French marigold essential oil affected DNA methylation in potato
2022
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Authors:
Šajkunić, SanjaDragićević, Milan
Milutinović, Milica
Stupar, Sofija
Tubić, Ljiljana
Savić, Jelena
Devrnja, Nina
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Milutinović, MilicaDocument Type:
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© 2022 by the Serbian Plant Physiology Society
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Different stressors from the environment can prime defense and enable enhanced responses
to subsequent stress exposure. It has been proposed that induced epigenetic changes, on the
level of DNA and histones, could be involved in this response. Plant essential oils (EOs) have shown
promising prospects as novel priming inducers. Still, little is known about their potential to induce
epigenetic alternations. In this study, we examined the effect of the French marigold (Tagetes patula
L.) EO on DNA methylation of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Potato plants were exposed to
EO for 3 consecutive days for 8h each day, and samples were collected 10 days after EO removal.
Whole-Genome Bisulfite Sequencing (WGBS) was used to identify differentially methylated (DM)
DNA sequences among control and EO-exposed samples. Promoters, exons, introns, 3‘UTR, 5‘UTR,
and intergenic regions, each at a differential methylation ratio 0.1 to 0.25 between control and
treated samples were analyzed. The average methylation level of the whole genome was 72.29%
and 69.23% in control and exposed samples, respectively. Differential DNA methylation has predominantly
occurred in the CG context compared to CHH and CHG. In general, hypomethylated
sequences outnumbered hypermethylated ones. Functional annotation clustering of differentially
methylated genes distinguished 6 affected KEGG pathways – endocytosis (sot04144) and protein
processing in the endoplasmatic reticulum (sot04141) among others. The expression of DM genes
associated with these pathways, as well as different defense responses in potato (GO:0006952),
will be analyzed subsequently in potato plants challenged with different abiotic and biotic stress
conditions.
Keywords:
DNA methylation; potato; French marigold; essential oil; primingFunding / projects:
- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200007 (University of Belgrade, Institute for Biological Research 'Siniša Stanković') (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200007)
In:
- Milutinović M, editor. Book of Abstracts: 4th International Conference on Plant Biology and 23rd SPPS Meeting; 2022 6-8; Belgrade, Serbia. Belgrade: Serbian Plant Physiology Society; 2022. p. 71.