of stress, which were basically consistent with the change trend of enzyme activities, but the change ranges among the varieties were different. The relative expression levels of BmSOD and most of BmGSTs genes increased significantly in tolerant variety, while that of BmCAT increased significantly in sensitive variety. In conclusion, the high temperature response trend of antioxidant enzymes SOD, CAT and GST in silkworm hemolymph are relatively consistent, and there are only differences in the change ranges among the varieties.

Key words: high temperature stress, tolerance, antioxidant enzyme activity, gene expression, Bombyx mori

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