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Modulation of BELL transcription factors balance as a tool for tuberisation strengthening in selected potato cultivars
Zounková, Andrea ; Mašková, Petra (advisor) ; Fischer, Lukáš (referee)
Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the third most important crop in terms of human consumption. Hence understanding regulatory mechanisms controlling tuber initiation is significant not only from a theoretical but also practical point of view. Tuberization of S. tuberosum is a complex morphogenic process regulated by both, environmental conditions and inner plant status. Environmental conditions regulating the onset of tuberization have been known for a long time, but the molecular basis of tuber initiation has only recently been discovered, in particular using wild subspecies S. tuberosum subsp. andigena. BELL transcription factors are among the important components of the regulatory signalling network. The aim of this study was to modulate balance between the BELL transcription factors that induce and repress tuberization towards strengthening of tuber induction using two cultivars of Solanum tuberosum subsp. tuberosum, cv. Kamýk, resp. cv. Korela. To achieve this, transgenic lines carrying construct containing a part of coding sequence StBEL11, resp. StBEL29 in antisense orientation (AS) under control of constitutive promoters and lines carrying complete sequences of StBEL5 and StPTB6 genes under control of their native promoters were derived. We used the StBEL11 and StBEL29 AS constructs with the aim to...
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Modulation of BELL transcription factors balance as a tool for tuberisation strengthening in selected potato cultivars
Zounková, Andrea ; Mašková, Petra (advisor) ; Fischer, Lukáš (referee)
Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the third most important crop in terms of human consumption. Hence understanding regulatory mechanisms controlling tuber initiation is significant not only from a theoretical but also practical point of view. Tuberization of S. tuberosum is a complex morphogenic process regulated by both, environmental conditions and inner plant status. Environmental conditions regulating the onset of tuberization have been known for a long time, but the molecular basis of tuber initiation has only recently been discovered, in particular using wild subspecies S. tuberosum subsp. andigena. BELL transcription factors are among the important components of the regulatory signalling network. The aim of this study was to modulate balance between the BELL transcription factors that induce and repress tuberization towards strengthening of tuber induction using two cultivars of Solanum tuberosum subsp. tuberosum, cv. Kamýk, resp. cv. Korela. To achieve this, transgenic lines carrying construct containing a part of coding sequence StBEL11, resp. StBEL29 in antisense orientation (AS) under control of constitutive promoters and lines carrying complete sequences of StBEL5 and StPTB6 genes under control of their native promoters were derived. We used the StBEL11 and StBEL29 AS constructs with the aim to...
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Tuber induction in spontaneously tuberizing potato line: the role of saccharides and mobile transcripts
Stupecká, Lenka ; Mašková, Petra (advisor) ; Fischer, Lukáš (referee)
Potato is one of the most important agricultural crops and there is an attempt to increase and improve yields of tubers, among other things, by elucidation of the mechanisms that regulate the process of tuber induction. Potato tuberization is a morphogenetic process in which the tubers are formed from the underground parts of the stem - stolons. The correct timing of this process is controlled by a complex regulatory network and influenced by many internal and external factors. Under favourable conditions, an inductive signal is generated in the leaves and it is transported to the stolon by a "phloem information superhighway" driven by carbohydrates flow. The signal triggers cell division, expansion, and changes in the cell growth orientation in the stolon. The development of tubers is influenced by number of biochemical and morphological processes driven by a regulatory network of genes that are expressed in different parts of plants. This work was focused on Solanum tuberosum, Lada cultivar and its derived D69 mutant line with lacking isoform of manganese-stabilizing protein (MSP), which is so far the only dissimilarity identified under all tested conditions. I aimed to map the processes related to the production of carbohydrates in leaves (photosynthetic characteristics - rate of photosynthesis...
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