Abstract
Soil salinization poses a huge challenge to the development of agriculture and seriously decreases crop yield and quality. In recent years, grafting has become one of the key agronomic techniques used to enhance plant abiotic stress tolerance. In this study, we found that watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai] grafted onto bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria Standl.) significantly enhanced salt tolerance. Transcriptome analysis revealed that a total of 8462 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified, and the number of up- and down-regulated genes were 3207 and 5255, respectively. The DEGs in the bottle gourd rootstock-grafted plants were mainly involved in carbon metabolism, photosynthesis, and plant hormone signal transduction. Furthermore, proteome analysis identified 28 differently expressed proteins (DEPs) in bottle gourd rootstock-grafted plants under salt stress. These DEPs were closely associated with amino acid and protein synthesis, photosynthesis, mitochondrial metabolism and carbon metabolism, and stress defense. Combined transcriptome and proteome analyses showed that salt stress-responded genes in bottle gourd rootstock-grafted watermelon seedlings were mainly involved in plant hormone signal transduction, photosynthesis, and amino acid synthesis pathways.
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Claim · model-written summary
Bottle gourd rootstock grafting significantly enhanced watermelon salt tolerance.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatuse0 - Treatment
- grafted onto bottle gourde0
- Outcome
- salt tolerancee0
- Direction
- enhancede0
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e0“watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai] grafted onto bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria Standl.) significantly enhanced salt tolerance”
Claim · model-written summary
Transcriptome analysis identified 8462 DEGs, including 3207 up-regulated genes.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Outcome
- differentially expressed genes (DEGs)e0
- Value
- 8462e0
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Verbatim
e0“a total of 8462 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified, and the number of up- and down-regulated genes were 3207 and 5255, respectively”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
The number of up-regulated genes was 3207.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Outcome
- up-e0
- Direction
- up-e0
- Value
- 3207e0
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e0“the number of up- and down-regulated genes were 3207 and 5255, respectively”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
The number of down-regulated genes was 5255.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Outcome
- down-regulated genese0
- Direction
- down-regulatede0
- Value
- 5255e0
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e0“the number of up- and down-regulated genes were 3207 and 5255, respectively”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
DEGs in grafted plants were mainly involved in carbon metabolism, photosynthesis and plant hormone signaling.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- bottle gourd rootstock-graftede0
- Outcome
- carbon metabolism, photosynthesis, and plant hormone signal transductione0
Not reportedDirection
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Verbatim
e0“The DEGs in the bottle gourd rootstock-grafted plants were mainly involved in carbon metabolism, photosynthesis, and plant hormone signal transduction”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Proteome analysis identified 28 DEPs in grafted plants under salt stress.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- salt stresse0
- Outcome
- differently expressed proteins (DEPs)e0
- Value
- 28e0
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e0“proteome analysis identified 28 differently expressed proteins (DEPs) in bottle gourd rootstock-grafted plants under salt stress”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
The DEPs were associated with amino acid and protein synthesis, photosynthesis, mitochondrial and carbon metabolism, and stress defense.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Gene
- DEPse0
- Outcome
- amino acid and protein synthesis, photosynthesis, mitochondrial metabolism and carbon metabolism, and stress defensee0
Not reportedDirection
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Verbatim
e0“These DEPs were closely associated with amino acid and protein synthesis, photosynthesis, mitochondrial metabolism and carbon metabolism, and stress defense”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Salt-responsive genes were mainly involved in hormone signaling, photosynthesis and amino acid synthesis pathways.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatuse0
- Gene
- salt stress-responded genese0
- Outcome
- plant hormone signal transduction, photosynthesis, and amino acid synthesis pathwayse0
Not reportedDirection
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Verbatim
e0“salt stress-responded genes in bottle gourd rootstock-grafted watermelon seedlings were mainly involved in plant hormone signal transduction, photosynthesis, and amino acid synthesis pathways”
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