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Identification and genetic analysis of EMS-mutagenized wheat mutants conferring lesion-mimic premature aging

BMC Genetics volume 21, Article number: 88 (2020) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

Lesion-mimic and premature aging (lmpa) mutant lmpa1 was identified from the ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS) mutant library in the bread wheat variety Keda 527 (KD527) background. To reveal the genetic basis of lmpa1 mutant, phenotypic observations and analyses of chlorophyll content and photosynthesis were carried out in lmpa1, KD527 and their F1 and F2 derivatives. Further, bulked segregation analysis (BSA) in combination with a 660 K SNP array were conducted on the F2 segregation population of lmpa1/Chinese spring (CS) to locate the lmpa1 gene.

Results

Most agronomic traits of lmpa1 were similar to those of KD527 before lesion-like spots appeared. Genetic analysis indicated that the F1 plants from the crossing of lmpa1 and KD527 exhibited the lmpa phenotype and the F2 progenies showed a segregation of normal (wild type, WT) and lmpa, with the ratios of lmpa: WT = 124:36(χ2 = 1.008 < =3.841), indicating that lmpa is a dominant mutation. The combination of BSA and the SNP array analysis of CS, lmpa1 and lmpa1/CS F2 WT pool (50 plants) and lmpa pool (50 plants) showed that polymorphic SNPs were enriched on chromosome 5A, within a region of 30–40 Mb, indicating that the wheat premature aging gene Lmpa1 was probably located on the short arm of chromosome 5A.

Conclusions

EMS-mutagenized mutant lmpa1 deriving from elite wheat line KD527 conferred lmpa. Lmpa phenotype of lmpa1 mutant is controlled by a single dominant allele designated as Lmpa1, which affected wheat growth and development and reduced the thousand grain weight (tgw) of single plant in wheat. The gene Lmpa1 was tentatively located within the region of 30–40 Mb near to the short arm of chromosome 5A.

Background

Lesion-like mutants (llm) can spontaneously form spots on leaves, sheaths, or whole plants without significant damage, stress, or external pathogen infection [1]. The phenotype of llm is very similar to the hypersensitivity response (programmed cell death, PCD) after infection with pathogens [2]. Lesion-like spots (lls) formation is controlled by specific genes and/or affected by certain environmental conditions. They may be mostly caused by cell death and partially be correlated with pigment accumulation [3]. Previous researches [4] indicated that the mechanism of the lesion formation is very complicated because they may be controlled by genes related to disease resistance, regulation of death, and basic metabolic enzymes. Both signal molecules in plant defense to diseases and in environmental responses also play important role on the formation of lls.

In recent years, ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS) has been widely used to induce mutants with different agronomic traits in crops because it has the advantages of higher point mutation, fewer chromosomal aberrations, and easier screening of mutants over other methods [5,6,7,8]. EMS is a useful tool for improving particular agronomic traits, breeding new varieties, and screening elite germplasms [9]. Mutant germplasms induced by EMS can be effectively used to mine new genes, promote functional genomics studies, and accelerate breeding program [10].

To date, llm have been reported in corn [11], Arabidopsis [12], barley [13], and rice [14]. In recent years, wheat lls have been gradually found. For example, Geng [15] mapped a new wheat spot-like mutation gene lm3. Li et al. [16] found that wheat white spot mutation I30 was controlled by a pair of recessive nuclear genes which were located on wheat chromosome 6D by using of BSA method and 660 K SNP array technology. Yao et al. [17] obtained a LLM from the crossing between normal parents Yanzhan 1 and Zaosui 30 and the LLM was controlled by two recessive genes named lm1 and lm2.M66 [18], C591 (M8) [19], AIM9 [20], Ning7840 [21], HLP [22], LF2010 [23] and other wheat lesion mutants have also been reported.

Senescence is the final stage of plant development and an active process of extracting nutrients from old tissues. Premature aging can shorten the growth stage of crops, cause premature senility of functional organs earlier before grain filling [24], thus affecting crop yield and quality [25]. Many reports and in-depth studies on premature senescence in rice have been documented to date [26]. The gene of leaf premature senescence mutant wss1 was located within 1200 kb near the centromere region of the long arm of chromosome 11 in rice [27]. Signs of senescence began to appear in the rice premature senescence mutant es4 in about 60 days, due to the loss of function of the calcium-dependent protein kinase OsCPK12 [28]. The 3-bp deletion in the gene of WLS5 also leads to premature senescence in rice [29]. The early senescence mutations esl2 [30], esl3 [31], esl4 [32], esl5 [33], and esl6 [34] selected by the Rice Research Institute of Southwest University by EMS mutation were controlled by mononuclear genes. Xiao et al. [35] located the mutant gene of premature aging mutant zs in the 600 kb region on the short arm of rice chromosome 12. The rice premature senescence gene PLS2 was preliminarily determined to encode a glycosyltransferase by Wang et al. [36]. In recent years, wheat premature senescence has also been reported. Two additive QTLs on chromosomes 3A and 3B detected by Wei [37] were related to wheat early senescence indicators and six physiological traits related to premature senescence. An additive QTL controlling the flag leaf senescence was located between markers gwm526 and gwm382 on the long arm of chromosome 2A [38]. The leaf senescence gene els1 was located on the chromosome of 2BS by bulked segregant RNA sequencing (BSR-Seq) method in common wheat [39]. T. Kajimura [40] used homologous cloning to obtain genes related to wheat aging, TaSAG1-TaSAG9, TaSAG1, TaSAG3, TaSAG4, and TaSAG5 are genes related to amino acid metabolism, TaSAG7 and TaSAG8 are genes related to fatty acid metabolism, and TaSAG9 is related to sugar and genes related to ribose metabolism, TaSAG2 and TaSAG6 are genes used to encode seed proteins.

This study reports the isolation of wheat lesion-like premature senescence mutants by EMS mutagenesis, and the genetic analysis of these mutants. The chromosomal localization of the premature aging gene was performed by the analysis of the segregating populations. This study generated germplasm resource for future cloning of new genes related to early senescence and exploring the regulatory mechanism of early senescence in wheat. It also laid a foundation for breeding new wheat varieties conferring resistance to premature senescence.

Results

Generation and identification of lmpa mutant

Multi-year agronomy comprehensive identification was used to select the lmpa mutant from the M6 generation induced by EMS in KD527 (Fig. 1a, c), which was named lmpa1 (Fig. 1b, d). The agronomic identifications were conducted in KD527 and lmpa1 and shown in Table 1. As can be seen from Table 1 and Fig. 1, the agronomic characters of lmpa1 is similar to KD527 in plant height (ph), flag leaf length (fll), ear length (el), number of grains per ear (ngpe) and other agronomic traits. The process of the formation of lmpa in lmpa1 was observed throughout its whole growth period. lmpa1 grows normally at seedling stage. After flag leaf picking, it appeared lls before senescence. Its leaves present some brown-yellow round disease spots which can gradually enlarge and expand. After heading, the disease spots quickly spread to the leaf sheath, stem and spike of lmpa1. With the extension of growth period, lmpa1 emerges more and more disease spots over the whole plant and dried up even died during the filling stage (Fig. 2). In addition, the number of mutant individuals increases obviously after rain during grain filling and they get worse than before rain. The reason is unclear yet.

Fig. 1
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Phenotypes of the WT KD527 (a, c) and the mutants lmpa1 (b, d) during late heading (a, b) and mid-late filling stage (c, d), respectively. Note: a: WT KD527 grows normally during late heading stage; b: A small amount of brown spots can be found on the leaves of mutant lmpa1 at the late heading stage; c: KD527 grows normally at mid-late filling stage stage; d: Lls expand quickly to the leaves, stems and even spikes of lmpa1and premature aging appears during mid-late filling stage

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Table 1 Statistical analysis of lmpa traits in mutants and their hybrid progenies
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Fig. 2
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Formation, expansion and spread of lmpa of lmpa1 mutant at different growth stages after heading in 2019. Note: a: lmpa1 single plants have not been found lls on 23th April; b:lmpa1 leaves have a small amount of brown spots on 24th April; c: lmpa1 leaves have a significant increase in brown spots on 26th April; d: A large number of brown-yellow spots spread on the stem of lmpa1 on 30th April; e: lls on the leaf spread to the leaf sheath, and a few brown-yellow spots appeared on the stem of lmpa1 on 4th May; f:The brown and yellow spots on the stems continued to increase, and a few brown and yellow spots appeared on the spikes of lmpa1 on 16th May; g: lmpa1 leaves began to dry, and the brown and yellow spots on the spikes continued to increase on 20th May; h: lmpa1 leaves and stems were withered, part spikes were drying up on 24th May

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Genetic analysis of lmpa mutant

In order to clarify the inheritance and genetic effects of the lmpa traits, the single plant lmpa traits and other agronomic traits of lmpa1, KD527 and CS crosses F1 and F2 were investigated. The results were statistically shown in Tables 1 and 2.

Table 2 Agronomic traits of KD527, lmpa1 and their hybrids
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As can be seen from Table 1 and Fig. 3, the KD527 plants behaved normally, lmpa1 suffered from plaque-like premature aging. The plants of the constructed hybrid F1 population all showed lesion-like premature senescence characters. The plants from the F2 population showed two types of premature senescence plants and normal plants. Chi-square test showed that Lmpa1 gene is dominant and conforms to the separation ratio of single gene 3:1.

Fig. 3
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Phenotype of spikes (a) and flag leaves (b) of KD527(a) and lmpa1(e) and the F1 (b) and F2 (c, d) offspring of lmpa1/KD527 (bar = 2 cm). Note :a: KD527, WT; b: lmpa1/KD527 F1, lmpa; c: lmpa1/KD527 F2 lmpa; d: lmpa1/KD527 F2, WT; e: lmpa1, lmpa

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lmpa1 had shorter el and lower npge than that of KD527 (Table 2). The thousand grain weight (tgw) and yield per plant (ypp) in F2 were significantly higher than those in lmpa plants, indicating that the mutant’s early-like traits could significantly reduce wheat yield. However, the reduction extent to which it causes wheat yield and whether it has other disease resistance still needs further identification.

Photosynthetic assay of lmpa mutants

In order to further understand the effects of mutants on wheat photosynthetic physiology, SPAD-502 Plus and LI-6400 XT were used to measure chlorophyll content (SPAD), stomatal conductance (Cond), and transpiration rate (Tr) of KD527, lmpa1, and their hybrids in the field (Fig. 4).

Fig. 4
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Determination of photosynthetic physiological indexes of KD527 and lmpa1 and their hybrids. Note:a: relative chlorophyll content (SPAD); b: stomatal conductance (mmol·m− 2·s− 1); c: transpiration rate (g·m− 2·h− 1); a,b,c: significant difference at 0.05 level

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Physiological indicators comprising SPAD, Cond and Tr of lmpa1/KD527 F1 were higher than that of lmpa1. However, these indicators in normal plants from F2 population were not significantly different from that of KD527 and were significantly higher than those of lmpa plants. It indicated that the lmpa mutant had a significant effect on wheat photosynthetic physiological process. As a result, lmpa1 affected wheat growth and development so seriously that the plant cannot age normally and premature senescence occurs, which may also be one of the reasons for reducing the thousand grain weight of single plant in wheat.

Chromosomal location of Lmpa1 gene

DNA samples from CS, lmpa1, and mixed samples of normal plants (50) and premature senescent plants (50) in the F2 population of combination lmpa1/CS was used to construct a BSA pool for 660 K SNP array analysis. As a result, 170 polymorphic SNP loci distributed on chromosomes 1A, 2A, 3B, 4B, 5A, 5B respectively were found (Fig. 5) and 164 SNP loci were located on chromosome 5A. It is presumed that the Lmpa1 gene is located on the 5A chromosome of wheat. Based on physical positions of the polymorphic SNPs in Chinese Spring (IWGSCv2.0), a genetic linkage map of SNPs linked with Lmpa1 genes on chromosome 5A were constructed by MapChart (Fig. 6). The results showed that most of the polymorphic SNPs are enriched within a 30-40 Mb region near to the short arm of chromosome 5A, indicating that the LMPA1 gene is highly possible within this region.

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Distribution of polymorphic SNPs on each chromosome

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Fig. 6
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Genetic linkage map of SNPs related to premature aging gene on chromosome 5A. Notes: The red segment indicates the estimated centromeric region. The rectange in green on the right of the chromosome indicates the estimated chromosomal region of the gene Lmpa1

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Screening of candidate genes related to Lmpa1

Based on the results of the 660 K SNP chip, we used the website of JBrowse (http://202.194.139.32/jbrowse-1.12.3-release/?data = Chinese_Spring) to screen related genes in the 30-40 Mb segment of the short arm of wheat 5A chromosome. A total of 120 genes were found within the 30-40 Mb region of chromosome 5A. And 13 genes related to plant growth and development may be the candidate genes associated with Lmpa1 (Table 3).

Table 3 List of Candidate Genes Related to Wheat Early Aging
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Discussions

Premature senescence is a phenomenon that aging of plants physiological and biochemical process in their growth period takes place earlier than that of normal plants. Premature senescence in cereal crops such as wheat, rice and corn, will affect the production of photosynthetic products and their transportation and accumulation into grains and in turn decrease grain yield. Premature aging mutants can be regarded as an important tool to understand premature senescence and benefit elucidating the PCD in plants. Precious researches on premature senescence mainly focus on rice premature senescence mutants and their gene mapping. There are few reports on the creation of wheat premature senescence mutants, the main ones are some types of leaf premature aging. For example, M.M.Li [39] developed 7 polymorphic markers linked to the early leaf senescence gene els1 by applying a large number of segregant analyses and RNA-Seq.

This study reports the lmpa1 mutant deriving from the EMS-induced mutant library in the KD527 background. The mutant with the characteristics of both lesion-like spots and premature senescence, will enrich the wheat premature senescence mutant library and lay the germplasm foundation for further research on the traits related to early senescence in wheat.

In this study, we characterized the mutants lmpa1 and analyzed its photosynthetic physiology. We found that lesion-like spots and premature senescence can significantly affect el, seed setting rate (ssr), tgw and other agronomic traits in wheat. They can reduce the expression of chlorophyll, cause the physiological dysfunction of leaves and decrease the ability of photosynthetic assimilation. As a result, the grain filling time was shortened, the dry matter accumulation of the grain was reduced, the ssr and the tgw were affected, and the yield and quality were damaged. In order to better understand the physiological and biochemical mechanisms of premature senescence, we will refer to B.F.Wang’s [41] methods on premature aging mutants in rice. It is planned to use cell histochemical staining, determination of net photosynthetic rate and photosynthetic pigment content and determination of enzyme activity to find physiological and biochemical indicators related to senescence. In the meantime, cell morphology of mutants will be observed by transmission electron microscope. And the expression of gene related to senescence and hormone content in mutants will be analyzed. The differences in physiological and biochemical, hormone, and cell morphology between premature aging mutants and normal plants will be discussed. It has been reported that rice lesions-like mutant spl41 [42] can enhance resistance to rice bacterial leaf blight. Therefore, disease resistance of lmpa1 should be identified in the future.

In this study, the Lmpa1 was located within 30–40 Mb region on chromosome 5A by using of SNP chip sequencing and BSA analysis. Up to date, there is no report of premature aging gene on the chromosome 5A in wheat. Among the 13 candidate genes, the candidate gene TraesCS5A01G040300.1 encoding a zinc finger protein is similar to the zinc finger transcription factor found in wheat leaf premature senescence mutant m68 [43] and may be associated with premature aging. It is important to screen premature aging genes and explore the causes and mechanisms of premature aging. It was found [44] that water deficit during grain filling period could cause premature senescence of flag leaves, but the senescence process could be delayed by changing hormone concentration of plants. There are many reasons for rice premature aging, for example, the effect of NAC transcription factors on abscisic acid (ABA) [25], the functional impairment of calcium-dependent protein kinase OsCPK12 [28], the deletion of gene fragment [29], the response and regulation of genes related to antioxidant and carbohydrate metabolism [45], and so on. Based on the research experience of rice early senescence, further work should be focused on the cloning and functional verification of candidate gene for premature aging. The effects of premature aging on protein expression, hormone signaling pathways, and gene expressing related to metabolism, will be emphasized in order to further reveal the molecular mechanism of wheat premature senility.

Conclusions

We identified an EMS-mutagenized mutant lmpa1, which derived from elite wheat line KD527 and conferred lmpa. Genetic analysis indicated that the lmpa phenotype of lmpa1 mutant is controlled by a single dominant allele designated as Lmpa1, which affected wheat growth and development and reduced the tgw of single plant in wheat. By applying BSA method and 660 K SNP Chip sequencing, the gene Lmpa1 was tentatively located within the region of 30–40 Mb near to the short arm of chromosome 5A.

Methods and materials

Plant materials

The materials for this study were the bred new wheat line KD527 (from our laboratory), the lmpa1 mutant (isolated from the EMS mutant library of KD527), the F1 and F2 hybrid populations of lmpa1 and KD527, and lmpa1 and F1 and F2 populations crossed by CS. All materials from the Wheat Germplasm Innovation Group of the Henan University of Science and Technology are maintained and planted in Luoyang City, Henan Province, China.

EMS mutagenesis

Seeds were soaked with distilled, deionized water at room temperature for 16 ~ 20 h until seeds completely absorb water and fully swell. Seeds were then treated with 0.3% EMS in phosphate buffer, pH 7 at room temperature for 4 ~ 6 h. The treated seeds were then rinsed in tap water for 12 h, dried for 30mins, and immediately sown in the field.

Screening of lmpa mutants

EMS-mutagenized KD527 seeds were grown with row spacing of 20 cm and plant spacing of 5 cm. Individual plants with lesion-like spots were identified from the M0 population materials and harvested as M1. In the second year, M1 seeds were grown in the field, evaluated for their agronomic traits during growth, and harvested as a single plant as M2. M2 were planted and evaluated on the stability of mutant traits during their growth. From M3 generation on, field investigation was conducted every 7 days. Ten plants were randomly selected from typical mutant lines. The plant height (ph), plant spike number (ppn), panicle length (pl), panicle grain number (pgn) and other agronomic traits were investigated and evaluated. All stable mutant individuals were harvested and threshed to survey ear length (el), thousand-grain weight (tgw), yield per plant (ypp) and other seed traits. The agronomy identification and stability evaluation were carried out continuously in M4 and M5 generations. Finally, the stable mutant lmpa1 was bred in M6 generation.

Construction of segregating population of premature senescence mutants

lmpa1 was first crossed with KD527. The F1 seeds were harvested on a single plant basis and were planted in the field to investigate the lesion-like spot premature senescence trait and other agronomic traits during the growing period. They were harvested as F2 seeds. The lesion-like spot premature senescence trait and other agronomic traits of the individual plants in F2 population were also investigated to determine the genetic mode and genetic effect of the LMPA gene.

lmpa1 was also crossed with CS as described above. Based on the lesion-like spot premature senescence trait of the F2 population, the leaf DNA samples of typical Lmpa and normal individual plants were extracted and combined as a BSA pool for the 660 K SNP array sequencing analysis to locate LMPA gene to specific chromosome. DNA extraction from leaves was performed according to the methods described by Y. Wang et al. [46].

Measurement of chlorophyll content and photosynthesis activities

After wheat heading, the chlorophyll content and photosynthesis activities of lmpa1, KD527 and their hybrid F1 and F2 populations were measured by using chlorophyll meter SPAD-502Plu (Konica Minolta, Japan) and portable photosynthesis meter LI-6400 XT (LI-COR, American) on May 1st and May 18th, 2019, respectively. The measurement methods were strictly in accordance with the operation manuals.

Chromosomal location analysis

Fifty typical lmpa plants and 50 normal plants selected from the lmpa1 x CS F2 population were combined respectively into two DNA BSA pools marked lmpa pool (LP) and normal pool (WT). The 660 K SNP chip analysis was conducted by Zhongyujin Label Biotechnology Co., Ltd. in Beijing, China. Using the DNA pools of CS and lmpa1 as controls, the candidate chromosome segments were estimated by screening significant differences in allele frequencies (AF) of polymorphic sites (SNPs) between the two BSA pools of LP and WT respectively.

Availability of data and materials

The data sets supporting the results of this article are included in this manuscript. The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available in the http://plants.ensembl.org/Triticum_aestivum/Tools/Blast?db=core.

Abbreviations

Lmpa :

Lesion-mimic and premature aging

EMS:

Ethyl methane sulfonate

KD527:

Keda 527

BSA:

Bulked segregation analysis

CS:

Chinese spring

WT:

Wild type

tgw :

Thousand grain weight

llm :

Lesion-like mutants

PCD:

Programmed cell death

BSR-Seq:

Bulked segregant RNA sequencing

ph :

Plant height

fll :

Flag leaf length

el :

Ear length

ngpe :

Number of grains per ear

ypp :

Yield per plant

Cond:

Stomatal conductance

Tr:

Transpiration rate

ssr :

Seed setting rate

ABA:

Abscisic acid

ppn :

Plant spike number

pl :

Panicle length

pgn :

Panicle grain number

LP:

Lmpa pool

AF:

Allele frequencies

SNPs:

Single nucleotide polymorphism sites

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We thank Dr. Fa Cui from Ludong University for his guidance and help in mapping and thank Dr. Zhongguo Xiong from Arizona University of the United States of America for providing language help of writing manuscript.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China-Henan Joint fund (U1304318, U1904108) and Scientific and technological projects of Henan Province of China (202102110022). The funding bodies played no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript.

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Kong, W., Wang, L., Cao, P. et al. Identification and genetic analysis of EMS-mutagenized wheat mutants conferring lesion-mimic premature aging. BMC Genet 21, 88 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-020-00891-x

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