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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (12): 70-79.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2023-0114

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Reduction of As Accumulation by Heterologous Expression of Halomonas Peripheral Phosphate-binding Protein Gene PBP in Transgenic Tobaccos

HUANG Renquan1,2(), YUAN Ting3, SONG Lala4, QIN Lijun1()   

  1. 1 Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Germplasm Innovation in Mountainous Region, Ministry of Education/ Institute of Agro-Bioengineering and College of Life Sciences, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025
    2 College of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou 570228
    3 Guizhou Vocational College of Agriculture, Guiyang 550014
    4 Institute of Pepper Science, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang 550006
  • Received:2023-02-23 Revised:2023-05-15 Online:2024-04-25 Published:2024-04-22

Abstract:

In order to explore the biological function of PBP gene in transgenic tobaccos and select the low arsenic (As) accumulation parent tobacco germplasm, taking T2 generation seeds of transgenic tobacco with PBP gene and wild-type tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum K326) seeds as materials, Real-time PCR was used to study the spatial and temporal expression profile of exogenous PBP in transgenic tobaccos, and the activities of antioxidant enzymes (AOEs) in transgenic tobacco lines under As stress were also determined. AOEs activity showed that SOD and POD activities reached the maximum value of 80.25 U/g and 152.02 U/g in CK plants at 5 d after As stress, which were significantly higher than those in transgenic plants. Also, H2O2 and MDA contents in CK plants were significantly higher than those in transgenic plants at the later stage of As stress (3-5 d). Additionally, at 7 d and 14 d after stress, the content of As in transgenic tobacco plants was significantly reduced. Based on the expression profiling of ion transporter genes, the results showed that As stress not only induced significant up-regulation of PBP in transgenic plants, but also caused significant up-regulation of channel protein genes such as HAK1 and PHT4 in transgenic and CK plants, and the average expression levels of HAK1 and PHT4 in CK were 1.5 and 3.75 times of that in transgenic plants. The introduction of exogenous PBP gene can effectively reduce the accumulation of As in transgenic tobaccos.

Key words: Halomonas, periplasmic phosphate-binding protein, PBP gene, transgenic tobacco, low-As accumulation