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Rapid High Throughput Amylose Determination in Freeze Dried Potato Tuber Samples
Published on: October 14, 2013
Combined transcriptomic and proteomic analysis of cold stress induced sugar accumulation and heat shock proteins
Qiong Lin1, Yajing Xie1, Wenqiang Guan2
1Key Laboratory of Agro-products Quality and Safety Control in Storage and Transport Process, Ministry of Agriculture/Institute of Food Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Plant species differ greatly in their ability to acclimatise to and survive, cold stress. Normally, potato tubers are stored at low temperatures (below 10 °C) to delay sprouting. In this research, combined transcriptomic and proteomic analysis was conducted on potato tubers stored at 15 °C, 4 °C and 0 °C to investigate the mechanism of cold responses during postharvest storage. Results showed that soluble sugars were accumulated under low temperatures, regulating by granule-bound starch synthase 1, beta-amylase, invertase inhibitor and fructokinase. In addition, fifteen heat shock proteins (Hsps), including three Hsp70s, two Hsp80s, one Hsp90, one Hsp100 and eight small Hsps, were induced by low temperatures, which may act individually or synergistically to prevent physiological or cellular damage from cold stress in postharvest potato tubers. This research provided general information of sugar accumulation and defense response in potato tuber under cold storage.
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