Impact of nicotine pathway downregulation on polyamine biosynthesis and leaf ripening in tobacco.

Plant Direct
Greta NölkeStefan Schillberg

Abstract

Traditional breeding and molecular approaches have been used to develop tobacco varieties with reduced nicotine and secondary alkaloid levels. However, available low-alkaloid tobacco varieties have impaired leaf quality likely due to the metabolic consequences of nicotine biosynthesis downregulation. Recently, we found evidence that the unbalanced crosstalk between nicotine and polyamine pathways is involved in impaired leaf ripening of a low-alkaloid (LA) Burley 21 line having a mutation at the Nic1 and Nic2 loci, key biosynthetic regulators of nicotine biosynthesis. Since the Nic1 and Nic2 loci are comprised of several genes, all phenotypic changes seen in LA Burley 21 could be due to a mixture of genetics-based responses. Here, we investigated the commercial burley variety TN90 LC and its transgenic versions with only one downregulated gene, either putrescine methyl transferase (PMT-RNAi) or PR50-protein (PR50-RNAi). Nicotine levels of cured lamina of TN90 LC, TN90 PMT-RNAi and TN90 PR50-RNAi, were 70.5 ± 3.8, 2.4 ± 0.5, and 6.0 ± 1.1 mg/g dry weight, respectively. Low-alkaloid transgenic lines showed delayed leaf maturation and impaired leaf quality. We analyzed polyamine contents and ripening markers in wild-type TN90 cont...Continue Reading

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